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Brushwork
lt's not essentialthat you use proper artists,
paintbrushes for the ideas in this book, but you
will find that they are easy to use and will
give you somevery good results.

lVpesof brushes
Paintbrushescome in a variety of
types and sizes.Somebrushes
have soft bristles. Theseare
god for using with inks and
watercolours.Hard-bristled
brushes are good for
using with acrylics.
The soft bristles of this
brush are sable,a
type of animal hair.
They are very
good, but
expensive.
Round-ended brushes

The numberon a brush

indicatesits thickness.
Size 4 is good for
painting fine detail;
size 12 for painting
Use a largeareas.
household
paintbrushfor
:.ri;.backgrounds.
These
two blue
brusheshave Flat-endedbrushes
hard bristles. you wide brushstrokes.

Brushstrokes
Different gpes of brushes make different
marks, or 'brushstrokes'. You can also
use the samebrush to give you a
variety of effects.
All these lines were
withano.5brush.
For fine lines,use the tip of a light, then
brush. Pressharderto get pressure,on the brush.
thicker lines.
Lookingafterbrushes
Store
brushes
in a box
or upright
in a pot.

Don't leave brushes Wash brushes in Re-shapethe Store brushes in a

standing in water. warm, soapy bristles with your safe place where
This will damage water. Hot water fingers before the bristles won't
the bristles. loosensthe bristles. they dry. get damaged.
Build up patterns
with different
combinations

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lettering
Usethe brush
tip of a fine,
round brush to
make small marks.

'brushes'
Other Piece
or Pot'ton
There are lots of other things,
apart from artists'brushes which
you can use to paint with. Experiment
with some of the things shown here.
 Mixingcolours
You only need a few colours of paint
to be able to mix a wide range of
other colours. If you are going to buy
some paints, here is a suggestion of
the basic colours to get.
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Lemon yellow -
good for mixing
with blue to
make greens '

Yellow ochre - good for

mixing with red to make
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Vermilion red - good for mixing _
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red to make purples
or with blue, to make Prussianor cobalt blue -
a good for mixing with
yellow to make greens
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red - good
for mixing with blue
to makepurples
ea B urntumber- ,'-
mix it with blue,
White - mix it with
coloursto make
to get black. pastel shades.
t I etackandgrey
Thesepaints have
been darkenedwith

This blue/browr
mixhasbeen - You don't need black
addedto crimson.- to make grey, either.
If you mix black with a Instead of using black, To mix a light
colour to make it darker, mix ultramarine and grelr mix blue,
the paint can look very burnt umber together. with white, then add a
dull. Use other colours Mix in this blackish tiny amount of yellow
instead to darken colours. colour to darken paints. and vermilion.

Mixingcoloursfor skies

blue
9n your palette.Clean the orange to the blue you to the paint. Some of the
your brush. Mix a little have mixed. Seewhat colours would be good
vermilion and lemon colour it makes. Then, try for a bright sunny sky,
yellow to make orange. adding a little white. others for stormy skies.
Mixingskincolours

II=I Brush the

paint next to
Match the
colours as
closely as
the square. you can.

1. Find pictures of faces 3. Cut out half a facefrom

rn magazines.Cut a with white, then a little a magazine and glue it
squarefrom eachone. yellow and blue, until onto paper. Paint the other
Glue them onto paper. you've got a good match. half, matching the colours.

Mixinggreens
You may have noticed re
that there is no green
paint in the list of
recommendedcolours.
You don't need to buy it L. Mix together a little
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2. Then, add different
becauseyou can easily lemon yellow and cobalt amounts of red. Seehow
use other colours to mix blue to make a brightish many different greens
different greens. green colour. you,-gqnmake.
Acrylic paints
Acrylic paints are very bright and easy
to mix. They can be used in a variety
of ways to get different effects.

Usingacrylics
Squeezesmall blobs of acrylic
paint onto an old plate or
palette. Mix them with water,
or use them straight from the Youcan usethe Or, you can add water to
tube. Wash your brushes well, paint as it is, without the paint to make it
becausethe paint is mixing it with water. and more transparent.
waterproof when it dries.

Differenteffects

Using paint Paint a patch of Cut notchesin a Use the pointed

straight from the colour in thick piece of end of a
tube, try short paint, then scratch cardboard.Scrape paintbrush to
brushstrokeswith into it with a piece it acrossthe paint scratchswirls
a flat-endedbrush. of cardboard. to make lines. into thick paint.

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r,or a crlss-cross To get a textured Mix paint with a Paint lines with
effect, press the pattern, scratch little water to watery paint. Let
edge of a piece of into thick paint make it watery. them dry. Add
thick cardboard with the prongs of Do wavy lines in shapeswith thick
into the paint. a plastic fork. different colours. paint on top.
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Thickand thin paint

THICK PAPER,SUCHAS CARTRIDGEPAPER

You can get different effectsby using acrylic

paint straight from a bottle or tube, or by
thinning it with water. Acrylics also have an
adhesivequality, so thin paper,such as tissue
paper/sticks to it when the paint dries.
The background of the
picture below was
painted with thin paint,
then patterns were
added with thick paint.

For a tartan pattern, the

green and white stripes were
painted with thin paint. The The squares above were outlined with thin
purple ones were thick paint. paint. Details were added with thick paint.

Squares,lines
and dots of
thick paint.

The strawberry
was cut from
The purple flower on tissue paper.
the right is tissue paper. Thin white
Thick white paint was paint was
added on top. painted on top.
Tissueprints Red or orange tissue work best. .

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L. Mix some thin :

2. Cut a shape 3. Leave the shape
paint and brush it trom trssuepaper.
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for a minute or so/

onto some paper Pressit on the then peel off the
in an even wash. wet paint. tissuepaper.
The stripes and spots Thetop"rO..=
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with thick paint. were printgd.

and leaf orl th-" :,'

left are tiCsue .
paperwith ".
thick paqt
on top.

The details on the dog and the

fish were added with a feh-tip,
once the paint had dried.

