Rustic Pumpkin 🎃

Today, we're diving into a fun fall art project perfect for the season - creating a textured pumpkin on an 8x8 canvas using paint, decoupage, and glass! We'll start by prepping the canvas with rustic decoupage paper and adding a colorful, textured background. We'll embellish it with glass details like clear vase nips and crushed glass for that extra sparkle!

Apply a coat of Mod Podge to your 8x8 canvas and lay your rustic decoupage paper on top. Smooth it down with your hands and dry it with a heat tool. Add another coat of Mod Podge on top to seal the background. Tear off any excess paper and dry again.

Paint the edges of your canvas with Americana Red Spice. I'll also blend in Traditional Burnt Umber for a more messy and textured look. Dry with your heat tool. I'll come in with a 1/4-inch brush and add some spots of Spa Blue paint on the edges too. 

I want to create a surface for my pumpkin to sit on. About an inch above the bottom of your canvas, use a sponge brush to add a line of Traditional Burnt Umber. I'll also blend in some Spa Blue with a palette knife. Dry with a heat tool. I'll use my palette knife to swipe on Spa Blue and Red Spice to the background too. 

Grab your tracer, tape it to your canvas, place graphite paper underneath, and trace your pumpkin with a stylus. 

Paint your pumpkin with a base coat of Bleached Sand, painting each section as you go. Paint a second coat and dry with a heat tool.

Next, we'll add some more colors to our pumpkin one section at a time! I'm going to use the back of my palette knife to layer on FolkArt Succulent, Bleached Sand, Spa Blue, and white. Dry with a heat tool.

Using the corner of your paintbrush, blend Traditional Burnt Umber along the side of each pumpkin section to create shadows and dimension. Use your graphic pen to add some short strokes around your pumpkin for more detail.

Next, let's add glass! I cut glass nips from a clear glass vase that I will be using to layer onto my pumpkin. I have a glass cap stem from a local glass blower that I will place on the top of my pumpkin. I'll also use Moss Green vitrigraph around my stem to create some vines. Finally, I'll add crushed clear glass to the bottom of my canvas.

We're going to elevate our canvas using blocks. Mix 1 oz total of ArtResin and stir gently for three minutes. Pour the resin onto your glass and canvas and use your gloved fingers or brush to spread it over the entire canvas. 

Use a heat gun to pop your bubbles. Keep your heat moving at all times! 

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