Accent your table with dolls made of clothespins in the thoroughly modern colors of Americana® Acrylics.

SUPPLIES

• water container
• palette or plastic plate
• paper towels
• tracing paper
• transfer paper
• #10 flat brush
• #8 round brush
• ballpoint pen
• six no-roll clothespins

INSTRUCTIONS

NOTES:

Allow to dry between painting steps.

1. Using #10 flat brush, paint all six clothespins using Buttermilk.
2. Copy pattern for clothespins onto tracing paper. Center the tracing paper on the clothespins. Using a ballpoint pen, go over the pattern onto clothespins with graphite transfer paper underneath.
3. Using Desert Turquoise, paint the shorts on dolls #3 and #4. (See small photo for color placement; dolls are numbered left to right.)
4. Using a #8 round brush with Bright Yellow, paint the top and bottom of bathing suit on doll #5 and the top of doll #4.
5. Using a #8 round brush with Cherry Red, paint the top on doll #3 and the bathing suit of doll #2.
6. Using a #8 round brush with Royal Fuchsia, paint the top and bottom of doll #6.
7. Using a #8 round brush with Sour Apple, paint the bathing suit of doll #1.
8. Using #8 round brush, with Snow White, outline the edge of the bathing suit on doll #5. Place vertical stripes on doll #6. Paint a vertical stripe across the middle of the bathing suit and paint dots on top half of the bathing suit on doll #1. Paint dots on the bathing suit of doll #2.
9. Using #8 round brush with Graphite, paint dots for eyes on all dolls. Paint the hair on dolls #3 and #5. Paint the pockets and the button on the shorts of doll #3.
10. Using #8 round brush with Bright Yellow, paint the hair on dolls #1 and #6. Paint dots for buttons on the shorts on doll #4.
11. Using #8 round brush with Dark Chocolate, paint the hair on dolls #2 and #4.

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