A tissue paper heart

with thick paint on top.
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or 1. Mix red and 2. Paint a large 3. \tVhenthe rust 4. Use yellow

'fr yellow acrylic piece of paper all paint had dried, ochre to paint a
paints to make over with the rust paint a large black circle in the llr
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orange,then add paint. Use a thick snake curling middle of the
blue to make rust. paintbrush. around the paper. snake.Let it dry.
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5. Cut a pieceof 6. Spreadthe 7. Pressa cotton 8. Use another
sponge cloth for sponge cloths bud onto the cotton bud to fill
the bottom of three with some black, I
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more pots. Dampen ochre and white Print lines of dots lines with rows of
the cloth slightly. paint. on the snake. rust dots.

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around the inside the ochre and white flowers and ochre flowers 'il
outline of the one. Use theseas around the ochre around the snake.
snake.Spacethe guides to print circle. Fill in with Fill the background .
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Tissueprints Red or orangetissue work best.
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1. Mix some thin 2. Cut a shape

paint and brush it from trssuepaper.
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onto somepaper Pressit on the then peel off the
in an even wash. wet paint,
The stripes and spots
below were all painted
with thick paint. vqeren{nted.
fr" flo*o f
and leaf on the
left are tissuo
paper with
thick paint
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The details on the dog and the

fish were added with a feh-tip,
once the paint had dried.

A tissue paper heart

with thick paint on top.
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Gluepictures
A PIECECF CARI}BCARD

Test it on
newspaper. 1...:'

This iCea uses PVA glue

for drawing, vvirich leaves
a raised line when it dries.
The raised lines are then
covered rvith gold acrviic
paint and bl;lck shoe
polish is rubbed in
to get an 'antique' iook.
1. If the glue IS nelv, srup 2. If the line you have
You wiii neecl a bottie of a little piece off the nozzle. drawn is rrerythin, snip
PVA glue which has a Test it to see the thickness a little bit more off the
nozzle top. of the line it makes. end of the nozzle.

3. Draw a simple picture 4. Then, draw around 5. When you get to the
on the cardboard.Place your picture, squeezing end of a line, lift the glue
the nozzle of the glue the glue out gently as up quickly, so that it
where you want to start. you draw. doesn'tdrip.

6. Add some wavy lines, 7. Leave it to dry 8. To get the antique look,
swirls and dots on the overnight. Then, paint all put someblack shoe
cardboard, around your over with gold acrylic polish on a soft cloth,
drawing. paint. Let the paint dry. then rub it all over.
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Printingpatterns
ANY PAPER

Spreadthe paint with

the back of a spoon.

Usean old
birthday
card or
postcard.
Press
firmly.
1. Draw a simple 2. Pressa lump of 3. Squeezepaint 4. Pressthe shape
shapeon a piece poster putty onto onto newspaper. into the paint,
of cardboard.Cut the back, to make Spreadthe paint then print it on
it out. a handle. with a spoon. somepaper.

Printingpatterns
Experimentwith Pressthe
making different cardboard
patterns.Try into the
paint before
printing rows or you do each
joining up the print.
prints.

prints
TWo'tone Cut different
shapes and print
them as part of
your pattern.

For a two-tone Pressthe shape

print, spread two into the paint
colours of paint where the two
on the newspaper. coloursmeet.
Straightlines The effect you get
depends of the
thickness of the
cardboard.

E Corrugated
cardboard

1. Cut different Z.Dip the edgeof

thicknessesof the cardboardinto
cardboard into the paint. then
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tnrn strrps. print a line.

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Gut out and print a

fish shape.Add
details with the edge
of smallstripsof
cardboard.

Curvedshapes
,ft'

Dip the edge of a For a spiral, print For a looped

piece of cardboard curved shapes, pattern,bend some
into paint. Bend it joining them in thin cardboardand
as you print. the middle. secureit with tape.
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Twist this
end.
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2. TWistthe top of
shape,dip the the cardboardas
edge of a piece of you print, keeping
cardboardinto the bottom corner
some paint. in one place.

Experimentwith
lots of different
patternsand
shapes.

Use the edge

cardboardfor a
stem. Print a
smalltrianglefor
Dip a loop of
cardboard in two
colours of paint (see
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 and posterpaints
Ready-mix
Ready-mix paints and poster paints are good for simple,
bold pictures,although poster paints tencl to gir-e
much brighter results than ready-mix paints. Both
types of paint can be thinned with water.

Squeezeready-mix onto a palette

before vou use it. Be careful if you
mix thesepaints, as the colours
can look clull n'hen thev dry.
Posterpaints can be used straight
from the pot, or mix them with each
other on a palette.The picture on the
oppositepage includessomecolours
which were mixed.

It's best to use thick cartridge

paper with thesepaints.Thinner
paper will go crinkly.

Posterpaints are sold in little

,J'; pots and are more expensive
than ready-mixpaints.

.t, The picture below had outlines

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added with a felt-tip pen, once
the paint was dry.
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1. Use a ballpoint 2. Paint over the 3. Cut piecesof a 4. Cut piecesof a

pen to draw a cardboardwith a thick elastic band narrower elastic
simple designon thick layer of to fit the main band for the
a piece of thick PVA glue. Wash shapes.Press details.Pressthem
cardboard. your brush. them on firmly. onto the glue.

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5. Cut squares 6. When the glue 7. Put the 8. Lay the painted
from a thick has dried, paint cardboard,picture- cardboardon a
elasticband. Press some ready-mix side down, into pad of newspaper.
them onto the paint onto a the paint. Presson Pressall over the
background. spongecloth. the back firmly. back,then lift it off.

9. Do several
practiceprints like
this before doing
a'proper'print
on paper.
Experiment by
printing on different
colours of paper.
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print on tissue
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cardboardin
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cardboard,
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prints
Handandcardboard
ANY LIGHT-COLOURED
PAPER

Turn over to page

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28 to seea full-
size version of the
prints shown on
thesetwo pages.
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You'll need to be L. For the 2. Lay some paper
near and sink and background, on top of it and
have lots of paper brush some press lightly. Lift
towels to wipe plastic foodwrap off the paper dry
vour hands. with blue paint. and leave it to drv.

