How to Make Camouflage Flowers
- 1). Choose a color scheme for your camouflage pattern. Traditional patterns include shades of green, brown and black or shades of brown for a desert pattern. You may also choose shades of pink or lavender, blue, red or even orange and yellow.
- 2). Set your paints out in the order you plan to use them, starting with the darkest color. Use food coloring for gum paste flowers, water color for paper and acrylic for silk or real flowers.
- 3). Put on gloves and eye protection. The gloves prevent stained fingers and the eye protection prevents errant wind from getting paint into your eyes.
- 4). Hold a flower by its stem between your thumb and forefinger. Color several petals of your flower with your darkest color. Let the shape of the blossom section the colors instead of trying to section each petal with color. This kind of coloring preserves the lines of the flower.
- 5). Create a camouflage pattern by coloring random petals with your first color, then more random petals with your second color, etc. Aim the airbrush so the edges of the colored sections blend, but try not to spray over already colored areas. Also try not to let any of your colors "clump" in one part of the flower. Spread the different sections out over the flower to create a truly random pattern.
- 6). Clean the airbrush between colors. Unsnap one kind of paint from the brush and spray onto scrap paper until the excess paint is out of the brush. Snap in a new color and continue.
- 7). Place your flowers upright in floral foam or a cardboard pegboard for gum paste flowers. Let them dry for at least an hour before use.