BEADED PUMPKIN WITH LEAVES
Designer: Bob Moreni
SUPPLIES
Form
- CD027 Large Beaded Pumpkin
- CD1073 4 Leaf Designs Press Tool
Colors
- SS-3 Honey Toast
- SS-19 Country Sage
- SS-45 Buttermilk
- SS-57 Accent Green
- SS-138 Flat Black
- SS-198 Chocolate
- SS-211 Orange Rust
- SS-194 Medium Taupe
- SS-234 Medium Mocha
- SS-210 Orange
- SS-276 Forest Green
- MM-106 Steel Metallic
- MM-305 Rapid Rust
Decorating Accessories
- AC-502 Matte Sealer
- MM-600 Spritzer Cap
- Basecoat Brush
- Various Drybrush’s
- RB-116 #6 Round
Miscellaneous Accessories
- Foam Plates – Aluminum Foil for Palette
- Paper Towels
- Water Bowl
- Clean-Up Tool
- Sponge
- Low Fire White Clay
- XActo Knife
- 20 Gauge Copper Wire
INSTRUCTIONS
- Cast the mold in usual manner. While in the leather stage, punch 4 holes around the bottom of the stem for the copper wire later. Allow to dry. Clean the greenware with a Clean-Up Tool.
- Roll out some Low Fire Whit Clay. Take the Maple Leaf Press Tool and press out 3 or more leaves. Trim with XActo Knife then give a slight bend to the leaf to make it look real. Add a small piece of clay with a hole in it to the back of the leaf to attach later. Clean the leaves with a damp brush. Allow to dry!
- Bisque fire the pumpkin and the leaves to cone 04.
- Using a Basecoat Brush, basecoat the whole pumpkin and stem with 1-2 coats of SS-198 Chocolate. Basecoat the leaves with SS-138 Flat Black. Allow to dry!
- Using a Drybrush, drybrush the pumpkin with SS-211 Orange Rust then with SS-210 Orange. Highlight with SS-3 Honey Toast.
- Drybrush the stem with SS-234 Medium Mocha then highlight with SS-194 Medium Taupe.
- Drybrush the nubs with SS-276 Forest Green then with SS-57 Accent Green. Highlight lightly with SS-19 Country Sage then with SS-45 Buttermilk.
- Apply 1 coat of MM-106 Steel Metallic to the leaves. When dry apply a 2nd coat of MM-106 Steel Metallic to the leaves, while this coat is still wet apply MM-305 Rapid Rust to the stem and leaves. Allow to dry!
- Shade the deep crevices of the pumpkin with SS-198 Chocolate. Allow to dry!
- Apply 1-2 coats of AC-502 Matte Sealer to the piece.
- DO NOT FIRE.
- Attach the leaves with the Copper Wire stringing it through the holes in the pumpkin and the back of the leaf. Add some wire curly cues.