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3 5 Paint the lines for the gills but use a very

Keep on doing the same thing to all of dark red because the mushroom is at
the lowest part of the mushroom. Use
the mushrooms and be careful with the dull down colours for places with
lighting like the tip and middle part of shadows because they dont tend
the muhsroom . Use the tip of the brush to show obvious lines.After finish
slant the brush a bit to its side to make painting the gills make an overlay of
a broader stroke for inbetween strokes. oranges and red on the top of each
Alternate painting the gills with red and mushroom to make it more vibrant and
yellow ochre.Use purple mixed in with blended together.
blue to create the shadow part at the
bottom right .

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For the last step using watercolour
For this part apply red and yellow on the pencils .Take a red and yellow pencil
bottom part of the mushroom and use a lit- and colour in the gills that has the
tle bit of purple for the shadows at bottom highest red contrast (middle part of the
left ,this will give the appearence of shadow gills). Take a brown colour pencil and
under the mushroom . shade every top fold of the mushroom
Laying dark colours can be easily picked up indicating a shadow .lightly colour
using tissues , just dab on top of the wet yellow areas with a yellow colour
surface it will absorb the excess paint. pencil .

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