These patterns may only be used for the Memory Box project.
The patterns have been donated by the authors for this use only.

Peaceful Garden

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by: Lisa Davis TOP artist © 2000

Supplies:

Prepare your surface. Apply pattern.

Painting Instructions:

SKY: Slip slap Stonewedge & Blue Jay onto surface. Let Dry. Lightly dampen sky with clean water and wash with Wisteria here and there.

HINT: If you have trouble getting your sky to look smooth with graduated, blended colors, try basing with Blue Jay, let dry, apply thin layer of
blending medium and proceed to slip slap with Stonewedge & Wisteria until you get the effect you want.

GRASS: Base with Hunter Green (Highlighting and shading will be done last)

CLAY POT: Base with Spice Brown. Float shading with Burnt Umber. Slip slap Hunter Green in center area at top of pot where flowers and leaves will be.

MOSS ON CLAY POT: Stipple Hunter Green in random pattern on pot. Stipple highlights with Leprechaun & Accent Sage.

CRACK ON CLAY POT: Lined with Black

BUNNY: Base bunny in Bambi, then float highlights and shadows BEFORE lining the hair.

NOSE: Base medium Flesh & highlight with Ivory

EYE: Base pupil black & highlight with Rhythm 'N Blue with #6 shader on lower left edge. Use stylus to place White dot in upper left of the pupil. Iris is based in Ivory. Let iris dry and apply thin wash of Spice Brown. Let dry again and float Spice Brown shading in lower left area of iris. Highlight each corner of the eye with White. Line top lid with black and lower lid with Spice Brown.

SHADING: Float shading with Burnt Umber on body of rabbit in areas shown in pattern (under arm, under jaw, between and behind ears,behind hip and
above feet under the hip, btween tail and body, and under lip). Shading inside ear is floated with Spice Brown.

HIGHLIGHT: Float Ivory on bunny's back, top of head, top of arms and feet.

FUR: Lining of fur is done with thinned paint and 0 size script liner brush. Use thinned Burnt Umber, Ivory, Spice Brown, & White in layers. Follow pattern lines for size and direction of line strokes on the bunny. He has longer, lighter, curly fur on chest, abdomen and side of body, and shorter, darker fur on legs, head, feet and ears. Be sure to pull some of the hairs beyond the body, and over top of the shaded areas to make him appear more dimensional and fluffy.

PANSIES: Base with Royal Plum. Float highlights with Wisteria. Let dry. Then, "Super" highlight with white here and there (I call these ZINGERS. Then float black shading to inside middle, of top petal and under where petals overlap another pansy.

PANSY CENTERS: Use a double-loaded float of Rhythm 'N Blue (wide) and Royal Plum (narrow). Apply with the blue to the center and the plum to the
outside of the bottom petals and two side petals only. (None on the top petal)Using larger end of a stylus or end of a small paint brush, apply a dot of Luscious Lemon to the center of each pansy. LET THIS DOT DRY COMPLETELY before proceeding to the next step. Now apply lines in Black, Luscious Lemon and Blue Jay from the center out, of bottom petal of each pansy. With White, pull a polly wog up each side edge of the Luscious Yellow dot. Place a smaller dot of Golden brown at the top edge of the Luscious Yellow dot. Side petals only have lines in Blue Jay (if any at all). Use randomness to keep a variety. Even nature is not perfectly even when it comes to flowers.

PANSY LEAVES: Base with Hunter Green. Scallops of leaves are highlighted with a float of Leprechaun and "Zingers" of Accent Sage. Shading is floated here and there with Black where leaves come from under petals.

GRASS: Using 0 size liner, pull line strokes of Hunter Green up into sky area, up and over areas of the bunny body and up and over areas of the clay pot. Using the same method, pull grass line strokes of Leprechaun and Accent Sage randomly over the foreground area.

FOREGROUND: Stipple here and there with Royal Plum and Wisteria.

HINT: When working withFlora and Fauna (grass, leaves,trees,brush,flowers) I always try to bing some of the colors of the main flowers into the foreground area. In this design, I pulled the purples of the pansies down into the foreground area by stippling tiny, non-distinct, unidentifiable flowers. This helps to pull your painting together. This is also the reason I put some of the Wisteria into the sky color. If you like, you can add a few stipples of the Rhythm 'N Blue and the Blue Jay and Luscious Lemon to the foreground also.

Happy Painting! If you have any questions or suggestions, please e-mail me and I will do what I can. Thanks. Lisa

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