Saturday, May 21, 2011
Basket of Yellow and White Daisies
White
Cadmium Yellow Medium
Lemon or Hansa Yellow
Ultramarine Blue
Burnt Umber
Raw Sienna
Pine Green or other dark green
½” foliage Brush
#2 & #1 round Brush
#0 script liner
#6 flat shader
Draw or trace and transfer the shape of the basket. Paint basket with Burnt Umber using your # 6 flat brush. Paint vertical lines with Raw Sienna using the point of your # 2 round brush. While basket is drying, tap foliage using a ½” foliage brush, with mix of dark green and Raw Sienna, add some darker areas with dark green pigment mixed with a little black. High light areas with a color mixed with a little green + little ultramarine Blue and White. Add bright green with Hansa or Zinc yellow mixed with a little a little of your green.
Now go back to basket. Pull across strokes with Raw Sienna + White to create the weave of the basket. Paint ribbon with the tip of your #2 round brush with a brush mix of White and Ultramarine Blue. Highlight loops of ribbon with White.
Paint yellow daisies with Cadmium Yellow using the tip of your #1 round brush. Paint white daisies the same manner. Add Cadmium Yellow centers and shade the bottom of each center with Raw Sienna. Paint little calyxes with the bright yellow green with your liner. Paint little filler flowers with Ultramarine Blue + White by tapping with the tip of your liner.
Ros Stallcup
1436 Lakeview Drive
Virginia Beach, VA 23455
stalcop@aol.com