Panto. Painting Woodland Benches. (December 2013).

Lois and I was given the task to paint 2 benches we had, which were already made, to look like they had been in the woods for many years. They were to look moss covered.
First we gave each bench a base coat of brown paint then dry brushed black paint over the brown to tone it down.

 

We tried stippling green paint onto the benches using sponges that had bits cut out from them but after randomly covering the benches all over we was not happy with the effect it gave. After consulting with the Tutor we decided to paint over the green and we started again. This time we stippled using a paintbrush that we had tied string around the bristles to separate them (see picture below). We used a couple varying shades of green on the benches and this time we didn't cover the whole bench with stippled green but just around the edges to give a more authentic moss covered look. We were both much happier with the finished effect.

 

 

The middle top picture above shows the bench covered all over with stippled green paint that we were not happy with.