Friday, March 28, 2014

How to Paint a Basket of Red Geraniums tutorial

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After doing a post on creating new geranium plants from cuttings I figured you may wish to know how to paint them too.
I even made a looooong video.
This post focuses on the leaves and flowers but the video shows you how to paint the basket too.
I traced around some actual geranium leaves as a pattern.
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Starting with a 3/4 inch flat brush double load with a dark green, a celery green and a touch of citron.
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Start on the chisel edge at the V opening of the leaf.
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Start your stroke by pressing the brush and wiggling along the outer edge of the leaf, pivoting the brush as you do.
The Video will help you see what I mean: Paint a Basket of Geraniums
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You can flip the brush and go from the other side as well.
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No need for perfection, if you don’t like it the first time around go over it again.
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For the flowers draw in the stems with thinned down paint and a liner brush, ignore the curly cues, I was goofing around.
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Then with a filbert brush and some burgundy colored paint dab in some buds in a dome shape.
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Don’t forget the little buds draping down.
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Dab on some brighter red in the center then add in some white to highlight.
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Dot in some flower centers and add a bit of green to the draping buds.
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If you want to see how I put it all together to paint a basket full you can watch the video.
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Paint a basket of Red Geraniums

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Happy Painting.

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1 comment:

  1. Although you make it sound so easy, I do believe you've got to have an amazing amount of talent for that end product!

    - Alma, The Tablescaper

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