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goesin
the
paint.

3. For a seahorse, 4. For the head, 5. Pressyour 6. Put paint on

pour two shades pressthe top of knuckles into the your little finger
of ready-mix or your fingers into paint. Turn your as far as your
poster paint onto a the paint. Print hand sideways knuckle. Print a
pad of newspapers. them on the paper. and print a body. long snout with it.

This is
the
start of
the tail.

7. Use the same 8. Use a fingertip 9. Finish the tail 10. Dip a fingertip
finger to print to add two prints by doing several in a bright colour
three fins and at the end of the prints with a and print an eye.
three more prints snout. Print some fingertip. Curve Add the middle
below the body. along the head. them around. when it's dry.
 Crabs

1. Print the crab's 2. Dip the edge of 3. Use a small 4. Print stalks for
body with your the cardboard into piece of cardboard eyes.Do the eyes
thumb. Cut a piece paint and use it to to print V-shaped with a fingertip.
of thin cardboard, print legs.Curve pincers on the Add dots when
about 3cm long. it as you print. front legs. the paint is dry.

Fanfish

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1. Dip the edgeof 2. Pressit onto 3. Print another 4. Print the fins
a piece of thin your paper,then fan to finish the with cardboard.
cardboardinto twist one end to body. Then print a Do the eye with a
two or three make a fan shape. narrower one for fingertip when the
colours of paint. Turn the paper. the tail. paint is dry.

Little rainbowfish

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fingertip. For the

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severalcolours of
paint. Print it.
eye, dip the end of
an old pencil in
paint, then print it.
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pages26-27.

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1. Put the coloured 2. Lay newspapers 3. Put the coioured 4. Pour some
paper to one side. outside. Put small paper on the ready-mix paint
Draw an outline stonesaround the newspapers,with into a yogurt pot.
on the other piece. edge to weight the cut-out on top. Add water to
Cut it out. them down. Weight it down. make it runny.

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into the paint. Pull spatteringpaint cut-outto leave shading such as
a ruler along the around the cut-out the areayou windows and a
bristlestowards you until the speckles maskedout. watery reflection,
to splatterthe paint. are quite dense. Leave it to dry. with pastels.

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prints
Pulledcardboard
USETHICKCARDBOARD

1. Put some paint 2. Put the painted 3. Dip the edge in 4. For a diamond
on a p1ate.Dip the edge onto your the paint again shape,pull the
edge of a piece of paper and pull it then, pull it card diagonally
cardboard into it. evenly to the side. towards you. out to one side.
Use a different piece
of cardboard for each
colouryou

5. For a zigzag 6. For a wiggly

effect pull the line, pull the edge
edge diagonally to one side in a
down then up. wavy motion.
Print a tree with
severaloverlapping
curves.

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piece of cardboard below the line a pieceof narrow cardboard
in paint and print a and pull the edge cardboard for the in a darker shade
line. in a wavy line. head and beak. of paint. rl
For hills, do long wavy prints
with a wide piece of
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Paintandtissuepaper

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square
around it.
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1. Use a thick black 2. Tracethe main shapes 3. Cut a pieceof polythene
felt-tip pen to draw a of your fish onto from a clear plastic bug.
bold drawing of a fish. different colours of tissue Make sure it is bigger
Do it on white paper. paper,then cut them out. than your drawing.

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4. Lay the polythene over 5. Brush the tissuepaper 6. Cut or tear strips of
your drawing. Put pieces shapeswith PVA glue. tissuepaper for the
of tape along the edgesto Presseachone in place background.Glue them
secureit. onto the polythene. on around the fish.

7. Glue a piece of pale 8. When the glue is 9. Placethe tissuepaper

blue tissue paper over completely dry, carefully over your drawing. Go
the whole picture, then peel the tissue paper off over your outlines using
leave to it dry. the polythene. black paint.
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will be stronger
if you cut a
frame and glue
it onto the
picture.
Aboutcolours
Which colours go well
together?Why do some
Primarycolours
colours appear to jump There are three colours
out of a painting and some which cannot be made
seemto blend in with by mixing other
the colours around them. colours. Theseare red,
Thesepagesshow how yellow and blue, and
different combinationsof they are known as
colours alter the wav a primary colours.
painting looks.
Yellow
Secondary
colours
If you mix eachof
the primary colours
with another one,
you get orange/
green and purple.
Red + yellow Yellow + blue
al Blue+ red

Theseare known as
secondarvcolours.

Morecolours
You can get more colours by mixing a
primary with a secondary colour. These
mixes are shown on the outside ring of
the colour circle.
lf you mix yellow
with orange you .
get a colour
between the two.

Blue mixed with

green makes a
bluey-green.

Red and orange

The primary make an
The secondarycolours coloursare in orangey-red.
are in the middle ring of the centre of the
the colourcircle. colourcircle.
Harmoniccolours
Harmonic colours
are those which lie Theseare examples
of different groups
near each other on of harmoniccolours.
the outside ring of
the colour circle,
such as blue, light
blue, green and
light green.

colours
Complementary
The colours which lie
diagonally opposite each
other in the colour circle
are called complementary
colours. They have most
contrast when they are
painted next to each other.
When you paint complementary
colours next to each other they
'brJzz'andmake your eyesbounce.

Warmandcoolcolours
Some colours grve the feeling of
warmth or coldnessand are
acfually known as warm or cool
colours. Warm colours look
brighter and stand out more in a
picture than cool colours.

The cool colour:

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Colourandtone
The tone of a colour is Yellow is the Orangeis a
how light or dark it is. lightest light tone too.
You can createunusual
pictures by painting in
tones of one colour or Green is a Red is a
middle tone. middle tone.
by changing the tones
in a picture.

This circle shows the Purple is a

tones of different dark tone.
colours.

