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Start Art 5 50 RT START www.painters-online.co.uk STAGE 1 Tear four lengths of masking tape and stick them onto your watercolour paper to create a ‘mount’ for your picture. Use the torchon, dipped into the masking fluid and, with quick circular movements, position your flowers. Using clean water, wet the entire picture. Whilst still wet drop in wet colour from your palette using hot red, mustard and green aquamarine. The masking fluid will not prevent the flow of the pigment so the colours will escape over the masked areas into the section beyond (wet-in-wet). Whilst still wet use your craft knife and scrape shavings of saddle brown pigment onto the background (dry-on-wet) STAGE 2 Once dry, remove the masking fluid then re-wet the flowers with clean water and drop in some mustard colour using your palette, then sprinkle some speckles onto the wet area using your craft knife. Once dry, remove the masking tape to reveal a nice crisp edge Exercises for you to try Create these simple flower studies using your Inktense water-soluble coloured pencils and masking fluid