How to Paint a Decorative Twig Design

Carter chose acrylic craft paint for the branches and leaves because it delivers good color intensity and he needed only small quantities. Then he thinned it 4-to-1 with water to achieve a soft, semitranslucent line. "You want it sort of sheer so that you don't get a solid brushstroke," he explains.

Paint Palette
Starting with walls painted Benjamin Moore's Woodlawn Blue, decorative painter Brian Carter chose two tones of FolkArt's acrylic craft paint for the branches: Barn Wood for the twigs and Metallic Pure Gold for the leaves.