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I wanted to paint my old hand bags with flowers inspired by Boyarde and Heart Evangelista (both famous artists for using designer bags as their canvas), using acrylic painting. So today, I thought of sharing a step by step process through using a simple one stroke painting.

What Is One Stroke Painting

A painting technique where double and multi-loading is used to achieve highlights, shadows and color changes using one stroke or one direction.

Using one stroke technique makes the painting easy and fun specially for beginners. Let's go and paint that canvas!

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Materials:

Paint Brush: Flat wash brush and round brush
Acrylic colors: Cobalt green, titanium white, black, ultra marine blue
Painting palette
Old painted canvas
water

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Five Minutes One Stroke Flower Painting

Step 1: I Start by sketching the shape of the flower using a pencil.

Step 2: Dabbed the half upper part of the flat wash brush on the white color and 3/4th of lower part of the brish on the blue color. (This will create a blue white colors.)

Step 3: Lay the brush on the canvas and start making a tiny zigzags in a curve shape from left to right.

Step 4: Use the small round brush to create a black and white polen by simply dabbing into the center of the flower.

Step 5: I used the same one stroke technique to create the leaves. Tiny zigzag strokes and release.

Step 6: Then I highlighted the flower by using the tiny round detailed brush with black. (Highlighting the subject gives it more contrast and exposure.

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Five Minutes Butterfly Painting

Step 1: To paint a butterfly, I started on sketching.

Step 2: I paint the body with black using a detailed brush and the wings with burt umber colors . I didn't like the outcome so I mixed some titanium white into the burt umber to create a nude color.

Step 3: When the nude is completely dry, I added more bright colors of red, yellow and white.

Thank you for reading!. I hope you enjoyed this simple flower and butterfly painting idea Steemian!

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