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ACRYLIC
STEP 2: With Medium Red Mix in brush, sideload with Vermilion. Stroke the back three petals again. Reload and side load again in Vermilion and stroke in each petal start- ing with the center petal and then side center petals. STEP 3: With Light Red Mix in brush, add the inside of the forward-reaching petals.
STEP 4: Add Dark Red Mix on the reaching petals. To give further definition, if required, load a bit of DecoArt Extender and Blending Medium in brush and sideload in a bit of Vermilion to reinforce the highlights of the cen- ter petals. If required, do the same reinforcement with a brush with extender side loaded in Medium Red Mix or Dark Red Mix to reinforce edges of the reaching petal caps.
BIRD
STEP 1: Basecoat head, neck, and tail feathers with a brush mix of Dark Blue Mix and Light Blue Mix. With the tip of a round brush or using a detailer or liner brush, add small feathery strokes of Light Blue Mix and Dark Blue Mix on tail. Add small C-strokes on collar area of neck using dirty blue brush sideloaded in Light Purple Mix and some using Dark Blue Mix. Add outer feathery strokes us- ing Medium Red Mix.
STEP 2: Paint first oval stroke using Light Red Mix. STEP 3: Using a red dirty brush, sideload in Vermilion.
Paint the next inside oval starting at the bottom cen- ter, continuing around to the top of the oval, pressing the bristles to cover the thickest part of the oval and lightening up on the brush to end at the bottom of the oval. Clean brush. Dress brush in DecoArt Extender and Blending Medium and Medium Pink Mix. Work the paint into the bristles, making sure the paint is wet – you do not want the paint to drag on the surface. Sideload in Dark Pink Mix. Paint next pink oval with Dark Pink Mix on the outer edge. Clean brush. Load the brush in Deco- Art Extender and Blending Medium and the Light Purple Mix, working paint into bristles. Sideload in Dark Purple Mix. Paint the next oval with the Dark Pink Mix edge of the brush on the inside of the oval.
STEP 4: Final small oval is painted using the Medium Yellow Mix tipped with Raw Sienna.
STEP 5: When dry, analyze the look of the bird feathers. If required to sharpen or deepen/lighten the edges of the ovals/feathers, sideload a brush with DecoArt Extender and Blending Medium and the color you want to sharpen, and lightly refine the edges of the strokes. Dress brush in Dark Blue Mix and sideload in Dark Purple Mix. Add ruf- fles at bottom of neck. Float Light Blue Mix on the bottom edge of the bird’s head and neck, and Dark Blue Mix at the
top of bird’s neck. Add a line for the eye and the V-line for the beak.
PINK ROSETTE
STEP 1: Using flattened round brush, load brush in Dark Pink Mix and sideload in Medium Pink Mix. Sketch in the center of the rose. Reload and paint in the shadow area of the rosette bowl.
STEP 2: Load brush in Medium Pink Mix and sideload in Light Pink Mix. Stroke in the two center petals of the rosette.
STEP 3: Clean brush. Put DecoArt Extender and Blend- ing Medium in brush and sideload in Light Pink Mix. Paint C-strokes to form the outer petals. When dry, if required for more definition, repaint. The petal color should be light and airy and the black background should peek through to form the shadow area between the outer petals and the rosette bowl.
LEAVES
Some leaves are simple and others are stroked leaves. All leaves are painted with the no. 4 round.
SIMPLE LEAVES: Load the brush with Dark Green Mix, stroke in one half of leaf starting at pointed tip and ending at stem tip. Load dirty brush in Light Green Mix and repeat stroke on other side of leaf by starting at the pointed tip of leaf and stroke to the stem tip.
STROKED LEAVES: Using the same Dark Green Mix and Light Green Mix, these are painted using a comma-stroke. The dark green side is one stroke from the tip of the leaf to the stem. The lighter side of the leaf requires two strokes using a dirty brush loaded in Light Green Mix. First stroke starts at tip of leaf and is a comma-stroke to the stem. Sec- ond stroke is an additional comma-stroke starting from where the first comma-stroke turned inward.
STEMS & SMALL FLOWERS
Stems are painted using small liner with Dark Green Mix. Small five-petal flowers are painted with Light Blue Mix. Sideload in Dark Blue Mix and add a touch of shad- ow to the center of each blue petal. Add a bit of highlight by adding a brush mix of Light Blue Mix+Warm White.
There are two types of small round flowers that have three or four circle blossoms receding in size from large to small. The cluster of four circular flowers are painted using the Peach. Let the dark background show through for the shadow and add a bit of Warm White to the edge of the brush to add a highlight. The cluster of three circu-
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