Artist Donna Dewberry demonstrates her original One Step technique for painting a wisteria wall border
(figure A).
Materials:
brushes (scruffy ones and a variety of flat ones, including script liner)
water
paper towels
acrylic paints (guest used yellow, green, white, berry wine and purple)
floating medium
Steps:
- Dip a flat brush with a chisel edge in water, then on a paper towel to let the excess water run out.
- Pick up yellow and green paint and work the paint in well (figure B), before adding floating medium (available from art-supply houses), which helps keep the paint smooth and workable.
- Begin by making a wavy, vine-shaped line down the center of the border area. Repeat, making another vine that crosses the first vine in opposite directions. Make the design broad.
- To make leaves, begin on chisel edge, push down and flatten the brush a couple of times, then pull and lift to create the leaf tip (figure C).
- For a rosebud, load berry wine and white on the brush, make two lines, push the brush into one line, then arch over to the other (figure D).
- Repeat the process going in a downward arch, then drop down and repeat the downward arch another time or two. These strokes should all be made with a flat brush. Add a couple of strokes on either side with the chisel edge of the brush.
- Use a dry scruffy brush and pounce hard into the white, then into the purple, then pounce near blossoms to create the wisteria blossoms.
- Dip script line brush into water, then into green color two or three times to create very delicate accent vines.
Guests Donna Dewberry
Artist/Owner, Dewberry Designs
Altamonte Springs, FL
Toll-free: 800-536-2627
E-mail:
email@onestroke.com
Website:
www.onestroke.com
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