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Author: Leslie_Pease, Contributing Editor
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| Decorative painting takes time and patience. The most important thing to do is to have fun. I would like to share with you, my technique and learning experience for decorative painting with acrylics, on a mailbox.
The mailbox I have chosen to paint is an old, rusted pale blue mailbox with a missing handle, that I wanted to recycle. Since it will be for my home and our last name is Pease, I wanted to paint fun vegetables with LOTS of peas. As you read this article, you will see photos and a paragraph helping you understand what I am doing. Because this demonstration is about painting a mailbox and not a "How-To" on painting vegetables, I didn't include the photographs for all the layers for each vegetable painted. |
| I apologize for some of the poor quality in my photos, but I hope you will enjoy the article as much as I did creating it! |
 | These are the supplies I used. Unfortunately, I don't have a picture of the mailbox in the original poor condition.
My palette for this project was limited to these colors: * White * Stove Paint Flat Black * Raw Sienna * Burnt Sienna * Ultramarine Blue * Hookers Green Hue Permanent * Cadmium Yellow Medium * Cadmium Yellow Light * Cadmium Red Medium * Naphtol Crimson Polyurethane The brushes I used are old and worn out brushes, ranging from round to flat, and one new liner brush for the detail work. |
| My first step was to make the blue mailbox black. I used a paint that is used on wood stoves. Learning the hard way, I DO NOT recommend using this method. It's best to start off with a mailbox which is the color you want for a background.
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