Decorative Painting: Painting Poppies

Painting Instruction:

OUTSIDE PETALS
(all O's on the Poppy Structure Worksheet/Petal Breakdown)

Brush:	Badger Flat Brush
Color	Medium Peach Mixture:	Deep Orange + Misty grey
Brush:	1/2" Sable Brush
Color:		Misty Grey + Titanium White Soft

Base in the outside petals of the poppy with the Medium Peach mixture. Make sure the paint is thin, smooth and wet with medium, but not runny. Don't do the main poppy yet, just the outside petals. Now ruffle the outside petals with Magic Grey + Medium Peach Mixture. Load the brush on one side only with paint. Place the brush with the loaded side facing up, then touch the brush to the top edge of the petal and pull the stroke toward the center of the outside petal. Go all around the outside petals.


CENTER PETALS
(all C's on the Poppy Structure Worksheet/Petal Breakdown)

Brush:	Badger Flat Brush
Colors:	Base color:	Medium Peach Mixture
	Center color:	Alizarin Crimson

This is the same procedure as the back petals, only I added some Alizarin Crimson to the center of the flower; This gives it depth. Curve your strokes so you have a fan shape petal. After you put your base color in, then ruffle the edges of the petals as stated above.


FRONT PETALS
(all F's on the Poppy Structure Worksheet/Petal Breakdown)

Brushes:	Badger Flat Brush, 1/2" Sable brush
Colors:	Medium Peach Mixture	Misty Grey + Titanium White Soft
Colors:	Highlight Color: Teal mix	Misty Grey + Tad of Phtalo Green

Again, this is the same procedure as the center petals. Then ruffle each petal and highlight petals here and there with a teal color.

Centers

Brushes	Round Brush, Script Liner
Colors:	Burnt Umber + Phtalo Blue	Titanium White + Indian Yellow

Load the brush with BU + PB and tap in the centers of the poppies. Dab and relearse, do not paint. Load the Liner brush with thinner and paint, then pull up and curve grass staments ina all directions. Dot the ends with IY + TW.