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PREPARATION
The surface requires very little preparation.
1. Seal the center of the tray.
2. Let dry and then sand lightly with 120-grit sandpaper. The edge/trim is left rough – no sanding.
3. Evenly basecoat with Pure Black.
4. Trace the pattern onto tracing paper.
5. Center the tracing and tape securely along one edge. 6. Transfer the pattern using white transfer paper.
GENERAL INFORMATION
Loading flat and filbert brushes
Loading your liner
Dilute the paint to a thin consistency so it will flow freely from the very tip of the brush. Use clean, cold water to thin the acrylic color and oil painting medium to thin oil color. Blend into your brush. Add more thinner and/or paint as needed. Thinned oil color will stay wetter longer so be careful not to smudge. Use the brush at 90 degrees to
the surface.
Floating/sideloading color
Prepare your brush in medium. Touch the towel to remove excess. Flatten brush on your palette. Pull one side of the brush through the edge of the paint puddle as many times as is needed to pick up adequate paint. Walk into the paint puddle to the required width of the float. Move to a clean spot on the palette. Blend the paint into the brush making sure not to move the paint across to the clean, opposite side of the brush. Be sure when working in oils that as much thinner/medium as possible has been removed from the brush.
Double-loading (two colors on one brush)
Follow the same instructions as those for floating color. After the initial color is picked up pull the clean/opposite side of the brush through a second color. By pulling your flattened brush through the edge of the paint you can regulate the width of each color on your brush. Blend the colors in one spot on your palette.
Prepare your brush in clean, cold water for acrylic; in painting medium for oils. Remove the medium from your brush by touching absorbent towel. Pick up adequate paint from the edge of the paint puddle (which should be relevant in size to the brushes you are loading) always keeping the flat side of your brush FLAT. Press down on the brush allowing the bristles to spread, grabbing the paint as the pressure is released and the filaments reform. On one spot on your palette, work the paint into the brush until each hair is surrounded by an equal amount of paint. As you work the paint into the brush replenish from your puddle of paint. Use less paint in your brush when working with oils.
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