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Cartoon Flowers

For this project, you'll need wooden flower shapes, dowels, wooden balls with a flat bottom, gesso, paint in assorted colors, and hot glue.

Begin by painting each of the wooden shapes, balls, and dowels with a coat of gesso. This'll make the paint go on so much nicer.
Paint the flowers and beads with different colors. I used pink, blue and yellow.

Using a stencil dauber, apply paint in a dotted pattern over each flower. Remember to extend pattern all the way to the edge.

Next paint the dowels with a green. To paint all the dowels at once, line them up as shown, paint, wait a bit, roll the whole shebang just a quarter turn and paint again. Continue until the dowels are painted all the way around.
With a darker green paint color, apply patterns to the dowels such as stripes and polka dots.