Experimenting
with tones
Experiment with
making as many
different tones of one
colour as you can.
Always start with the
Iightest tone and get
gradually darker. This
is easiestto do with
acrylic, poster or
ready-mix paints.
All these tones
were made by adding Start with white. Add a Add more and more of the
a colourto white. tiny amount of a colour. colour until you get a dark tone.

Lightand darktones
The tones in a picture
can change the feeling
or mood of it. Light
tones give a soft, pastel
effect, whereas dark
tones make a picture
look stronger.
Compare the picture at the
top, which is painted using
light tones only, with the
one at the bottom, which
is painted in darker tones.
Similartones
Although colours
look very different
they can have the
sametones.It's
easiestto seethe
similarities between
colours in a black
and white picture.

Compare the tones

in the colour and
the black and white
photographs. For
instance, the red
paper and blue The flowers are have the lightest ln this black and white photograph
squaneshave tone. The purple squareson the it's easierto see which colours
a Similar tone. paper have the darkest tone. have a similar tone.

tones
Reversing
You can get some surprising effectsif The tones in the second picture below
you reversethe order of tones, so that have been reversed.Aty part of the
yellow becomesthe darkest tone and picture which was a dark colour has
blue becomesthe lightest one. becomelighter.
Light blue has
become dark bluel
 Inks
Inks are ideal for painting or
drawing bright, vibrant pictures.
Use them with a brush, a dip pen
or draw with a cartridge pen.
They are also ideal for resist
techniqueswith wax crayons
Watered- pastels or wax
(seepage 76) or oil pastels. down ink. crayons for a resist
effect.
Inkblobs
Wet a piece of watercolour Try doing blobs
paper then drop spots of close together. Let
inks on it. When the paper the colours bleed
into each other.
is dry, draw on top with a
felt-tip or dip pen.

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paint stripes of dry, brush stripes
different colours. acrossthe other
Vary the thickness. stripes.
Spookytrees

1. Paint a wash 2. Paint a line of

with watercolour black ink. Use a
paints (seepage straw to blow the
48). Leave it to dry. ink into shapes.

resist
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1. Use a pencil to 2. Draw a line next 3. Fill in the 4. Brushblack

draw a random to the onesalready shapesusing oil drawing ink all
pattern all over a drawn to make pastels.Tiy not to over the paper.
piece of paper. double lines. go over the lines. Leave it to dry.
Use the corner of a screwdriver to scrape the patterns.

5. Scrapea pattern 6. Carry on

through the ink to scraping different
revealthe colour patternsinto all
underneath. the shapes.
 srusnanctinkpaintings
T \ I I

ANY THICKWHITE PAPER

The best kind of brush to

use for pictures like
these,are soft-haired
brushes which have a
pointed tip. Chineseor
japaneselettering
brushesare ideal for
thesetechniques.

Mixingthe inks
To do the paintings on
thesepages,you need to
use three shadesof one
Add a few drops Mix a medium shade, Undiluted ink,
colour of ink. Use ink
of ink to water in by adding more drops straight from
from a bottle or snip the a small container of ink to water in squeezethe il
end off an ink cartridge. to make a watery another container. cartridge into
ink.

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Practiseon scrap paper ffi b. - . ' w'
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ruw*
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of the bristles more ink ffi. h',5[
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to paint. ffi'
on your ffi with, then increase
brush. W the pressure.
1. Dip your brush in the 2. Paint another two 3. Using the medium ink
watery ink, then dab the sectionsabove the first and the tip of your brush,
bristles on a paper towel. one. Leave a small space add branchescoming out
Paint a sectionof a stem. between eachsection. from the stem.

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4. Add twigs onto the
Use undiluted ink.

5. For aleaf, presslightly 6. Use the tip of the

branches. Leave a small on the tip of the brush, brush and undiluted ink
space between one twig then pressa little harder to paint grassand lines at
and the next one. then presslightly again. the joints on the stem.
 A

Bird

t
\
For each line,
start with the
tip, then press
harder,then
lighter again. -l
1. Using undiluted ink,
paint the beak with the
tip of your brush. Add &
the neck and body.
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2. Paint the head, an eye 3. For a tail,

and a line for the bird's paint several
back. Add a branch at lines joining
the bottom of the body. on to the body.
 rike .
.,L,, i;,::r:"ilfsround Frog
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".=.. watercolour wash (see
page 48). Let it dry
before adding the
creatures.

1. Usethe very
watery ink to
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Pamt a snapelor
the body.

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2. Use the tip ot
j* the brush to add a
darker stripe along
the shape with the
medium ink.

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Usethe tip 3. Beforethe body

of a thin has dried, add
brushto
paint ree{s. some spots of the
medium ink to it.

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 paints
Watercolour
Watercolourpaints can give you bright,
vibrant colours,but they are also particularly
good for painting skies and water.

Paints
Most watercolour paints are sold in
tubes or as small, solid blocks,
called pans. The pans are easy to
use and are more economical.
The paint in tubes is quite
thick. Mix it with water on a
palette.
Boxes of
watercolours
are filled with
or half-pans.You can
buy each colour

Half-pansof
paper
Watercolour watercolour paints

Watercolourpaper comes The thicknessof the The paper in watercolour

in different thicknesses paper is shown by its blocks is glued around the
and with different weight. Look for paper edges.Slip a blunt knife
textures.You can buy it which is 190gsm(901b)or into the gap.Cently cut
from art shopsin blocks, above.It won't wrinkle the piece of paper away
spiral-boundpads and as too much when you paint from the block.
individual sheets. on it.
'Not'or
cold-
Rough watercolour Hot-pressedor Smooth paper pressed paper has
paper has most has the smoothest a semi-rough
texture. surface. texture. A block of
watercolour
paper

Most of the watercolour

projects in this book
were done on'not'
paper.
 Mixingwatercolours
If you have tubes of
watercolour paints,
mix them in the same
ways as you would mix
acrylics. Find out how to
do this on page 10.These
stepsshow you how to
1. Dip your brush in
water, then blot it on a
paper towel to get rid of
II
2. Move the brush around
and around in one colour
until the bristles are
mix paint from pans. some of the water. coveredin paint.

