Garden Art on Pallets

                         
Painting on wood pallets..........

                Remember our Christmas in July and we worked on these cute Santa's.

Did you notice that on the other side of the table I was working on a boxwood .

I used the same process painting as we did here on the other pallets before painting the Santa faces.

Then I drew the planter first. Then above the planter a large circle for the starting of the boxwood.

I used black and brown craft paint and painted in my planter. Then added a bit of orange and brown and hi-lighted the edge of the pot.

Next I took a golden yellow for my tag and added a bit of green to the edge of the tag.

I covered my circle with a moss green then proceeded with a flat brush and added other greens.

Lake Girl Paints gives a great tutorial. 

I continued till I felt that this was the look I wanted and lastly added some strokes of yellow.

I used a sharp sharpie and wrote BOXWOOD on the tag.

     
                                                  This was also a fun project.

                                               Why don't you give it a try.


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Pallet Art ..Christmas in July..

                  Pallet Art and Christmas in July OH MY!!!

When visiting  Lake Girl Paints and seeing  all the lovely painted images on pallets,
                             A light bulb went off!!! 


       You know the kind of feeling when that happens.

I have pallets...I have folk art paints and crafter's paint. I can print off a graphic from Graphics Fairy....


                ***Note Lake Girl Paints are all hand drawn*****


Sooooooo...... Christmas in July 

So this is how we started.......

Off to the hubby's stash of wood, broken down skids, and I picked out a few...

Hubby glued and screwed them together to look like this.

Then we gathered all of our supplies and headed outside to the gazebo.

Beautiful summers day..so why not enjoy this time with my grand daughter  painting on pallets.

First I painted the wood with black and brown and a little red mixed together.

Once that dried I added my white paint with this large paint brush and dry brushed on the paint.

                     *NOTE THE CUTE SNOWMAN PLATE TO GO WITH THE THEME*


I loved the idea of leaving the edges black.
               Let them dry and then the fun begins.

We decided to print off a Santa image from Graphics Fairy and then used our transfer paper to trace the image onto our wood.

We started from the middle and started painting the face in then the mustache , beard etc.

                                Left the eyes till last.

 TIP : If you work from the center out your arm won't land in the paint.

What fun I had with my  grand daughter. She is a born artist. It didn't take her long to catch on how to 
folk art and blend in colours.

Did I mention that she is only TEN YEARS OLD!!

                               Such fun and memories for a summers day!!!



Did you notice the piece of art on the left ....a topiary  in the making......

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