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Decorating
Children's Rooms
Painting Furniture
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Section 3 Rating 2.5 -moderate
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Third in a
series of 3 tutorials in the
Decorating
Children's Rooms series, hand painted
furniture completes the room by
adding the final touches to
furniture and room details.
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Adding decorative features, like these painted
scrolls, to both walls and furniture create a charming and
consistent overall theme.
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This hand painted armoire with
decorative scrolls and soft,
rag-rolled panels, combine to complete
this charming child's bedroom. This touch of sophistication insures
the child can grow up in this room
well into their teens without
outgrowing this decorative style.
In Series 1,
painted stripe treatment,
you learn how to create softly
rag rolled and striped
yellow walls.
Series 2, adding
hand-painted
decorative scrolls, allows you
to further embellish the room
with decorative motifs.
Series 3, painting furniture,
brings the room together by
adding the final touches to
furniture and room details.
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Step 1: Preparing the furniture
Lay drop cloths on floor. Use painters
tape and mask off area to be painted.
Dilute some white latex paint with
water in a bucket. You want to ‘white
wash’ the center panels and drawer
fronts of your armoire. Brush on
thinned paint and soften with a rag.
Allow to dry.
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Step 2: Creating a panel texture
On your paper plate mix some Cadmium
Yellow with some Floetrol to make a
yellow glaze. Loosely brush this over
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Step 3: Ragging on your texture
With a dry rag blot the surface to create a
rag texture. It should be soft and airy.
Work on one panel at a time. Allow to dry
completely (1-2 hrs.)
When dry remove all tape. Your armoire after stage one.
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Creating your scroll pattern |
Step 4: Creating the scroll pattern
On a piece of tracing paper sketch out your
scroll design so it fits, and is in scale
with the panel you are working on. For the
opposite panel simply flip the tracing over
and you have a mirror image to use.
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Step 5: Transferring your scroll
pattern
On another piece of tracing paper, take
the flat edge of your pencil and fill
the page with graphite from your pencil.
You are creating your own
transfer
paper. Tape the scroll pattern to the
panel surface and lay the transfer paper
underneath. With a sharp pencil trace
over your design. This should leave an
exact image on the furniture panel.
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Step 6: Painting your scroll pattern
Mix Raw Seine with Raw Umber to make your
outline color. With your No. 4 artists brush
paint over your transfer lines to create
your scroll. Allow to dry and remove excess
pencil lines with an eraser.
Step 7: Painting your scroll pattern on
the drawer fronts
Follow the same process. Sketch out one side
of the scroll pattern, then flip it to
create a symmetrical image. Transfer the
pattern to the surface using your home made
transfer paper. Mix Raw Seine with Raw Umber
to make your outline color. With your No. 4
artists brush paint over your transfer lines
to create your scroll. Allow to dry. Remove
excess pencil lines with an eraser.
Step 8: Filling in your pattern
Fill in the centers of your scroll pattern
with white paint.
Step 9: High lighting your pattern
Use Raw Umber and add an accent edge on one
side only of your scroll. This creates a
‘shadow’ line and gives the motif depth.
Step10: Protecting your artwork
Brush on a Satin sheen latex varnish over
the center panels and drawer fronts for
added protection. Clean up with warm, soapy
water.
The completed room!
Visit the other
features in this series:
Series 1
Painted stripe treatment.
Create softly
rag rolled and striped
yellow walls.
Series 2
Adding
hand-painted decorative scrolls,
allows you to
further embellish
the room with decorative motifs.
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