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"Creating a Tree Bark Effect"
  • 6" sonotube
  • Sawdust
  • ¼" ethafoam®
  • ½" sq. pine moulding
  • Off Broadway
  • Tough Prime
  • FlexBond


How to do it ?

1 Substrate is ½ of 6" diameter sonotube®.

2 Base coat sonotube with tinted Tough Prime.

3 Make bark texture: Mix course sawdust with Off Broadway Umber/FlexBond solution (use 1 part of Off Broadway to 2 parts Flexbond).

4 Apply sawdust mix on sonotube to imitate tree bark (keeping vertical feel).

5 Let dry thouroughly.

6 Two color scumble base coat.

7 Multiple spatters over entire surface.

8 Drop in bark shadow color to accentuate deep texture.

9 Dry brush light selectively over surface.

10 Dry brush mossy green selectively over surface.

 

Tree bark

 

Some of the products used in this project



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