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Welcome to my first tutorial! I will attempt to help you paint a lovely Hibiscus. For this design I will be using acrylic craft paint in red, white, dark green and light green. I am using a liner brush size 10/0. To get a closer look or if you would like to see my finger prints...click on the image, then use your browsers Back button to return to this page. Enjoy! (1) This is how I load my brush for petals and leaves (2) Here the brush is loaded to do accent work like the center of the flower and the veins in the leaves. (3) First I start with one little petal. It looks better if the petals are not perfectly shaped. (4) Then do the same thing all the way around...making sure you have enough room for 5 petals. (5) Load up the brush with a dark green and lay down a leaf. I set the brush down and sort of push the green paint forward so it looks like it is coming out from under the flower and then pull it out to a point. Again if it is not too perfectly shaped it looks better. (6) And add a couple more... (7) Get a very tiny amount of white paint on your brush to do accent work..just paint little lines on each petal and then load your brush again and paint a stamen for the flower. Don't forget the dots at the end. (8) With a tiny amount of red paint on your brush...paint a red line down the middle of the flower stamen. (9) Now with some pale green load a tiny amount of paint on the brush and add veins to the leaves. Wait a sec for it to dry...top coat and your done! (10) You can use any color combo, here are a couple color combos. An example of what you can do with hibiscus flowers.

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