3. Dab the paint onto a 4. Rinse and blot your 5. Mix this paint with
palette,then repeatthe brush on a paper towel, the first colour on the
stepsto make a larger then dip it into the colour palette.Repeatuntil you
patch of colour. you want to mix in. get the colour you want.
Watercolour paints look darker
when they are wet. They become
lighter once they are dry.

All these colours

were made by
mixing Prussian
Prussianblue blue and carmine.

to mix alot of ''.,

one colour,put a
little water into a
container and
mix the paint
Carmine into it.
 WATERCOLOURS

Experimenting
with watercolours
WATERCOLOURPAPER

Watercolours can be used in lots of different

ways. Experiment with thesetechniqueson
piecesof scrapwatercolour paper.

Paintinga wash

L. Mix up plenty 2. Use a thick 3. Paint another 4. Carryon

of paint in a brush to paint a stripe below the adding more
container.You broad stripe first one, before it stripes down the
need enough to acrossthe top of has had a chance paper until it is
cover your PaPer. the paper. to dry. covered.

Liftingoff paint

Before the paint Lift off some of You can also lift Try using a clean
dries in your the paint with a off paint with a spongetoo. If you
wash, use a scrunched rp clean brush. Dry dab it on the
cotton bud to lift tissue. This gives it on a paper paint, you get a
off some paint. a different effect. towel first. textured effect.
Wet papereffects

Wet a piece of Try the same Paint a wash in Paint a wash.

paper with a thing but use two one colour. Before Drop blobs of
sponge or thick colours.The it dries, paint a clean water onto
brush. Paint small colours will bleed stripe in a the paint and let
blobs on it. into each other. different colour. it spread.

Colourblends

1. Wipe a clean, 2. Mix two 4. Turn the paper

wet sponge across different colours third of the paper upside down and
your paper to of watercolours with a wash in paint on a second
make it wet. on a palette. one colour. wash of colour.

5. Brush across Try blendingthree

colourstogether.
the paper to blend
the colours where
they meet.
This picture has
1€ a colour-blended
sky. The trees
were painted on
wet paper.
 WATERCOLOUR
PAINTS
I

Paintingon wet paper

WATERCOLOUR
PAPER

The paint will spread.

Before you do the
project on these
pages/try out this
technique on some
sParescrap Paper. L. Put three 2. Use a spongeor 3. Brush short,
colours of a big cleanbrush light strokes of
watercolour paint to paint water all colour onto the
on a palette. over the paper. wet paper.
Experiment with
different combinations Let the secondcolour
of colours. run into the first one.

4. Wet another 5. Try another

Lemon
piece of paper. sample with three
yelloq cobalt Use two different colours of paint.
blue and colours of paint. Let the colours run.
green.

Windmillsand a canal

L. Mix patchesof 2. Use a spongeor 3. Brush short, 4. Add strokesof

two different a cleanbrush to strokesof one of the other blue and
blues and green wet the bottom the blues, all over green.Let them
watercolour paint. half of the paper. the wet area. run into each other.

5. Wet the paper 6. When the paint 7. Use the tip of a 8. Use green to
at the top. Paint a has dried, paint a thin brush to add paint the leavesin
pale blue wash green stripe and lines for the the foreground.
for the sky. windmill shapes. windmills' sails. Add red tulips.
L*,..
The sea in these pictures was painted first, then
the sky was added. Details were added with
watercolours once the background had dried.
WATERCOLOURS

Waterpainting
WATERCOLOUR
ORTHICKCARTRIDGE
PAPER

This is another
idea which shows
how watercolour
paints spread on
wet paper. The paint
spreadsup to
the outline.
Before you start,
mix a tiny amount L. Paint the outline 2. Mix some other 3. Add other
of blue paint with of a simple shape colours. While the blobs of colour so
a little water to with the watery shape is still wet, that they run
make a very paint. Fill in the paint a blob of together. Leave it
watery paint. shape with water. colour inside it.

Paint the trunk

of the tree first,
then the leaves.

Paint the butterfly's

feelerswith a thin
brush.
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WATERCOLOURS

ANY KIND OF THICK PAPER

Blowpaintings

1. Mix two 2. Pour some of 3. Placea straw 4. As you blow,

colours of paint each colour onto above the middle 'chase' the paint
with water. Make papet close of the paint and outwards to make
them runny. together. blow very hard. spiky shapes.

5. Keep on 6. Gently blot the 7. Then, go around 8. Leave to dry.

blowing the paint middle of the paint and around wiping Then" paint eyes
out in different with the corner of the paint into the on the face with a
directions. a damp rag. shape of a face. -
fine brush.

9. Paint eyebrows
and a nose.Add
thin lips and
spiky ears.

Use
contrasting
colours,such
as blue and
green,red
orange
or red and
purple.
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WATERCOLOURS

Paintingskies
wArERCoLouR PAPER
Cloudy sky
Watercolours are very
good for painting skies
and clouds. Before
painting a picture
experiment with some
of the ideas shown here.
Use different shadesof 1. Wet the paper with a 2. For flrffy clouds, use
blue to suggestdifferent spongeor brush. Paint a the corner of a tissueto
types of sky. wash of cobalt blue. dab off patchesof paint.

Differenttypesof SKY I

Paint a wash Paint a yellow

with two and orange
shades of wash.
blue for a
'heavy'sky.
Add
the trees
when the
wash has
dried.

For rain Paint a

clouds, dab purple wash,
off paint, thei dab off
then add a colour with
darker line a tissue and
along the a brush.
bottom of
each cloud.

