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ROSE LEAVES: #4 round and #6/0 liner brushes
1. Double load the #4 brush in Pine Green and Medium Green. Stroke in the large rose leaves.
2. When the leaf is dry, using the #6/0 liner, add an overstroke highlight on one side with Green Highlight Mix. 3. Add thin veins with liner brush of Green Highlight Mix.
4. Outline a thin line of Black on the side opposite the highlight.
ROSE LEAVES
ROSE: #4 and #2 round, #6/0 liner brushes
1. With the #4 brush, load it well in Rose Red Mix by pressing it against the palette through the mix until the brush is well loaded and flattened. Then paint a round solid circle with minimal ridges. Wipe the brush on a paper towel to remove excess paint (do not wash the brush).
2. While the circle is still wet, press the brush against the palette through Alizarin Crimson several times; stroke in the throat with three strokes. The circle will be a little transparent. Wipe the brush on the paper towel.
3. While still wet, wipe the “dirty brush” solidly on the palette through Titanium White. Make three Titanium White comma strokes across the top of the throat against the background, mashing the brush flat to make broad strokes from one side of the throat to the other. The stroke in the center should be the highest.
4. While still wet, wipe the dirty brush again on the paper towel and then in Titanium White and paint three more comma strokes underneath the first three. Then stroke the brush in an arc under the last set of petals from one side to the other to smooth the bottom of the strokes. Before going to the next step, still using the dirty brush, recoat the bowl of the rose with Red Rose Mix to rewet it and give it a second coat. With the dirty brush, add an Alizarin Crimson stroke down each side of the bowl.
5. While still wet, roll the brush on the paper towel to squeeze out excess paint and to shape the brush to a point. Poke the point once, about 1/8", into the Titanium White,
and paint a stroke beginning at the top left, continuing underneath the center and then reversing and ending at the center bottom. Continue to stroke across that side without reloading until you have added Titanium White to the entire side. This gives a soft blended look.
6. While still wet, roll and poke the brush in Titanium White and fill in the right side of the circle with strokes underneath the throat overlapping in the middle the strokes you painted before. Continue without reloading all the way down the right side. There is no set number of strokes that it takes to fill in.
7. Double-load the brush in Rose Red Mix + Titanium White (double-load all across the brush, not a side load) and make five small comma strokes around the outside edge of the rose creating petals. Make two strokes in one direction and three in the other starting from the top of the rose. Be careful to stay out of the bowl. Let dry.
8. When all is dry, roll and poke the #2 brush into Titanium White and overstroke all of the outside petals excluding the top three. You can use comma strokes or small S-strokes (see chart). If they need it, also overstroke the first two strokes
of the center section. With a script liner, pull Carbon Black stamen from the throat outwards. Add a thin Carbon Black outline around the outside edges of the petals to sharpen them. Add a thin “smile” stroke in between the bowl of the rose and the petals with Alizarin Crimson on the script liner brush. Add Titanium White dots with the stick end of a thin brush or a stylus.
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