Materials:
FolkArt Artist's Pigments (Ice Blue, Pure Black, Titanium White, Medium Yellow , Yellow Ochre, Burnt Umber, True Burgundy, Napthol Crimson, Red Light, Prussian Blue )
FolkArt Acrylics (Green, Evergreen, Blue Ribbon, Rose Pink)
brushes (Golden Natural: Series 2002S flat shaders #2, 4, 6, 8; Series 2007S script liner #2)
faux finish brushes (Series 9095S 3" base coat brush, Series 9094S 2"glaze brush, Series 9098-S 1-1/2" flogger brush, Series 9093S 1" varnish brush)
folding table
FolkArt blending gel
FolkArt glazing medium
varnish
paper towels
gray graphite paper
tracing paper
ruler
pencil
sandpaper
primer
Steps:
1. Sand and prime tabletop. Let dry.
2. To create a soft linear fabric weave pattern, mix a strong white glaze by combining 60 percent Titanium White with 40 percent glazing medium. Using a glaze brush to apply this in long strokes following the length of the surface. Immediately pick up the flogger brush and slap/hop the brush along the length of the surface (this creates a fine set of dash marks). Let dry.
3. Trace and transfer chosen fabric designs so they overlap the corner points of a penciled border.
Leaves
1. Base-coat the leaves using a #4 flat brush and two coats of Green, allowing it to dry between layers. Let dry.
2. Create a dark shading green mixture of 70 percent Evergreen plus 30 percent Pure Black. Apply a coat of blending gel to one leaf at a time with a #6 flat brush . Double-load the #4 flat brush with Evergreen and Green. Place the dark shading at the base of the leaf or where it tucks under another and along the right side of the vein. Wipe brush on a paper towel.
3. Double-load (one color on each half of the brush) the same brush with Titanium White and Green and place white along the left side of the vein and along outside edges on the right side of the leaf. Wipe brush on a paper towel.
4. Blend individual vein sections on the leaf with the small flat brush by stroking out at a 45-degree angle from the center vein (blending gel will allow you to blend these colors wet into wet). Sharpen veins using a liner brush or the chisel edge of the flat brush with dark shading green mixture.
Blue Blossom Flowers
1. Base-coat the blossom petals with the #6 flat brush and two coats of Blue Ribbon , allowing it to dry between layers. Let dry. Transfer petal sections again for definition .
2. Place an even coat of blending gel on one petal at a time. Double-load the #8 flat brush with Blue Ribbon and Prussian Blue. Place the Prussian Blue at the base of the petal or where one petal overlaps another. Wipe brush on a paper towel.
3. Double-load the same brush with Ice Blue and Blue Ribbon. Place the Ice Blue on the petal edges and on turning petal edges. Fill in the center of the petal with Blue Ribbon. Wipe brush on a paper towel.
4. To blend the petal, pat blend from the dark shading color into the middle value (wipe brush on a paper towel often). Repeat from the light to middle value but never stroke from the dark all the way into the light value.
Red Blossom Flowers
1. Base-coat the blossom petals with a #6 flat brush and two coats of Napthol Crimson , allowing it to dry between layers. Let dry. Transfer petal sections again for definition .
2. Place an even coat of blending gel on one petal at a time. Create a dark burgundy shading color of 60 percent True Burgundy and 40 percent Burnt Umber. Double-load the #8 flat brush with Napthol Crimson and dark burgundy mixture. Place the dark burgundy at the base of the petal or where one petal overlaps another. Wipe brush on a paper towel.
3. Double-load the same brush with Rose Pink and Napthol Crimson. Place the Rose Pink on the petal edges and on turning petal edges. Fill in the center of the petal with Napthol Crimson. Wipe brush on a paper towel.
4. To blend the petal, pat-blend from the dark shading color into the middle value (wipe brush on a paper towel often). Repeat from the light to middle value but never stroke from the dark all the way into the light value. Add more of any color if losing contrast.
Blossom Centers
1. Base-coat the centers using a #6 flat brush and two to three coats of Medium Yellow, allowing it to dry between layers. Let dry.
2. Shade the left side the center by double-loading a #6 flat brush with Medium Yellow or Yellow Ochre plus a little True Burgundy. Place a "U" stroke of the darker color on the outside edge of the center.
3. Place a smaller double center of Medium Yellow and the Yellow Ochre mix using a #4 flat brush.
4. Highlight the center by placing a "U" stroke with a double-loaded brush of Titanium White and Medium Yellow. Use the #6 flat brush for the highlight on the outside of the large center and the #4 flat for the inner center. Add stamen and pollen dots of thinned Green using the script liner brush.
Border
1. Paint the border with two coats of Red Light, allowing it to dry between layers . Let dry.
2. Paint the pinstripe border using a ruling pen in desired color. Let dry.
3. Apply two coats of varnish for protection.
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