REQUIREMENTS:
PAINTS - (Jo Sonja)

• Teal Green
• Black
• Titanium White
• Brown Earth
• Green Oxide
• Cadmium Yellow
• Plum Pink
• Yellow Oxide
• Moss Green or Yellow Light
• Paynes Grey

• Kleister
• Retarder

• No2 or 3 Round
• 1/8 & 1/4 Deerfoot
• 3/8 Deerfoot
• 1/4 Flat
• Fine Liner

• Palette
• Hair Dryer
• Lid for retarder
• Paper
• Towel
• Glad Wrap
• Black & White Transfer paper

BOARD - Base paint Teal Green 2-3 coats, sanding in between.
FRAME - Base Yellow Oxide 2-3 coats sanding in between

Trace on leopard (outline only). Base paint Yellow Oxide - 2 coats. Trace on details on leopard. Don't trace on spots.

Background: Mix colours separately with Kleister 1:1. Mix Green Oxide, Moss Green and Yellow Light, slip slop patches of the three colours - starting with the darkest first, place glad wrap over paint and scrunch the colours together, lift the glad wrap off paint.

Branches: With the liner or round brush load black and side load white, paint branch pushing the brush down and lifting unevenly as you go. Wobbling the brush so you get thick and thin uneven branches.

Nose: Mix Plum Pink with a touch of (ATO) Yellow Oxide and Black and block in pink area of nose. Outline nose in Black with a mottley look. Float Black across the top of the Pink.

Snout: Using the Deerfoot brush load the brush with Yellow Oxide and a little Brown, Stipplle in shading, then pick up White and stipple for highlights.

Face: Using the Deerfoot brush and following the picture, stipple and brush comb the markings ie; Yellow Oxide with a touch of Brown for shading, and Yellow Oxide and White for light areas, Black and Paynes Grey for the spots.

Eyes: Paint eyeball, pupil black. Mix Yellow Oxide and White to a pale Yellow, paint the Iris. Float Black with a Flat brush across the top of eye, under eyelid, highlight pupil with white dot.

Whiskers: With tip of round brush or stipple paint some blotchy spots in rows across top of mouth for whiskers to come from, using liner brush paint whiskers some black & some white, some long, some short.

Grass: Using liner and thinned down paint pull grass in behind sides of leopard and across front using Brown Earth, Green Oxide and Yellow Light. Don't wash brush just pick up differant colours as you go.

Leaves: Paint some thin Brown Earth branches in front at each corner of leopard and some blotchy leaves. Some in Teal Green and White, some Moss or Green oxide and Yellow Light.

Frame: Using Deerfoot, comb fur using Yellow Oxide, Brown Earth, White, Black and Paynes Grey, with ATO White. The same as you did the leopard, only larger spots.