Paper Rose Mixed Media Art

Traditions Artist Acrylic

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SUPPLIES

Crackle Products
One Step Crackle (DS69)

DecoArt Media Specialty Products

White Modeling Paste (DMM21)

Glamour Dust Sprinkle-On Glitter

Crystal (DAS37)

Texture Products
Glass Texture (TX01)

Traditions Artist Acrylic

Aquamarine (DAT29)
Carbon Black (DAT42)
Diarylide Yellow (DAT13)
Dioxazine Purple (DAT31)
Hansa Yellow Medium (DAT52)
Medium Green (DAT17) share
Medium White (DAT37)
Paper Rose Mixed Media Art
Naphthol Red (DAT02)
designed by Gaby Hunter
Naphthol Red Light (DAT03)
Phthalo Green-Blue (DAT23) A paper rose comes to life in this mixed media canvas in rich
Pine Green (DAT19) color and texture.
Red Violet (DAT32)
Titanium White (DAT35)
Yellow Oxide (DAT12) RELATED PROJECTS
Traditions Mediums
Extender & Blending Medium (DATM02)
Glazing Medium (DATM01)

Other supplies
paper towels
#3 round brush
#3/0 liner brush
#12 at brush
#10 lbert brush
12" x 12" canvas Dandelion Card and Envelope Mix and Match Wedding Jars

3/4" oval brush

hair dryer
3/4" soft white mop brush
 1/2" blender mop
various stamps
real leaves
glue adhesive
bronze wire
watercolor paper
bee push molds (various sizes)
yellow seed beads
large palette knife
hair dryer (optional) Pocketful of Posies Bag Adding Texture with Plastic Wrap
QuikWood
Tattered Florals die (Tim Holtz)

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Use a large palette knife to apply a heavy coat of White

Modeling Paste over the entire canvas. While still wet, use
various tools such as the backside of leaves, stamps, or the
bottom of a brush to achieve textural shapes in the
background. The crackle will happen naturally due to the
heavy texture of the Modeling Paste. Let dry overnight.

2. Use a large oval lbert to apply a coat of Extender & Blending

Medium over the entire surface. Remove the excess with a
paper towel.
3. Load a large oval brush with Phthalo Green-Blue and, starting
at the bottom left corner of the canvas, apply the paint and
walk it up diagonally about 1/3. Pick-up Hansa Yellow Medium
and apply this next to the Phthalo Green-Blue section and
walk it up. Come down and blend the colors so that there is a
gradual transition between them. Wipe off the brush on a
paper towel.
4. Pick-up more Hansa Yellow Medium and a touch of
Aquamarine and continue the process, moving upward into
the top right corner and adding more Aquamarine and then
Aquamarine plus Titanium White. Wipe the brush and pick up
Titanium White. Starting at the top right corner, blend this into
 the Aquamarine and move this down. (The pink tones will be
added towards the end.) Let dry. (Or you can use a hair dryer
to speed up the drying process.)
5. Evaluate the background and repeat the previous step if
necessary. To darken the bottom left corner, apply a coat of
Extender & Blending Medium, removing the excess with a
paper towel. Load the oval brush with Phthalo Green-Blue
plus Dioxazine Purple. Apply this to the lower left corner, walk
it up, and let it fade out. Let dry.
6. FLOWERS & LEAVES: Use the oral die to cut out leaves and
owers using watercolor paper. Apply a coat of Glazing
Medium to the front and back of the watercolor paper. Let dry.
(Since this is a dimensional piece, you will have to paint the
front and the underside of the owers and leaves.)

