Painting Background Colors onto a Porcelain Painting

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"Now I'm going to show you how to incorporate some of the background colors in. And I like to use kind of a light turquoise blue. It's a very pretty color with the purple. You can kind of work that in with your leaf green. And again, if you can work and place it in at least three places, that keeps your eye traveling around the painting. And again, you always have to work it towards yourself. Doesn't take a lot, just a little bit of color. And if you'd like, you can add a little bit of a yellow, just a slight amount. Like the sun shining, just a little. These colors look very pretty when they're all fired in. Then crosshatch it out. Okay, now we've got some of the background in. When we come back, I'll put the highlights in the flower. "