I SEE A FISH by Sandra Malone EXCLUSIVE
I See A Fish by Sandra Malone PALETTE Deco Art Americana Acrylics Bosenberry Pink #13029 Calypso Blue #13234 Cotton Candy #13287 Deep Blush (Shading Flesh)* Deep Burgundy #13128 Dioxazine Purple #13101 Hauser Medium Green #13132 Indian Turquoise #13087 Lamp (Ebony) Black #13067 Lemonade* Natural Buff #13547 Olive Green #13056 Orange Twist #13256 Peaches n Cream #13023 Pumpkin #13013 Purple Rain #13560 Scarlet #13295 Snow (Titanium) White #13001 Spa Blue #13267 Tangelo Orange #13196 Terra Coral #13286 Terra Cotta #13062 Tomato Red #13169 Traditional Burnt Umber #13221 Warm Beige (Flesh Tone) #13078 Whispering Turquoise #13537 Wild Orchid #13233 *Discontinued by DecoArt SURFACE Large Painter's Palette #63162 Medium Painter's Palette #63164 BRUSHES Papillon by the Artists Club Shader size 12 #20131 Shader size 10 #20130 Shader size 8 #20129 Shader size 4 #20126 Shader size 2 #20125 Script Liner size 10/0 #20137 MISC. SUPPLIES Old tooth brush for spattering Soft Grip Embossing & Stylus set of 3 #70125 Large Sanding Pad Fine/Medium #70796 White Graphite Paper 18x36 #70139 Gray Graphite Paper 18x36 #70141 Tack Cloth 18 x 36 #70104 Pro Art Tracing Roll #83175 Pro Art Tracing Pad #83176 Assorted Circles-Bottle tops, Pencil tops (without eraser) Medicine bottle tops, etc. PREPARATION If your surface is wood, sand it and wipe it with a tack cloth. I did not seal these because I wanted washes on the background. PAINTING INSTRUCTIONS I usually dampen my surface with water and try to blend my colors wet into wet for the background. For the blue fish, I washed Indian Turquoise, Whispering Turquoise, Spa blue, and Calypso Blue (sparingly) over the background, softening the colors together as I went. I tried to keep Spa Blue up in the area around the mermaid. Spatter Snow White. Using your assortment of circle bottle tops, and the rings in various places. The way that I do a ring with more than one color is, I brush paint on half of the bottle top, and a different color on the other half, then place it on your surface. Lift and repaint another area. I used snow White, Lemonade, Orange Twist for my main colors. You can add a few variations using Hauser Medium Green, Wild Orchid, any of your blues, etc. I floated Lemonade about half way around inside some of the circles. You can float a highlight on top of the Lemonade using Snow White on a couple of them also. Large Painter's Palette FISH FACE Basecoat Olive Green, filling in between the circles at the neckline. Highlight the front of the fish face with Lemonade. The eye is Lamp Black, highlighted Calypso Blue, and then add a Snow White sparkle. The ring outside the eye is Calypso Blue, highlighted at the top with Indian Turquoise, and then Spa Blue. Float Hauser Medium Green (thin) under the eye. Her top lip is Bosenberry Pink, and the lower lip is Tomato Red. Float Deep Burgundy across the top area of the lower lip. Highlight the top lip with a float of Cotton Candy. 2 artistsclub.com
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MERMAID Base coat her face, arms and body Warm Beige (Flesh Tone). Shade with a mix of Warm Beige plus a small amount of Deep Blush (Shading Flesh). Highlight her arms, back, and lower face with Natural Buff. Her eyeline is Traditional Burnt Umber. Her cheeks are a mix of Warm Beige plus Terra Coral. Her nose and smile are Terra Coral. Add a touch of Deep Burgundy inside her lower lip. HAIR Puddle a few spots of water in various places over her hair area. Pick up Wild Orchid (thin) and move this around over her hair. Allow to dry. Sideload your brush in Terra Cotta and float closer to her head. Add curls and linework using Traditional Burnt Umber. Add some blue tints to your linework. Spatter slightly with Snow White. MERMAID SUIT These are colors that you will put in next to each other, and soften them together. Don t overwork them. Use Olive Green, Calypso Blue, Lemonade, and Purple Rain. As you get to her tail area, just stay with