By Guest Blogger Maria Mercedes

Supplies:

•  8×10 canvas
• Decorative paper or book pages
• Gel medium or Mod Podge
• Craft Paints: terra cotta, antique white, skintone, yellow, white, light blue and burnt umber.
• Permantent fine black pen
• Brushes
• Tranfer paper or parchment paper
• Red Pastel Oil

Directions:

Glue decorative paper to canvas using gel medium or mod podge.
Water down the white paint to cover most of the decorative paper but leaving the edges unpainted. Let dry and then apply another coat of watered down light blue paint on top of the white.
Transfer a pattern of your choice to canvas.

Base coat bear using terra cotta paint and use antique white for the mouth area and small bottom. Paint beehive skin tone, bees yellow and wings white. Let dry.

Shade darker areas by applying watered down burnt umber paint to some areas.

Use the permanent black pen to outline details and finish off the painting.

Using a red pastel oil and an old brush add the red color cheeks to the bear