A stormysky
Thesestepsshow
you how to paint
a dark, stormy #,"'
sky.
F
You will need
; i

Prussian blue,
burnt umber and L. Use a thick 2. Mix Prussian 3. Blob the grey
yellow ochre brush or clean blue with burnt paint in patches
watercolours for spongeto wet the umber to make onto the top part
this picture. paper all over. dark grey. of the paper.
4. Add some 5. Mix different 6. Carry on adding 7. Let the sky dry
patchesof yellow shadesof green more greens.Let a little, then paint
ochre with the tip (seepage9). Add them bleed into a castle,using the
of vour brush. them at the bottom. the grey sky. grey from step 2.
WATERCOLORS

Saltpaintings
WATERCOLORPAPER

If you sprinkle salt

onto watercolor
paint, the salt soaks
up the colo{, and
leavesa grainy
effect when it dries.
1. Paint a whale, 2. Before the paint 3. As the paint
Paint quickly, as then paint stripes has dried, dries, it soaksup
the paint has to for the sea,leaving sprinkle lots of the salt. Leave
be wet when you a spacebetween salt over all over the paint and
sprinkle on the salt. the stripes. the paper. salt to drv.

The salt has been left on this

painting, giving the
background a sandy, textured
effect.
Paintthings
aroundthe whale.
Keeptheir shapes
4. Shakeoff any simple.
excesssalt, then
either rub off all
the salt or leave
some of it on.
Addinshishlights
Highlights make pictures come to life.
They can also make things look shiny, as
if they are made of glassor metal. Here
are two ways of adding highlights. If you Adding
are painting with watercolours, always highlights make
do the highlights by leaving a space. things such as
this bird's eye,
look shiny.
Paperhighlights

3
1. Draw two circles.Fill 2. Use darker paint to 3. Fitt the eye with
in the inner one, leaving outline the eye. Go over orangepaint. Add
a small diamond-shaped the inner circle, leaving blueish-greylines below
space.Paint around the another spacebesidethe the eye to give the eye
outside of the larger circle. first one. socketsome shape.

Addingwhite

1. Draw a robot's 2. Add some white 3. Mix in some 4. Wash your

body. Paint over paint to the black. more white paint. brush well, then
your drawing Paint lines inside Fill in the parts add white lines
with black paint. all the shapes. shown here. inside eachshape.

White can be added

to any colourto
make highlights.
rtc
 This backgroundwas
painted with very watery
acrylic paint. The robots
were added on top when
the paint had dried.

a
Paintingperspective
Painting pictures in
perspectivemeansdoing
them the way your eye
seesthem. Colours -\ -.'^r*--l\
\-
appear to fade the further 't----- .r'

away they are. Use any

kind of paint and thick
paper for painting the 1. Draw outlines of hills 2. Mix a little blue and a
pictures on thesepages. in pencil. Start with the spot of red with some
one closestto vou. water. Fill in the sky.

3. Add a little more blue 4. Add more blue and red 5. Carry on adding more
to the paint. Fill in the to make the paint darker. blue and red paint until
furthest hills. Fill in the next hill. all the hills are filled in.
This picture was painted in watercolours on watercolour paper.
This picture was created by painting the houses,
sea, curtain and hills first. The window frame
and cat were painted once the rest were dry.
Chalkpastels
Chalk pastels,or soft pastels,are very
soft and they smudge easily.This means
that you can get some great effectsby Hold a pastel like
mixing and blending them. a pencil and use
the end to draw
marks like the
zigzags,above.

Lay the pastel

flat on the paper.

You can also draw

with the side of a
pastel.Snap it in
half and peel off
any paPer.

Mixingcolours Blending

1. You can also 2. Then, smudge

blend pastels. the colours
Draw overlapping together with a
strokes in finger. This gives
different colours. a soft effect.
@
You can mix Experiment with If you don't want
pastelson your the order in which to get your
paper by doing you use the pastels. fingers messy,
strokes one on top Do you get then use a cotton
of the other. different colours? bud instead.
 colours
Graduating Brokencolours

. . . . . . * . .
The coloursmix
in the middle.

1. Starting at the 2. Do more 1. Start in the 2. Fill in some of

top, use the side strokes,with middle. Draw lots the spaceswith
of a pastel to do another pastel. of short strokesin other short
strokesacross Overlap some of one colour around strokes in
your Paper. the first colour. a central point. different colours.

Dottedpictures

1..Use the end of 2. Draw a line of 3. Draw yellow 4. Use different

orange and red light blue and and orange shadesof blue for
pastelsto draw dark blue strokes strokes around the sky and the
short strokes for acrossthe middle the sun. Add sea.Add pink
a sun. of the sun. some in the skv. strokestoo.

Paperfor pastels Pastelswork

You can get some good effectswith The paper below very well on
is called Ingres black paper.
pastelsif you draw on coloured paper. paper. Art shops
For the best results, use paper which and stationers sell
has a slightly rough or textured surface. it.
Sugarpaper
is good and
it's also
cheap.
 _,,."\.r..,

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,n"o*].iL".,,
your picture

E. Draw a grey line 9. Draw different 10.Lay a pieceof 11.Draw moons

acrossyour paPer. sizes of circles and scrapPaperover and stars in the
Add red and yellow lots of wavy lines the bottom part of sky. Then gently
stripesaboveit. in the foreground. your picture. blend them in.

12.Draw clouds on
the horizon with
grey or a mixture
of black and white.

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":' .

1"3.Use yellow to
add a wavy
highlight along
eachcloud.

14.Blend the
foreground,but
leavethe clouds
as they are.
CIIALK PASTELS
i-

Morechalktechniques
Thesepagesshow you two Experiment with Rememberthe colour
more techniquesfor mixing different shapes,
patterns and
,**t of the paper you draw
on affects the colours
colourswith chalk pastels. colours. the pastels make.
In both techniques,you
don't rub the colours to
blend them; the coiours
mix where they overlap.

Blocking
Use the side of a chalk
pastelto fill in areasof
colour.This is know as '\,."
S&
blocking.Then go over
the top with another
colour of pastel.

Hatching
Use the end of a pastel
to build up layers of
short diagonallines.Try
using different
combinationsof colours. Try hatching , .'
on top of a :'',,
block of
Landscape colour.

