How to Paint Flower Stems
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Mix the perfect shade of green.green,green leaf image by saied shahinkiya from Fotolia.com
Dip brush in water and blot it on tissue so that it is damp but not dripping. Mix three parts light green, one part yellow ochre and one part ultramarine blue in a section of the palette. Rinse and blot your brush. - 2
Work from nature.blue flower image by jimcox40 from Fotolia.com
Dip your brush in the paint mixture. Using vertical, upward strokes, paint the desired number of stems with your brush at a slight slant, and so that stems taper slightly at the top. Allow some stems to curve one way or the other, and do not make them all perfectly straight or identical. If one stem curves to the left, paint the next one slightly taller or shorter than the first, and make it curve the other way. Rinse and blot your brush. - 3
Recreate each color on the page.flowers image by Erg??n ?--zsoy from Fotolia.com
Mix three parts medium green, one part ultramarine blue and one part reddish brown. Rinse and blot your brush. - 4
Make each stem look real.flowers image by Bobi from Fotolia.com
Dip your brush in the paint mixture. Choose where the light will be coming from in the painting, and on the opposite side, paint a line of this darker color along the lighter color of the stem to create the illusion of shadow. Rinse and blot your brush. - 5
Show where the light hits.light green flower bud in morning sunlight image by diamond from Fotolia.com
Mix two parts yellow and one part yellow ochre. Add extra water so that the mixture is not so concentrated. On the opposite side of the stem as the shadow, and on the same side from which the light source in your painting shines, apply small, thin lines of this yellow color to provide highlights on the stem. Do not apply highlights uniformly on each stem, and do not apply highlights on the full length of the stem, rather in specific places. Rinse and blot your brush.
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