Pretty Cherry Blossom Mug Painting
Ingredients
- 2 or more white ceramic mugs with a smooth surface
- DecoArt Americana Multi Surface Satin in Black Tie, Soft Jade, Raspberry, Pink Cadillac, Cotton Ball
- Paint brushes fine tipped and angled
- Cotton swabs
- Newspaper or other disposable material
Instructions
- Paint the tea cup handle in Soft Jade.
- Using a fine tip angled brush and starting at the bottom of the handle, apply a thin upward diagonal line across one side of the cup in Black Tie.
- Next, apply shorter diagonal lines off the main line.
- Taper the lines towards the ends, the area furthest from the main line.
- Continue along the entire length of the main line until your lines resemble tree branches.
- Repeat these steps on the other side of the mug working from the handle outward.
- Dip the back end of a fine tip paint brush in Cadillac Pink and gently dab the paintbrush at the end of the main line creating a small dot.
- Continue to dip and dab the paintbrush end creating 4 more dots in a circular shape.
- Repeat at the end of all lines or just before the tips.
- Mix equal parts Cotton Ball white with Cadillac Pink and apply the mixture to some of the flower petal tips.
- Dip the back end of a fine tip paint brush in Raspberry and gently dab the centers of each flower.
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