Hello crafty friends,
Today I am here to share with you a simple, yet beautiful form of painting called the One Stroke painting. Well, I am no great expert at it, but if you are craft enthusiast like me, then this one would be worth a try.
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For this technique, you would be using a FLAT brush. Dip each corner into a puddle of paint, work back and forth on your palette to blend the colors. This is double loading, but you can load your brush with just a single color if you wish. But I personally feel the beauty is when the two colors blend.
Start on the chisel edge (tip of your brush), apply pressure gently as you make an arc pulling to your right for an inverted U stroke in one direction, and as you pull downward lift the pressure on your brush until you are back on the chisel edge.
I know it’s hard to understand, but here are a few pictures which might help you understand.
In the above picture I have loaded the brush with two colors, white and pink. I tried repeating the stroke, so it would get a little more clear and self-explanatory.
The above picture sample also the same stoke but this time I have stopped the stroke half way and then again did an inverted u shape to get a different shape to the petal.
These two pictures are samples of flowers where I have used a simple comma like stroke, with a flat brush loaded with two colours.
Now that we have got some ideas on how we could paint some different types of flowers, let’s try some leaves.
For the leaf, I painted each leaf in two parts. Each stroke is a combination of multiple short strokes. Repeat the stroke in the opposite half of the leaf.
Now, let us look at some samples where I have tried to make some floral arrangements with the above cited strokes and combinations.
Now you must be wondering that I have reached only half the title. No more waiting, here is the final product. I have recycled some glass bottles, cleaned them thoroughly and given two even coats of black paint. For the base black coat, you could also spray paint them if you want a good finish. Once the base coat is dry, I have done some one stroke painting on them. Here they go…
I hope my post inspired you. Get creative, you could try this form of painting on a piece of wood, a plain boring table cloth or anything you could think of. Do let me know if you liked the post.
Will be back with some more inspiration. Happy crafting.
Regards
Ranjitha.
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