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Painting a Basket of Pansies Project © Ernestina Gallina, www.pietrevive.it

How to Paint a Basket of Pansies : Page 2 of 3

How to Paint Whimsical Flowers on Rocks

Painting a Basket of Pansies

By Ernestina Gallina

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Step 5

Flowers: Pansies are very easy to draw: they are composed from two petals, variously jagged and just one larger petal, underneath. Behind the two petals there are other two, a little bit hidden.

Step 5

Draw several flowers. To give movement to the composition, place them in an irregular way and draw some of them that overflow on the basket.

Step 6

Cover your petals with a white base-coat, so the successive color will be brighter.

Step 7

Cover with a deep dark green all the empty spaces around the flowers, till you have all the hemisphere of your rock covered of colourful base.

Step 8

With brown color draw a line at the edge of the basket and trace some interlaced lines that cross the pebble from one side to another in order to form the handle of the basket.

Step 9

For the flowers you need at least two tonalities of yellow. Start painting the petals with a yellow lemon or a light yellow.

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