Countryside Afternoon
By Marie-Lou Denis
Surface
Your natural nails or white press-on nails. You can get those at Sally’s beauty.
*Editor's Note- Alternate surface suggestion. It occurred to me that Marie Lou's designs would be great painted on miniature wood pieces or even thimbles.
Palette
Decoart Americana acrylic paint:
DA240 Cool White
DAO64 Burnt Umber
DAO93 Raw Sienna
DA08 Yellow Ochre
DA196 Tangelo Orange
DA132 Hauser Medium Green
DAO83 Black Forest Green
DAO21 Crimson Tide
DAO10 Cadmium Yellow
DA305 Whispering Turquoise
DAO42 Baby Blue
DA270 Ocean Blue
Brushes
Princeton Select Short Liner 18/0
Princeton Select Flat shader #6
Loew Cornell Angular brush ¼
Loew Cornell Crescent 1/8
Other materials
Paper palette
Dotting tool
Makeup sponge
White polish (Sally Hansen “White On”)
Base & Topcoat
Acetone
Preparation
Start off by washing your hands thoroughly. Then either apply your press-on nails or your base coat nail polish. Let it dry fully and apply 2 coats of white polish on all your nails.
Directions
Base: Paint all your nails with Whispering Turquoise and the Flat Shader. Try to do as few brush strokes as possible.
Mountains: Paint triangles of variant height with Baby Blue and the Short Liner. Make sure a good portion of the sky is still visible. You don’t need to bother with the bottom of the nail since it’s going to be covered in future steps. Shade the left sides of the mountains with a mix of equal parts Baby Blue and Ocean Blue.
Grass: Paint the grass in a stippling motion with the Crescent 1/8 and Hauser Medium Green. Repeat this step at the bottom of the nail with Black Forest Green.
Sky: With your dotting tool and Cadmium Yellow, paint a sun on your ring finger on the right side. Using some diluted Cool White, do the same stippling motion as in the last step to create fluffy clouds.
Trees: Using the Short Liner and Black Forest Green, paint the trees. Leave space in between each branch to recreate this look. Fluff out the branches by doing a stippling motion over them too.
Colorful trees: Using Cadmium Yellow, Tangelo Orange, and Crimson Tide, paint trees with the Crescent 1/8. Try to alternate colors so there are never two trees of the same color next to each other. This will create a beautiful random effect. See below.
Trunks: With the Short Liner and Burnt Umber, add trunks to all the trees. Repeat step 5.1 so that the branches seem to be under the trees’ leaves. See above.
Trail: Paint a trail with the Short Liner and Cool White. Add a little bit of Yellow Ochre to give some depth to the trail. Make the trail follow along on all nails so that when you hold them together it’s seamless.
Tiny Cottage: Paint a rectangle with a pentagon on the side using the Short Liner and Yellow Ochre to create the base of the cottage. Paint a parallelogram with Crimson Tide and the Short Liner for the roof. Outline everything in Burnt Umber using the Short Liner. Add a door and windows with Yellow Ochre and Burnt Umber using the Short Liner.
Finish
Apply a Matte Top Coat to seal in your design. If you accidentally got some nail polish on your skin, use your Loew Cornell Angular brush ¼ dipped in acetone (or nail polish remover) and clean up your cuticles.
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