Using Wipe Out Tools to Shape Flowers in Porcelain Paintings

Video Transcript

"And now we're going to form our flower. We're going to add a little more depth to it by mixing in some more colors. So I'm going to start with my purple. I'm going to go to a little bit of maroon, and I'm going to draw those colors up into the center of the flower. I might even pick up a little bit of pink. Okay. Now I'm going to wipe out my flower shape. I think I'll go like this. I'm doing the center part of the flower and then oops. This is a ruffle pansy. So we use our wipe out tool to draw those ruffles in. And if you notice, the bottom comes on top of this one. So it'll come up high. Okay. Now I'm going to take a smaller brush and I'm going to come here, start where the wipe out is and brush it out. Any place that you want a ruffle, like we have here, you come in and cut it out a little bit. Some more interesting shapes. And to create that ruffle, come in at the high point, you draw it down. And then you feather it. Doing the feather stroke to try to make that a little bit softer, and then I come in here. Takes a lot of practice to be smooth with it, but that's part of the fun of learning. And no picture ever comes out the same, that's also kind of fun. I don't mind it if I get a little of that background color in the flower, I think it just adds a little more. This one's behind so I want to leave it a little bit darker. Okay, as you can see, we've got the flower blocked in. We've got our little bib and we've got the two petals here, the front petal and the back petal. Now we're ready to put the finer details on the flower. "