To use the template, all you need is a light source. Here we have a little light pad that's connected to an outlet. And I can turn it on and it illuminates the bottom of the pad, what I do is I put my template on that light source, and then I'll put my paper on top of it and trace my image. Now if you don't have a pad, that's okay, you can use any light source and by that I mean even a window. So you can just put it up on your window and with the daylight shining in, you put your template down and then your paper down on top, and then you can trace over it. So here, what I do is I just find this is my five by seven paper, I find my image that I'm going to use and then I figure out where I want to put it on my template, so that I have it.

So with this one, the arc is up top here. I can move it around if I only want to use partial, the partial image, and I do that accordingly. And I'll trace them. And so for here I've already done two and I have this image here and I just added a stem, and we'll paint this one in class. And then I took this one over here. And I just traced that, to get a variation on that you can flip over the template and it will still come through on your image here and your paper, little fainter, and you can just trace around it.

So what I've done, and this is an eight by 10 piece of watercolor paper. So what I've done is I've taken my image here, and I flipped over my template, and I traced my image as I wanted it. So this was gonna be the main focus of my painting. And then I wanted to add another flower. So I'll flip my template over to see which flower I want to use. And I'll just add it right in.

So I think I'll have this one, and I'll add it here. And then I'll just speed this up so you can see the process that I use. I do take my time while I'm tracing because I'm using a permanent marker, not a pencil and an eraser. In here I have my second image. So there I have the paper that I'm going to paint on. If you want, you can add additional images as well and just continue to add them in to have your painting set up the way you'd like it before you start, you can also modify the template on your own.

And just by that you just change the shape of the pedals. If you want the more pointy or more rounded, you can go in there and do that. If you were going to do that route I would suggest going in with a pencil. When lightly trace your image, modify it the way you want with that pencil and then go over it with your waterproof permanent marker and erase the pencil marks before you start your painting. In the next chapter, we'll start painting our first Daisy