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Textured Backgrounds & Blooming Florals: A Playful Painting Tutorial
By Karen (Over the Artsy Moon)
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Beginner
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2025
About this lesson
Makes a textured magenta background by dabbing with plastic wrap and working in green and white, then paints stems and leaves with an angle brush, layers magenta and peach petals with dotted centres, and adds tinted highlights. Each of the four stages is shown with progress photos.
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