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What you will Need:


One old milk bottle
Tracing paper, graphite paper,
pencil, stylus, masking tape.

Off-white or white flat (Latex) wall paint.

Old toothbrush for spattering.
2" foam brushes
Delta-Perm-enamel, clear gloss glaze



DecoArt-American Acrylic Paints:
Cow:
Antique White Light Buttermilk
Soft Black Black
Country Red Rookwood Red
Gooseberry Pink


Wreath:
Forest Green Black Forest Green
Olive Green Burnt Umber
Tomato Red Black Plum
Antique White



DecoArt-Americana- Dazzling Metallics:
Emperor's gold



Jar preparation: Using the 2" foam brush, basecoat the jar with the flat
wall paint. Allow to dry for at least eight hours, then apply a second coat
of wall paint.This will dry much faster than the first coat.
If desired, use a hair dryer to help speed up this process.
When dry, apply one or two coats more of
the flat wall paint. When this is completely dry you need to basecoat the bottle with Antique White.
Transfer the design onto the bottle.


Basecoat the cow body with Light Buttermilk. Black spots are painted in with Soft Black.
The heart is basecoated in with Country Red and shaded around the edges with Rookwood Red.
Cow utters: basecoat with Gooseberry pink.
Add lines of soft black and Light Buttermilk to bottom of cow tail.
If you don't want to put the wreath on him, now is the time to spatter with an old
tooth brush.
Spatter first with Light Buttermilk and then spatter again with Soft Black.
Float or don't float, Burnt Umber all around outside of cow for dimenson!


Wreath directions:
Basecoat in holly leaves with Forest Green. Highlight one side of each leaf with Olive green. Shade other side of leaf with Black Forest Green. Add vein line in each leaf with Black Forest Green.
Holly berries, basecoat with Tomato Red. Outline with Black Plum and then highlight each with light buttermilk.
Band around cows neck, basecoat with Antique White, shade around berries and leaves with Burnt Umber.
Cow Bell: basecoat with Emperor's Gold. Shade around edges with Burnt Umber.

Go to section about spattering.

To finish: with a foam brush apply the Delta perm-enamel Clear Gloss Glaze.
Allow to dry. Add a raffia bow or leave plain!


By Cindy Trombley copyright 2001

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