Not perfect, but I think they still turned out pretty cool :)
So that's why I had gotten a few acrylics, and I really wanted to experiment with the one stroke technique! I've tried it before with just normal polish, and quickly learned why NOT to use normal polish!
After doing some google searches for inspiration, and many many practice flowers, I had decided on a butterfly instead of a flower.
So first I started with a normal french tip. Then, using a small flat brush, I dipped one corner in white paint and the other corner in orange. I dabbed off some of the excess first, and then started painting my wings. I did this by doing kind of a swoosh upwards movement, slight twist and then back down. (You can find a lot of tutorials on the movements of the brush online, but I definitely recommend lots of PRACTICE!!)
It came out pretty messy, but another plus of working with acrylic paint is that you can put on another layer or fill in missing color to help clean it up. After I finished all my swooshes, I went in with black polish and a striper brush to draw in the body and outline the wings.
I purposefully didn't outline the wings exactly, sometimes cutting into the color or extending out from the color, with an occasional detail line inside.
I finished off the detailing by using a dotting tool to put in black dots on the wing tips as well as out side of the butterfly wings. I put in some dots of white as well, and done!
