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Material List

Mont Marte Tinted Graphite Paint 30ml

MGRP0001 Grey

MGRP0002 Brown

MGRP0003 Blue

MGRP0004 Red

MGRP0005 Green

MGRP0006 Black

BMHS0003 Mont Marte Kolinsky Sable Brush Set

MPB0025 Mont Marte Brush Squirrel

Traditional Mop

MPN0026 Mont Marte Drawing Set

MEA0003 Mont Marte French Box Easel

MSB0011 Mont Marte A3 Watercolour Pad

MAPL0003 Mont Marte Deep Well Plastic Palette

You will also need:

Water

Australian Flower Still Life

L EVELIntermediate

AGE

12+

It’s Mont Marte Joe here, today I shall

be using Mont Marte Tinted Graphite

Paint to paint some beautiful Australian

native flowers. So grab your Mont

Marte art materials and...

Category: Graphite Paint

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Step 1: Graphite pencil drawing

The first stage is to draw the image. I am directly drawing it

from a still life set up infront of my easel, but you can use a

photo for reference.

If you are not confident with drawing, you can print out the

image supplied and transfer it onto your Watercolour Paper.

This way you can experiment with painting techniques

without worrying about the layout of the picture.

Step 2: Preparing the painting

Any new paint should be tested on the paper you intend to

use. This enables us to see the true colour and get a feeling

of how the paint reacts on paper and with water. It also

gives us a bit of confidence to start the actual painting.

Fill your Mont Marte Deep Well Palette with a little of each

colour and paint a swatch of each colour on a seperate

piece of paper from the same Watercolour Paper.

Step 3: Painting in the background

Use the Squirrel Mop Brush to drag Green across the

top of the page. Wash off the Brush and dip it in to the

water, then drag this through your previously applied

paint and down the page using horizontal strokes. This

thins the paint and creates a smooth blend. Continue

this down the page adding more water as you go,

leave the table and flowers unpainted.

Joe’s Jem

You can create

highlights by using

a brush or tissue

on wet paint to

soak the pigment up.

It’s also helpful when

you make a mistake!

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Step 4: Painting in blocks of colour.

When the background is dry, paint in the top of the table

with a wash of Black. Paint another wash over the shadow

of the vase. Use straight Black to paint the front and side of

the table.

Then paint in the vase in a wash of Blue. Try to vary the

strength of the pigment to create highlights and shadows.

Step 5: Painting the leaves

Build up light coats of Green with a #4 Kolinsky Sable Brush

on the leaves. Then using Brown Tinted Graphite Paint, paint

in the stems and bottle brush.

Use Blue Tinted Graphite Paint on the remaining leaves,

again vary the strength of paint on different leaves to show

depth.

Step 6: Painting the flowers

Paint the flowers with Red. When the Paint is still wet, drop

some Blue in to the centre of each flower to add interest.

Then add spots of pure Red with downward strokes from the

bottom of each dot.

Join us next time and until then...

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