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Start Art 5 39 www.painters-online.co.uk 16 While the outline is still wet, drop clean water into the centre of the leaf and encourage the blue outline to blend into the water, leaving a light centre to the leaf 17 Make a mix of cadmium lemon and quinacridone gold with a touch of indigo. Drop it in wet-in-wet as the blue paint starts to dry. Add a touch of indigo for shading at the edges 18 Paint the other half of the leaf in the same way, leaving a thin white border between the two 19 Paint the remaining leaves with the same technique, paying attention to which parts of the leaves are in the shade 20 Add more cadmium lemon to the green mix and paint in the buds at the top of the painting, adding rose lake wet-in-wet for the side in shadow. Finally, add fine detail to the bud with the dark green mix used on the leaves 21 Pull the dark shade down the stem and then, without washing your brush, pick up some rose lake and restate the whole stem. Soften the transition between the shading and main colour with a little water ✎ T I P Where the stem is green, shade it with dark red. Where the stem is red, shade it with dark green