How To Paint: a bit of colour

Sunday! Sunday! If you can, and are so inclined, it?áis a great day to relax with a dash of painting. Last week we saw?áHow To Paint a little light. This week we will?áadd?áa bit of?ácolour to?áit.

Each Sunday, artist Natasha Henderson?áwill guide you through some simple ÔÇ£How ToÔÇØ tips for painting. Having been (honestly) inspired at a young age by the oft-spoofed televised artist Bob Ross, Natasha would like to offer some simple tips on How To Paint Stuff.

The very first thing to do is to choose your colour. In this case I selected red. If you have painted a strand of lights, you could opt to do them all in different colours?áusing this same technique. Find the black and white painting that you made last week…

?áNext, paint the red onto the light.

You?ámight take note that I didn’t paint this red so thickly… it has a little water in it. This is so that the black paint from last week will show through.?áHowever, black?áand white will always have an effect on the?ácolourful paint placed on top of it. I encourage you to just experiment with your paints.

Next, paint a little bit of the colour onto the cords.

Now, water down the red paint in your palette a bit more. Use this watered-down paint to brush around the light-source. Leave a poetic amount of white?áspace just around the bulb.

Once the paint is a bit dried, add a little blob of solid white into the middle of the light. You will see that I put two little blobs; it is more convincing as an electrical light source that way.

Done! So next week we will try something that?áI mentioned?áin another article: we will paint an egg.

Paint on! Paint?áon.

Natasha Henderson, Montreal
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