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REQUIREMENTS
PALETTE
Jo Sonya
Gouche
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This is a melted polystyrene coffee cup. Please be warned
that if the cup should catch fire, the fumes are toxic, so please take great
care!
Preheat oven to 220C.
As cups melt and cool VERY quickly, it is advisable to only do one at a
time. Place cup upside down on tray and watch carefully. Once shrunk to desired
size, quickly remove from oven and shape brim. Speed is essential. Once cool,
they can be painted with acrylics and varnished if a gloss is desired. I painted
the exterior of the hat with Carbon Black and underneath brim with Burgundy.
Prepare light globe by spaying lightly with Krylon.
Allow to dry.
Basecoat solidly with Carbon Black
Apply line drawing. As it can be tricky transferring to
a curved surface, you may be easier to cut pattern out and snip around outline
to allow it to curve.
Paint face and shirt Warm White.
With Carbon Black on tip of round, dot in eyes and
buttons on shirt. Add highlights with Tit. White
With Burnt sienna, paint inside of beak, adding a
little Napthol crimson dirty brush to paint lower. This will add depth. Outline
beak in Cad Yellow Medium, forming peak between eyes. Highlight top beak with
Warm white.
Use No 3 round to block in feet with Burnt Sienna. Add
Cad Yellow Medium lines for webbing. Highlight with Tit white.
Using round, paint in bow tie with Burgundy. Extend
around back of globe to give neck. Mix a little Black with Burgundy, sideload
flat and shade around centre knot, lower edges and to separate bow from band.
Highlight by floating Warm white. Wash over with diluted Burgundy if highlight
is too bright.
TO COMPLETE
Use wire to wind around the metal part of the light globe, allowing enough length to create loop to protrude through hat and create hanger. Continue to wind around metal to secure end.
Punch
hole in top of hat, and thread loop through, apply glue to inside of hat and
push it firmly down to cover the metal.
Varnish
as desired. Hang and enjoy!!
