Butterfly Eastern Blue carving painting instruction


	First step is to seal with TK Sealer, its easier to blend the paint on the TK Sealed surface.
	Base coat of the lightest blue value that you can see, working your painting from Light To dark values.
	Add a little black to your mix and shade in the center of the wings Water blend the white areas, near the feelers and bottom of the wings. I just dampen the area next to where I want to put the white, and let it bleed into the blue area. Just dampen, don't wet it , or the paint will run. This also depends on the consistency of the paint. Try it on something other than your carving, to see if the mixture is right. too thick and it wont work and too thin it runs.
	Paint in the veins, looking for the variation in colour, Also darken the center of the body
	Paint the white and black on the edge of the wings then go back over the area between the veins and use a small lining brush to put in fine little dots of paint to make the arch between the veins. Do this for the black and the white, Carry the black dots down the veins. Keep a reference picture handy to look at.
	First I used texturing compound to build up the eyes Paint in the individual markings, splits white and grey dots etc. Put dots on the feelers, the picture dosent show them , but I did paint them in. The photo isn't showing the markings I put in clearly, but I took a little white, darkened it with black, and watered a strip between each vein, then darkened it some more and darkened between the veins close to the body. I noticed a violet area on the lower part of the wings, so I watered in a very light wash of Alzarian Red and small amt of diox purple.
	This is the reference Photo that I used . These are very popular with the girls to put on their curtains.
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