Painting Brick

 From Storybook Cottage  

 

First we take the resin, which I believe was primed prior to class with a basic grey primer straight from a spray can.

Our first step is to take Raw Linen or any similar color (Oatmeal, etc) and with the paint slightly thinned with water, paint the entire piece.



 
   The next layer is Brown Iron Oxide. For a very enlarged photo and to be able to better see the details, click on the thumbnail photo. Again, slightly thinning the paint with water, paint each individual "brick". The color variation you can see is entirely done with the amount of thinning of the paint.
  To create a more mottled look, especially since we want a more Tudor brick look (bricks were not factory made and were very uneven in color, density, texture and even size because of the firing methods used), some of the bricks are highlighted with Hippo Grey, a few with Dark Burnt Umber, and few less with Tangerine or Orange. The colors used are not an exact science and anything close to these shades will  yield almost identical results. All of these were applied as washes as well. The brick portion is now "done".
   Painting the clay top, we used Toffee Brown, using the same technique of laying down a wash first and varying the color by different amounts of dilution. Some of the mottled appearance is created by taking diluted Dark Burnt Umber and applying it as if soot has created a layer of light gray over the toffee color of the "clay".

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Laura Isabella laura@sylvan.com San Jose, CA
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