Swirls and teardrops, the sequel

Lily: The links that you posted don't seem to have a picture attached. I tried your album but there weren't any pictures there either. I'd like to see your pictures, so if you have a minute would you mind posting them again?

Just did a Wolfe course & they did the whole thing using a no 4 brush,apparently they dont use anything else.
Its purely the way they use it, its simply finding the right one for you.

I had THE hardest time learning how to get my swirls and accents to look just right-with my right hand, then I had to worry about making equally nice swirls with my left hand!! It took me several events and lots of practice (with a lot of help from my mentors/grandparents) but I have got it down pretty good now!!

I have found that using mehron liquid paints work amazingly for line work, they stay put and wash off easily-plus they give me more paint on the brush which makes my strokes more fluid as well!

possumranch wrote:I had THE hardest time learning how to get my swirls and accents to look just right-with my right hand, then I had to worry about making equally nice swirls with my left hand!! It took me several events and lots of practice (with a lot of help from my mentors/grandparents) but I have got it down pretty good now!!

I have found that using mehron liquid paints work amazingly for line work, they stay put and wash off easily-plus they give me more paint on the brush which makes my strokes more fluid as well!

I paint with your left AND right hand?? I just use my right. you're magic.

Debi's Doodles wrote:Alot of times I put dots on my tear drops and swirls....I always use the wolfe white on wolfe cause it seems to not smear like other whites I have tried. Now for accent lines...I'm kinda bad at those too so thats why I do more dots for the accents . It just takes practice to do the lines I'm sure.

I had a go at this yesterday and I loved the dots for accents! So quick and easy and the girls just loved it!

Ashley Pickin wrote:

possumranch wrote:I had THE hardest time learning how to get my swirls and accents to look just right-with my right hand, then I had to worry about making equally nice swirls with my left hand!! It took me several events and lots of practice (with a lot of help from my mentors/grandparents) but I have got it down pretty good now!!

I have found that using mehron liquid paints work amazingly for line work, they stay put and wash off easily-plus they give me more paint on the brush which makes my strokes more fluid as well!

I paint with your left AND right hand?? I just use my right. you're magic.

LOL... believe ME it was difficult, and I paint two different ways with both hands (of course hhhaaa), so it takes a lot of practice and adapting to how each hand operates....but it has been worth it so far!!


Plus, it works better than putting my arm pit in kids faces trying to paint with my right hand on the left side... LOL!!!!!

Being able to paint with both hands can be really practical, but often I find it is faster just having the kid looking to the other direction / turning their head than switching hands.