1. Use the side of 2. Add patchesof 3. Use the side of 4. Add hatching
a turquoise chalk pale blue to the red, yellow and on top of each
pastelto block in sky. Then, some orangepastelsto tree with different
the sky. Leave dark blue over fill in the shapeof colours. Let them
gapsfor the trees. the top. the trees. merge together.
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green,yellow and
orangepastelsto
add stripesbelow
the sky.

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on top of the
stripes.Make
them get longer
in the foreground.

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7. Use the end of a
black pastelto
draw a line below
the trees.Add
branches,too. ,rt ui
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OIL PASTELS

Oil pastels
Oil pastelsgive you very bright, strong
colors.They don't smudge in the way chalk
pastelsdo. This makesthem easierto use.You
can do lots of the samethings with oil pastels
that you can do with chalk pastels. 'Use
them
Like chalk pastels, Try doing short on their
oil pastels work well strokes in the side to fill in
on colored paper same direction areas of color.
which has a slightly in different Peel off the paper
textured surface. colors. : and break them in
half, first.
Try doing lots
of overlapping
strokes in
different
colors.

You can
draw on
black paper
with oil
Mixing pastels, although
the colors you
colors get may
A white oil pastel change
shows up well on slightly.
brightly colored
paper.

To mix ccllors,use one color crntop

of another (seethe tiger
opposiLr').
- The colors A:r
blenclt'geth*r. *"?l *:il:;
bristol paper ,
constructionpaper
or newsprint paper.
A tigerin longgrass

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1. Draw a straight 2. Add hills above 3. Fill in parts of 4. Use the side of
purple line about the line. Fill in the the hills n'ith gra!, an orange pastel
a third of the way sky with pale blue to make them look to fill in the
down the paper. and white. far away. foreground.

5, Draw the 6. Add patterns 7. Let the black 8. Draw lots of

outline of a tiger on the fur with stripesblend with long grassin front
on top of the orange,yellow the other colours of the tiger with
foreground. and black. where they overlap. greensand brown.

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Colourandpatterns
Oil pastels give you
strong, vibrant colours.
Use them to experiment
with colours. Try putting
different colours together
The blue square in the
yellow square looks
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The green in the red
square appears to be
and seehow one colour brighter than the same stronger than the same
affects another. blue in the grey. green in'the grey square.

Experimenting
with colours

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Try putting
different hot
Try cold colours,
such as greens
Try hot and cold
colours, in thick
m
Experiment with
bright and pale
colourstogether. and blues. and thin stripes. colours together.

Try dark colours,

such as blue,
purple and brown.
Do alternate
stripes of dark
il
and light colours.
Draw spots along
the stripes. Make
Draw thin lines
or zigzags along
then different sizes. some stripes.

A cardidea

L. Draw a large 2.Draw yellow 3. Outline the 4. Draw a red

box with a purple triangles. Fill in triangles with a fence.Add a
pastel. Draw an between them darker green.Add purple line down
orangebox inside. with green. red dots. one side.
5. Draw the hen's 6. Add the beak, 7. Fill in the sky. 8. Add some
body and colour plumage, tail and Add some shading black lines to the
it in. Leave a feet. Fill them in with darker blue hen's body.
blank circle for and add stripes to andpurple around Outline the eye
the eye. the feet. the edges. and add a pupil.
OIL PASTELS

Oil pasteleffects
ANY WHITE PAPER

Stainedglasseffect
Draw the
outlinein
pencil
first if
you want
to.

1. Fold your paper in 2. Fold the paper in half 3. Unfold the paper. Use
hall then open it out. again, then rub all over the pastel to draw over
Draw half a butterfly one side with the handle the faint outline of the
with a black oil pastel. of a pair of scissors. other half of the butterfly.

4. Draw leaves in the

background. Paint inks
in the sectionsbetween
all the outlines.
Inkoutlines
Leave a gap between each section.

1. Follow steps1-3on 2. Paint all over your 3. Use the edgeof a

page 74,but use a pencil picture with a bright screwdriver to scratch
to draw the outline. Fill colour of ink. It will fill details on the butterfly's
in the spacesbetween the the gaps between the wings and on the leaves
outline with oil pastels. coloured sections. in the background.
 WAX CIRAYONS

Waxresistrubbings
T H l N W H I T EP A P E R

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Moreresisteffects
ANY THICKPAPER

1. Using bright wax 2. Use different crayons 3. Add sometrees.Use

crayons,draw a to draw buildings. Add bright crayons to colour
patterned stripe near the lots of domes,towers in the walls and roofs of
bottom of the paper. and windows. the buildings.

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4. Paint all over the 5. Dab a damp, 6. Leave it to dry. Then,

picture with a dark crumpled cloth over the scratchpatterns and
shadeof ready-mix or waxy parts to lift off shading into the crayon
posterpaint. someof the paint. with a fingernail.

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Crackedwax effect
THIN PAPER,SUCHAS TYPINGPAPER

This is a different resist

techniqueusing wax ,::;$

crayons.It works best J

if your picture covers
the paper.

Cracksappear in the
crayonedparts when you
screw up the paper (see
step 3). Theseallow the 1. Draw a flower in a pot
w
2. Fill in the background
paint to seepthrough, with wax crayons.Colour with crayon. Presshard
leaving a crackedeffect. them in, pressinghard. and leaveno gaps.

3. Crumple the paper in 4. Open out the paper. 5. Flatten your picture.
from the corners.Be Crumple it again, so that Paint all over with dark
careful not to tear it. you get lots of cracks. poster paint or ready-mix.

Use a warm
setting on
your iron.

6. Make sure that you 7. Rinseboth sidesunder 8. If your picture is

have brushed paint into a tap. Let the water drip crinkly, iron it between
all the cracks. off. Leave it to drv. two piecesof newspaper.
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Spattered
PAPER,
COLOURED SUCHAS SUCARPAPEROR POSTER
PAPER

Weight tfie
newspaper
with
small
StOnes.

