QUILTED SNOWMAN GOURD
ORNAMENT
By: Tammy Brown
Gourds from the Garden
This is a not so quick ornament, but very easy to do. You can change your colors if you
wish by using red, white, blue theme and it would look great too.
PALETTE
Decoart Americana Paints
Lamp Black Dark Plum
Holly Green Hauser Green Dark
Tomato Red Raw Sienna
Antique White Burnt Orange
Light Buttermilk Asphaltum
Nuteral Gray Buttermilk
Titanium White
BRUSHES
Lowel-Cornell Brushes were used
18/0 liner brush Debbie Mitchell 1/4 stippler brush
1/4 Angular Brush dry make-up blush & q-tip
#2, #6 , #8 Filbert Brushes
OTHER SUPPLIES
Nice cleaned banana gourd transfer paper
Sand paper pencil
Thread
Decoart Duraclear satin varnish
LET'S PAINT
Draw a line around the gourd to seperate the face from the toboggan, also draw random squares on
the top portion to make the quilt squares. Base the facial area with light buttermilk using the #6
filbert brush. Let dry and repeat. Transfer facial pattern if needed.
Begin coloring in your quilted blocks on the toboggan. Use the 1/4 angular brush. I began with holly
green, then tomato red, antique white, and light buttermilk. Some colors will need two coats.
The shading is as follows using the 1/4 angular brush:
Holly green shaded with hauser green dark
Tomato red shaded with dark plum
Lt. Buttermilk shaded with Raw Sienna
Antique White shaded with Asphalthum
Using your 18/0 liner brush and lamp black paint the stitching on the quilt squares. Clean the brush
and paint the snowflakes on the red squares using light buttermilk.
Using the stippler brush dipped into Nuteral gray, stipple the fur trim. Then shade under it with raw
sienna and the #4 filbert brush. Go back and stipple over the grey with buttermilk, let dry then
stipple with titanium white.
Paint the eyes and mouth with the 18/0 liner brush and lamp black. Paint the nose with same cleaned
brush and burnt orange. Add highlights in the eyes and mouth with light buttermilk with the liner
brush. Shade the lower part of the nose with asphaltum using the #2 filbert brush. Shade on the
underside of each eye, under the nose, and under the mouth with #2 filbert and raw sienna.
Rub the q-tip into the make-up blush and swirl on the blush of the cheeks. Add a dot of light
buttermilk to the top of each cheek.
Make a hole on each side at the top of the gourd for the thread hanger. I use an old ice pick, but a
drill works well too. Insert the thread through the holes and tie.
Apply varnish using the #6 filbert, let dry and repeat.
Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!
Tammy
