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Beautiful Blooms!
By Kate Crane
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Materials:
Strathmore Journal (one page needs a layer of gesso)
DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics: Quinacridone Magenta, Green Gold,
Cobalt Turquoise Hue, Hansa Yellow Medium, Diarylide Yellow
DecoArt Media Tinting base OR any heavy body acrylic paint in white
Faber Castell PITT pen in superfine
Signo Uniball broad in white
Small amounts of washi tape
2 or 3 oil pastels (or similar – Neocolors etc) in co-ordinating colours.
(I used a dark red and a golden yellow)
Paintbrushes – 1 fine, 1 large
Scraps of paper for collage
Part 1: Watercolour effects
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Start on a clean white page in your journal (no gesso required).
Take a fine WATERPROOF black marker and begin to doodle
flower shapes all over the page. Keep drawing and don’t think
too much! The flowers don’t have to be realistic, think about
shapes: squares, wonky circles, circles within circles, squares
within squares etc. Keep it loose and scribbly! Fill the gaps with
hearts, leaves, stars, vines.
Add some colour with the fluid acrylic paints and lots of water to
create a water colour effect. Fluid paints are highly pigmented
so you need lots of water and small amounts of paint. Use a fine
brush to fill in the positive and negative shapes on the page.
Generally speaking, shade darker around the edges.
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When the paint is dry add highlights and doodles with the white
Signo Uniball pen.
Part 2
Mixed Media Blooms
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Take a page with a layer of gesso. You could even use a mop-up
page for this!
Begin by adding some random patches of colour by painting the
tinting base (or white paint) and immediately adding your
chosen colour into the wet paint to blend.
Use your fingers to finger-paint circles as the basis for a flower.
Begin with Tinting Base (or white), add Magenta around the
edge, and yellow in the centre.
Once the flower shapes are dry you can add white around the
edge of the flower shapes which allows you to then add some
colour back in!
Finger paint some petal shapes and then continue to add
patches of colour allowing the page to grow. *It will look messy
at this stage. Don’t give up!
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When the flower shapes are dry, add detail with the PITT pen,
drawing around the flower and adding a stem and leaves. Add
extra shapes around the flowers such as more leaves and hearts.
You can also add detail, highlights and doodling with the white
pen.
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Use the white pen to journal on your background, and also to
‘frame’ shapes that you have painted such as hearts.
Add small amounts of washi tape at the base of the flowers to
ground them. Use the flower stems to journal along.
Keep playing with the background, filling any gaps with
doodling or journaling.
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Finish by adding scraps of collage paper to fill any gaps, and by
using the oil pastel to frame the page.