Olive Green. Highlight the tail with Lemonade, and then Snow White. The linework is Lemonade. Add Lemonade linework (half moon strokes) to her suit. Come back with a small brush sideloaded in a tint of color, and float in the half moon strokes. Try to compliment the color underneath. Indian Turquoise over Calypso Blue. Lemonade over Olive Green, etc. Float Lemonade on the scallop (next to her body) on the top of her suit. Add linework using Lamp Black. FISH The fish that she is holding has a face of Olive Green, highlighted Lemonade, and shaded slightly with Hauser Medium Green. The body is Purple Rain, shaded Dioxazine Purple. Highlight Wild Orchid. Wisp Calypso Blue, and then Whispering Turquoise for a tint. The lower fin is Lemonade. The top lip is Boysenberry Pink. The lower lip is Tomato Red. The eye is Lamp Black with a tiny Snow White highlight. The bubbles are a circle of Snow White. Float Snow White inside the bubbles, and float Indian Turquoise outside the bubble. Add a tiny Snow White highlight dot to them. ASSORTED FISH The light green fish are Lemonade, shaded Olive Green. Highlight the top and their fins Snow White. The dark green fish is Olive Green, shaded Hauser Medium Green, and highlighted Lemonade. The body fin is Lemonade, and the outside fins are Snow White. The orange fish is Orange Twist, shaded Tangelo Orange. Highlight and add fins using Snow White. The purple fish has a body of Purple Rain, shaded Dioxazine Purple. Wisp Calypso Blue, and then Whispering Turquoise for a tint. The head is Wild Orchid, shaded on the lower edge with Purple Rain. All of the eyes are Lamp Black. Medium Painter's Palette GOLD FISH Paint the face Peaches n Cream. Float shading next to the body using Pumpkin. The eye is Lamp Black. Float Calypso Blue for a highlight. Add Snow White for a sparkle highlight. Outline the eye with Calypso Blue. Highlight the line at the top with Indian Turquoise. Float Tangelo Orange under the eye. The top lip is Bosenberry Pink. The lower lip is Tomato Red, shaded at the top (just under the top lip) with Deep Burgundy. BODY Dampen this area with water. Add colors and mottle them together just enough to slightly blend where they meet. Use Orange Twist, and Tangelo Orange. Float Scarlet around the open circle. Float Scarlet next to the face. Repeat if needed. Float Tomato Red at the top of her head where the splash is. When you are happy with your colors, then spatter with Orange Twist. The circles around the opening are Orange Twist. I used the top of a pencil for these (with the eraser removed). All of the large and small bubbles are Peaches n Cream, highlighted Snow White. The line dividing the face and body is Lamp Black. GREEN FIN Dampen the background with water, and begin to lay in washes of Olive Green, Lemonade, and a small area of Hauser Medium Green. Soften the colors together where they meet. Spatter with Lemonade. Add circles to the right side by painting colors on a bottle top (or something of your choice) using Lemonade, Spa Blue, Orange Twist, and Calypso blue. Float Indian Turquoise on one side of the circle. Float thin Hauser Medium Green outside the circle, not all the way around. For the wave design, load your larger brush in Indian Turquoise and side load it in Calypso blue. Work the brush back and forth on your paper palette to slightly blend. Add in the wave keeping the darker blue at the bottom. The strokes and bubbles are dirty brush mixes of Indian Turquoise and Spa Blue. Highlight them and the bubbles with Snow White. WHITE TAIL AREA Base coat Snow White. The black stripe is Lamp Black. FINISHING Spray varnish your paintings several times allowing to dry inbetween sprays. artistsclub.com 5
Pattern at 100% 1" x 1" To ensure your pattern is at 100%, this box should measure 1" x 1" when printed. 6 artistsclub.com
Pattern at 100% 1" x 1" To ensure your pattern is at 100%, this box should measure 1" x 1" when printed. artistsclub.com 7
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