This month Natalie Webb is showing us how to print flowers.
Materials:
• 3 toilet rolls
• 4 different colour paints…one of which is green
• Scissors
• Black paper or card
• Paint brush
• Cotton wool
• Saucer or plate
Snip approx half an inch up around the base of the first toilet roll. Then splay out where you have cut.
Repeat this process with the second toilet roll, making longer snips about an inch up.
Repeat with third toilet roll, an inch-and-a-half-up.
Squeeze out the first colour paint (for your outer petals) onto a saucer.
Use the toilet roll with the largest cuts first, dipping it into your paint so that the bottom of the splayed out (petals) are completely covered. Then – thinking about where you want your flowers – press down on to your black paper to make a petal print.
Repeat this step two more times on different parts of the paper.
Next, with your second toilet roll (the middle-sized one) choose a different colour paint, dipping it in and imprinting it into the middle of the flowers.
Repeat this step with the third colour paint.
With your cotton wool, dip into the same colour paint that you used for the outer petals and dab into the centre of your flowers.
Use your green paint to paint the stems and leaves.
There you have it, a beautiful bunch of flowers! Make as many of these as you like, experimenting with different colours.
