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12. Desert Sand: Using small scruffy brush, stipple flip side of leaves to add more texture.
13. Light Cinnamon: Using liner brush, paint the veins on flip side of leaves.
14. Raw Umber: Shade flip side of leaf.
15. Light Cinnamon: Shade some portions of leaves and on one side
of central vein of some magnolia leaves here and there (not every- where).
16. Lamp (Ebony) Black+Plantation Pine (2:1): Shade rose leaves and stems.
17. Khaki Tan+Light Cinnamon: Using very thinned paint and liner brush, pull very fine lines paralleling petals. Do this on the inside of every magnolia petal, pulling from center of flower to tip of petal, following the curve of each petal. These should be
very thin and subtle.
18. Light Cinnamon+Raw Umber: Do same as Step 17 above
but this time on the flipped petals only.
HIGHLIGHT
Using a shader and sideload or reverse float (for center of shapes) technique:
1. Snow (Titanium) White: Using reverse float technique, highlight the center of all magnolia leaves on each side of vein.
2. Light Buttermilk: Do the same thing as Step 17 above but this time on the flipped petal edges only.
3. Light Buttermilk: Using sideload technique, highlight
edges of magnolia petals at the inside curled edges.
4. Silver Sage Green: Highlight rose leaves and stems. Using very thinned paint, subtly tint the edges of curled magnolia
petals and paint rose leaf veins.
5. Snow (Titanium) White: Using reverse float, highlight the
centers of some magnolia petal centers. Highlight a few of the magnolia petal edges.
DETAIL
1. Light Cinnamon: Using liner brush and very thinned paint, pull stamens from around the green magnolia centers (pistil) with some
dots of pollen on stamen tips.
2. Glorious Gold: Pull more stamens (but fewer than in Light Cinna-
mon) with dots of pollen on ends around the green magnolia centers. 3. Raw Umber: Shade around green center (pistil) again.
4. Snow (Titanium) White: Using tip of liner brush and thinned paint, place tiny dots on each pistil.