Dry Brushing
The technique of using a dry brush with a minimal amount of paint in it to add depth, shading and highlighting details to a piece of bisque or plaster. The brush is dipped in paint and using paper most of the paint is removed from the brush.
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1. Choose a piece with a lot of texture. (We chose this eagle)
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2. Paint the piece a matte or flat black being sure to cover the entire piece.
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3. Take a dry brush with stiff round bristles and dip the tip into the color paint you want the base of your piece to be (we chose a medium brown) and then wipe the paint off onto a piece of paper by moving your brush up and down, side to side across the paper removing most of the paint from the brush.
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4. Run the brush over the piece evenly trying not to get the paint into the depressions and detail lines. This will provide a base for the rest of the painting. We left the base black as we are going to use a different color scheme for that.
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5. Repeating step 3 with the color white we painted the head and tail of the eagle.
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6. Next we used a bronze color and dry brushed the wings leaving the tips of the feathers alone.
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7. Top view.
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8. We then dry brushed the entire base gray, and then added 2 shades of green to create a rocky look.
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9. We painted the beak, feet and eyes yellow using a small detail brush and then added black pupils to the eyes with a tiny detail brush.
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All done!
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