Scarecrow Face Plate

Sep 4, 2025
2 min read

Updated: Sep 9, 2025

Paint a festive Scarecrow Face Plate with textured brush techniques, bright fall colors, and detailed features. Step-by-step instructions make it easy to create a charming seasonal design.

Supplies

Favorite Plate

Round Brush

Liner Brush

Towel

Pencil

Marker

Tissue

Colors

Bisq-Otti

What A Yolk

Mocha-Chino

Orange Crush

Lime Ricky

Red Blaze

Polar Bear or Not Quite White

Black Lab

Blazing Saddle

Instructions

First with a pencil, trace your template onto your tissue paper and place your tissue paper with the template on it onto your plate and center your design. Use the water-based marker to re-trace the template of the hat onto the plate. The marker will bleed through the tissue paper onto the plate. The marker will burn off in the kiln.
Then apply 3 coats of Bisq-Otti to the entire plate except for the hat part. Then use 3 coats of Blazing Saddle to paint the hat.
Next, take a crumpled-up towel and dab it into some Mocha-Chino and then onto a paint tile until you get a lighter/balanced amount of paint on the towel. Then dab onto the Bisq-Otti to create a textured look for the scarecrow’s face. Add 3 little crosshatch marks with Mocha-Chino with a liner brush to the scarecrow’s face randomly.
Once everything you’ve painted so far becomes dry, gently trace the rest of your template onto the plate. Apply What A Yolk to the hair strands using a writer bottle or liner brush. Then apply 2-3 coats of Lime Ricky to each iris of the scarecrow’s eyes, and to the lefthand side patch on the hat. Use Red Blaze for the righthand side hat patch. Apply 2-3 coats of Orange Crush to the scarecrow’s nose.
Use some watered-down Black Lab to shade the edges of the hat and seams. Now use a writer bottle or liner brush with Black Lab and fill in the scarecrows’ pupils and paint on the wiggly smile.
Use a liner brush with Black Lab to outline the eyes, nose, and hair strands. Add eyelashes to the eyes and little stitches to the hat and outline of the nose (reference the photo). Once the black dries, add 2 dots to each eye for highlights using the hard end of your liner brush (the more you dab the paint off - the smaller the dots get).