1. This can be quite 2. Put some 3. Dip an old 4. Pull a ruler

messyso do this ready-mix paint toothbrush into along the brush
outdoors. Put your into a container. the paint. Then, towards you, so
paper onto some Add water to hold the brush the paint spatters
newspaPers. make it runny. over the paper. onto me PaPer.

5. Keepspattering 6. Mix another 7.To get big 8. Flick the brush

more paint on top colour of paint and spatters,dip a" sharply
until you get the spatter it in the household downwardsover
effectyou want. same way on top paintbmshinto the paper.Repeat
Let it dry. of the first one. runny paint. with more paint.
9. Carry on
flicking the paint
until you have the
10.Draw the
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and leaveson the
wffi
L1.Draw some
bu[mshes and a
strip for water on
12. Cut out the
shapesand glue
them onto a piece
pattern you want. back of the big the finelv
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Leave it to drv. spatteredpaper. PaPer.
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ANY THICK PAPER

Tissuepaperpainting
The colours

1. Rip some 2. Put some PVA 3. Glue the tissue 4. Add rnore paper.
shapesfrom glue into a pot. shapesonto white The colours get
different colours Mix in a few paper. Overlap stronger as you
of tissue paper. drops of water. some pieces. build up the layers.

Draw on top of
the tissue paper
You dont need
to outline the
paper exactly.

Add dots
and liaes td
the leaves.
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1..Tearred and 2. Glue one petal. 3. Add three more 4. Cut leavesand
orange tissue Pressit on to a petals.Overlap stems from tissue
paper into large large piece of and crumple the paper.Glue them
petal shapes. white paper. paper in places.

5. Brushglue over 6. When the glue

the poppies.This is completely dry,
makesthem use a thin felt-tip
slightly shiny. to add details.
Moreideas
On these and the next two pages,you will find
lots more ideas which use techniques explained
earlier in this book. The page referencesshow
where to look to find out the methods.

The technique
of blowing ink through a
straw was used for these
fish {seepages5+551.

The picture above has pieces of spattered paper

glued together to make a collage(seepages86-
871.
The flowers and
butterflies below and
hedgehogon page 93,
have all been painted
using different shadesof
ink (see
page 42-4lfl. :
 Ytri5::,:.:.- r: hese do|phins were cut
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from tissue paper,then strips
of tissue paper were glued on
for waves (see pages 88-89).

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The red and orange pattern on the right was

painted with acrylic paints. The dots were
added with a cotton bud {see pages 14-15).

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This lion was done by These

blowing ink and then flowers
painting on top (see were masked
pages 54-55). out. Paint was
sponged around the

These flowers and

leaves are ripped
*ffi;* shapes instead
of spattered (see
pages30-31).
from tissue paper
then glued onto
paper (see pages
88-89).

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like the one in the
jungle scene and the
two pictures below,
sprinkle salt onto wet
watercolour paint. {see
pages 58-591.

This turtle is a collage of patterns scratched This tree is an elastic band

into thick acrylic paint (see pages 10-111. print (seepages24-251.

This snail is
anotheridea
for using
ripped tissue
paper (see
pages88-891.
Index
acrylic paints, 4, 10-21.,94 hand and cardboard prints,26-29 prints, continued
adding highlights, 60-61 hatching,68 hand and cardboard, 26-29
art materials,4-5 highlights, 60-61 pulled cardboard, 32-33
tissue,1,3,25
blends,coloul, 49,64 Ingrespaper,4,65 pulled cardboard prints, 32-33
blending pastels,64 ink,
blow paintings,54-55,92, 94 brush paintings, 42-43,44-45, ready-mix paints, 4, 22-35
broken colours,65 92-93 resist,
brush and ink paintings, 42-43, outlines, 75 effects,80-81
44-45,92-93 inks,5, 40-45 rubbings,TS-79
brushes,6-7 scratched,4l
looking after,T masking out,30-31,94
typesof, 6,7 mixing watercolours,47 salt-paintings, 58-59,95
brushstrokes,6 scratchedresist,41
oil pastels effects,74-75 secondarycolours,36
cardboard and hand prints, 26-29 oil pastels,5,70-75 skies,8,56-57
cards,90 skin colours,9
cartridge paper,4 paint and tissue pape\ 34-35 spattering,30-31,86-87,92
chalk, painting, stained glass effect, 74
pastels,5,64-69 a wash,48
techniques,68-69 perspective,62-63 textured papers,84-85
collage,11,86-87,95 on wet papeq,50-51 tissuepaper,4
colour,8,9,36-37 skies,8,56-57 and paint, 34-35,93
and patterns,T2-73 paints,4 painting, 88-89,93, 94,95
and tone, 38-39 acrylic,4,1,0-21, tissueprints, 13,25
broken,65 ready-mix,4,22-35 tones,
complementary,ST postel,4,22-35 dark,38
cool,37 watercolour, 4, 46-59 experimenting, 38
experimentingwith,T2 palettes,5 light,38
graduattng,64 paper,3,4 reversing,39
greens,9 cartidge,4 similar,39
harmonic,3T Ingres,4, 65 two-tone prints, 18
mixing,8-9 pastel,4,65
primary,36 tissue,4,88,93,94,95 warm colours,3T
secondary,36 watercolour,4, 46 wash, painting a,48
skin,9 wet,40,49,50-51 water painting, 52-53
warm,37 pastel pape44,65 watercolour,
cool colours,3T pastels,5 paper,4,46
cracked wax effect, 82-83 blending,64 paints,4,46-59
crayons/wax,5,76-83 chalk, 5,64-69 watercolours,
oil,5,70-75 experimenting with, 48-49
elasticband prints, 24-25,95 pens,5 rnixing,4T
perspective,painting, 62-63 wax crayons,5,76-83
frames,91 poster paints,4,22-35 wax resist rubbings, 78-79
primary colours,36 wet paper,
glue pictures,"l.6-17 printing patterns, 18-21 effects,40,49
graduating colours,65 prints, painting on,50-51
greens,mixing,9 elasticband, 24-25,95
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