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Now that the egg is completely dry from both sides, we can proceed to paint it
with a white acrylic paint, but if you prefer you can use any other color.
In this case, I'm going to paint a sort of stained glass or mosaic.
Therefore, I will need a light color so that the other colors are more noticeable.
So we continue to paint several coats of white color until we cover the whole egg.
Once we have finished with the white undercoat and if you notice that the paint is not uniform,
don't worry! Because we are going to paint over it.
For this egg, I'm planning to do a mosaic of cherries.
The first thing I'm doing is to paint some cherries by making a few brushstrokes to trace like an apple.
You can do this with a liner or with any other brush. To fill it in you can also use a liner or any other brush,
the one you feel more comfortable.
I'm doing it with the liner because I don't want it to look even.
Since we are trying to make a stained glass, I don't want the colors to be even.
I want them to look like here. One brushstroke thicker and the other one thinner what the amount of paint concerns.
Secondly, I will draw the cherry's stalk.
Again the idea is that it looks a bit mottled.
After we have painted cherries all over the egg, we draw one more over the widest part of the egg, to cover the egg hole.
Once the egg hole is covered, we see that we have achieved to make it invisible with the painting.
Otherwise the hole will be noticeable. I generally paint over the imperfections to hide them.
Now, I paint the green stalk of this last cherry.
The egg now is fully covered with cherries.
The next step is to apply floating medium with a brown color to make shadows on the cherries.
It is like making a "country work" where we want to have some shadows.
We will see that our cherry is having different darker shadows in certain places.
Specially in the area of the stalk and the bottom of the cherry.
Perfection is not desired. Is doesn't have to be as perfect as in "country".
Making it in an untidy way we obtain the best results.
Gut, I have now done all the shadows. It doesn't matter if I've made a bad brushstroke, because,
like I already said, the more irregular it looks or worse done it is, we will obtain
a more natural effect and more similar to a stained glass.
To continue, let us take this cherry to begin with and let's make a few lines,
to separate the crystals of the stained glass.
Don't forget that these shapes should be irregular.
Normally they are geometrical and are created as I carry them out.
I will do the same with the stalk and again in this case
I will try to reproduce what is supposed to be the cuts of the stained glass.
Why do I mention all the time that they are like stained glass?
Because some of the cuts colors are more or less transparent and others.
Therefore, they look more like stained glass than a mosaic.
If we use colors without shadows, it would rather look like a mosaic by painting each piece of mosaic in a different color.
In my opinion, this way of painting is more similar to a stained glass.
We can now fill the empty spaces with the same brown color that we use to make the cuts.
Like this, we will see how the stained glass will stands up.
Once we have finished with the cuts in all the cherries, we paint the rest of the egg
with the same brown color.
I reinforce that if the color doesn't look even, you can paint it again to make it look darker.
After we have finished with the brown color, we need to varnish the egg three times
approximately allowing to dry the varnish after each application to finally finish it.
Thank you very much and I looking forward to see you again.