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GOLDFINCHES
Apply pattern for birds.
Step 1: Basecoat body in Buttermilk.
Step 2: When it’s dry paint body Lemon Yellow. Beak and feet are painted with Antique Gold.
With Lamp Black, paint forehead and eye.
Step 3: Wings — With flat brush loaded with Lamp Black to float, put brush on surface at slight angle, paint with edge leading, draw wing line with short strokes (about 3-4 strokes). Begin with feathers at base of wing and work up to top alternating sides of wing as you paint. Tail feathers are applied the same way.
Step 4: Float shade of Antique Gold above the top edge of wing, under the lower edge of wing and under eye.
With Bittersweet Chocolate shade inside edges of beak and top edge of lower beak. Shade back edge of feet and legs.
Step 5: With Light Buttermilk float highlight on top edge of wing and front of breast (leg area). Add highlight on wings under the black feather lines with short tiny strokes. Using liner brush, add a thin line around the eye and just a touch on the front of legs and feet. Add a dot on the eyeball and upper beak and line on top of head.
With Cadmium Red float highlight to back of birds’ heads, under base of wings and on throats.
FINAL DETAILS
As with all paintings, your touch and your own evaluation of what you have painted will decide what does or does not need enhancing. If you would like more highlights, then you can add an additional highlight with Lemon Yellow on fur of hat, cuffs, and beard.
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Yumiko Higashi CDA was introduced to tole painting in Los Angeles when her husband was transferred there in 1992. She learned many things at Kiso Studio in LA including painting for fun and special skills from Ms. Hisako Kiso. After returning to Japan she opened her own studio and started to teach. Yumiko received certifications from CDA in 2004, MDA Stroke in 2005 and MDA Floral in 2009.
Yumiko’s husband’s job took her back and forth between America and Japan. Every time they moved,
they had many visitors at the studio, including people who had never painted and those who had
experience. She would like for everyone, beginners and advanced artists alike, to draw something with a
smile and truly enjoy learning to draw. Today is a day to know that something done with a smile always produces a smile in return. Let’s all have fun painting.
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