7. Apply a coat of Extender & Blending Medium over the front of

the owers and remove the excess with a paper towel. Load a
#10 lbert brush with Naphthol Red Light and, starting at the
bottom, walk this color up about 2/3 of each petal and let it
fade out.
8. Pinch-wipe the #10 lbert brush and pick up Medium White.
Starting at the tip of each petal, streak this down using the
chisel edge of the brush. (You want streaks and texture.) Let
dry. Apply another coat of Extender & Blending Medium over
the front of the owers and remove excess with a paper
towel.
9. Load a #10 lbert brush with Naphthol Red plus Red Violet
and, starting at the bottom, walk this color up about 1/3 of
each petal and let it fade out. Load a #3/0 liner brush with
Dioxazine Purple plus a touch of Naphthol Red and pull thin
strokes from the bottom up. Let dry.
10. Apply another coat of Extender & Blending Medium over the
front of the owers and remove excess with a paper towel.
Side-load a lbert or at brush with Hansa Yellow Medium
and, starting at the tip of the petals, walk this down about 1/3
of each petal. As you come around to the lower petals, let the
Hansa Yellow Medium fade.
11. Load a #3 round brush with Titanium White and pull strokes
from the tip down on each petal. (Only do this to the petals
that are reaching up to the sky area.) You can also add some
 texture by adding dots to some of the petals. Side-load a
lbert or at brush with Aquamarine plus a touch of Glazing
Medium and lightly glaze this over some of the lower petals to
carry color. Clean brush.
12. Side-load Diarylide Yellow plus Glazing Medium and glaze this
over some of the inner upper petals. Let dry.
13. Apply a heavy coat of One Step Crackle or Glass Texture over
the petals. Place the ower on top of a coffee cup or egg cup
and lightly press the center into the cup. Let dry. (The One
Step Crackle will dry faster than the Glass Texture.) For the
center, cut off a small piece of QuikWood and knead
according to the manufacturers' suggestions into a ball about
3/4 in diameter. Press this down so that the bottom attens.
Let dry.
14. Paint the center made out of QuikWood with Phthalo Green-
Blue. Let dry. Glue the top ower petals to the lower ower
petals and then glue the center into place. Apply a heavy coat
of Glazing Medium over the center. While this is wet, apply the
seed beads over the center. Sprinkle a little Crystal Glamour
Dust over the seed beads.

15. SMALL FLOWER: Apply a coat of Extender & Blending

Medium over the front of the owers and remove excess with
a paper towel. Load a #10 lbert brush with Naphthol Red
and, starting at the bottom, walk this color up about 1/2 of
each of the lower petals and 2/3 of the inner petals and let
fade out.
16. Pinch-wipe a #10 lbert brush and then pick up Medium
White. Starting at the tip of each petal, streak this down using
the chisel edge of the brush. (You want streaks and texture.)
Let dry. Once dry, apply a coat of Extender & Blending
Medium and remove the excess with a paper towel.
17. Load a #10 lbert brush with Red Violet and, starting at the
bottom, walk this color up about 1/3 of each petal and let it
fade out. Load a liner brush with Dioxazine Purple and pull
thin strokes from the bottom up. Let dry.
18. Apply another coat of Extender & Blending Medium over the
front of the owers and remove the excess with a paper
 towel. Side-load a lbert or at brush with Hansa Yellow
Medium and, starting at the tip of the petals, walk this down
about 1/3 of each petal.
19. Pinch-wipe the brush and side-load it with Aquamarine.
Starting at the tip of the petals, walk this down about 1/3 of the
lower level petals and let fade out. (Refer to photo for
placement: The inner petals have more red and the outer
petals more aqua, which will push the lower petals closer to
the background color.)
20. Load a round brush with Titanium White and pull strokes from
the tip down of each petal. (You can also add some texture by
adding dots to some of the petals.) Let dry.
21. Apply a heavy coat of One Step Crackle or Glass Texture over
the petals. Place the ower on top of a coffee cup or egg cup
and lightly press the center into the cup. Let dry. For the
center, apply a heavy coat of Glazing Medium and add some
yellow seed beads. Sprinkle with some Crystal Glamour Dust.

22. FLOWER BUDS: Apply a coat of Extender & Blending Medium

over the front of the owers and remove the excess with a
paper towel. Base the petals with Hansa Yellow Medium.
While still wet, load a lbert brush with a medium green mix
(Medium White plus a touch of Medium Green plus a touch of
Hansa Yellow Medium). Starting at the bottom, walk this up
and let fade out. Clean brush. Save medium green mix for
step 25.
23. Side-load a lbert with Medium White plus a touch of
Naphthol Red Light and apply this to the tip of the petals. Let
dry. Apply a heavy coat of One Step Crackle and let dry. Fold
the petals up into a bud and glue the petals at the tip of the
bud to hold its shape.
24. For the tiny bud, make a ball out of QuikWood and let dry.
Base the top of the bud with Medium White plus a touch of
Naphthol Red Light. Let it fade as you walk the color down.
Clean brush.
25. Load a #3 round brush with the medium green mix from step
22 and pull strokes from the bottom up. Let dry. Use a liner
 brush loaded with Naphthol Red Light and apply small dots to
the top of the bud. Also add some small dots to the tips of the
other bud.

