Fingerpainted Flowers

Step 1
Roll on two coats of Ben Moore Pear Green to your wall surface, allowing it to dry between coats. Allow to dry.

Step 2
Create a green glaze by mixing 1 1/4 tsp Earth Green into each C. of Aquacreme needed. Note: Coverage will be approx. 400 sq. ft. per gallon. Add about 20% So Slow Extender into your mixed glaze to increase the open (working) time.

Step 3
Use a 4î roller to roll the glaze onto the wall in workable areas, keeping a leading ìwetî edge as you work around the room. (Better yet, get someone to ìrollî while you ìscrollî). You will want to roll the glaze out nice and even, with no visible roller marks. This is best accomplished by using a cross-hatching motion with the roller

Step 4
While the glaze is still wet and fresh, drape a damp terry towel over your index finger and use this to ìfingerpaintî in loose, random scroll shapes. If you donít feel comfortable just ìgoing for itî on the wall you can sketch out some variations to scale and work from that. Allow this to dry overnight.

Step 5
Stencil the Japanese Flower Garden motifs randomly using variations of black, white and pink. It looks nice to group them differently in sets of 3-2-4, etc. For more variation you can flip or rotate the designs around. You can also tape off the outer portion of some of the larger flowers and just stencil the middle area to create another ìdesignî.  In some of flowers we used a very dry stencil brush to just swirl in some color before stenciling the center details of the flower over it.

Japanese Flower Garden B

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