26. STEMS & LEAVES: For the stems and some of the leaves, use
QuikWood. (This will add another element of texture to the
piece.) Sculpt the stems and leaves by cutting off about 1" -1-
1/2" of QuikWood and preparing according to the
manufacturers recommendation. Apply a little Extender &
Blending Medium over the palette paper to prevent the
QuikWood from sticking to the paper as you work.
27. Roll the QuikWood to form several tubes, thicker at the
bottom and thinner at the top, and shape these into place on
the canvas. (You want to create C and S shapes.) For the
leaves, roll out the QuikWood using the tube it came in. With a
sharp knife or leaf cutter, cut out various sizes of leaves.

28. Coat the backside of a real live leaf with Extender & Blending
 Medium, press it into the sculpted leaf, and lift up again. (This
will give you some nice imprints of texture and veins. You can
also use some stamps for this.) Let all the sculpted items dry.
29. Apply a coat of Extender & Blending Medium over the fronts
of the paper leaves and remove the excess with a paper
towel.
30. Use a lbert brush loaded with Pine Green and base in a leaf.
While the leaf is still wet, pick-up some Phthalo Green-Blue
and apply this to the bottom edge of the leaf, walking it up
through the center. Use the blender mop brush to soften the
edges. Pinch-wipe the brush. Load the brush with Pine Green
plus Hansa Yellow Medium and pull strokes from the outside
in, following the direction of the growth.
31. Repeat by picking up some Medium White into the dirty brush
and build some highlights. Let dry. Apply a coat of Extender &
Blending Medium over the front of the paper leaves and
remove the excess with a paper towel.
32. Side-load a at or lbert brush with Aquamarine plus touch of
Glazing Medium and apply some tints to the leaves. Clean the
brush. Brush mix a light violet using Red Violet plus a touch of
Titanium White and side-load this plus a touch of Glazing
Medium. Apply some tints of this color to the leaves. Let dry.
33. Repeat for all remaining paper leaves, including their back
sides. Apply a heavy coat of One Step Crackle.
34. Base the stems and leaves with Pine Green. While still wet,
pick-up some Phthalo Green-Blue and shade the sides of the
stems and the bottoms of the leaves. Also walk this dark color
up through the center of the leaves. Use the blender mop
brush to soften the edges.
35. Pinch-wipe the brush and load it with Pine Green plus a touch
of Hansa Yellow Medium. Dry-brush this over the top of the
leaves and the center of the stems. (This will soften out all of
the hard edges.) Pick-up a touch of Aquamarine (or light violet
mix) and dry-brush this over some of the edges of the leaves.
(This will help carry color.)
36. To add a little life to the piece, I opted to create some bees
using a bee push mold and QuikWood. (You can also use
metal bees or other little creatures to enhance the piece.)
Apply a light coat of Extender & Blending Medium into the
push mold. Cut a piece of QuikWood and prepare according
to the manufacturers recommendation. Push this into the
mold.
37. Use the palette knife to cut off excess QuikWood. Let the
QuikWood dry inside the mold. Once dry, remove it from the
mold. Use the #3 round brush and base the body of the bees
with Yellow Oxide. Base the stripes, eye, and legs of the bee
with Carbon Black.
38. Base the wings with Medium White. Pick-up some Hansa
Yellow Medium and use the tip of the brush to apply some
small dots to build some highlights in the Yellow Oxide areas
of the bee. Let dry.
39. Apply a coat of Glazing Medium and, while still wet, sprinkle
 the bee with Crystal Glamour Dust. Cut off a piece of wire and
wrap it around a pencil to create a coil. Glue one end of the
wire to the bottom of the bee.
40. To assemble and add nal touches of color to the
background: Glue all owers, leaves, and bees into place.
Evaluate the piece and make adjustments: Apply a coat of
Extender & Blending Medium over the bottom area and load
the large oval brush with Phthalo Green-Blue plus Dioxazine
Purple to darken the lower left corner and walk this color out.
Clean brush.
41. Load a dry brush with a mix of Red Violet plus Titanium White
and dry-brush this over some sections of the canvas. (Refer to
the nal photo for placement.) Add a tiny touch of Naphthol
Red Light and Titanium White and repeat over some areas to
lighten the previous step.

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