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I want to make sure that I put some
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blending gel on my brush
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as I'm adding the colors.
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I'm going to start with the Turner's
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Yellow and the Poetry Green.
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You can see my brush I have one color on
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one side and one on the other. I'm just
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going to approach the paper and just do a
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random slip slap with the paint.
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I'm going to go back into my other colors
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where I had the Turner's Yellow I will
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dip into the Vintage Orange, and where I
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had the green I will dip into the Autumn
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Leaves. I'm not cleaning my brush in
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between. I'm just dipping and just
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randomly slapping. I'm also going back in
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occasionally and dipping into the blending
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gel just so that I make sure the palette
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stays moist underneath,
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until I get ready to do the
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petals with the Rose White. I want a
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little bit more green over in this corner.
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Okay, I'm finished with this brush, this
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was a 1 inch flat Plaid one stroke brush.
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Now I'm going to be using a Filbert brush,
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this is the 1/2 inch Plaid one stroke
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Filbert. I'm going to moisten it a little
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bit and then dry it on a paper towel some.
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Now, first, I'm dipping it into the
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blending gel, then I'm dipping it directly
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into my Rose White. So, it is fully loaded
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here with just the Rose White, but as you
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can see, as I go to make my petals, it
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will pull in the colors from underneath.
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I'm starting flat and pulling up to chisel
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as I come to the middle of the flower.
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Flat, pull to chisel. You can make either
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4 or 5 petal flowers. This looks a little
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open, I may add another petal. I'm going
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to overlap my flowers. Pull down. You can
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come from outside the circle of paint, it
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doesn't matter, it's better not to seem
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too boxed in. Pull, turn, and lift. Pull,
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turn, lift to chisel. Pull, turn, lift to
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chisel. We're coming into another flower
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here. I'm overlapping the last flower that
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I did. There. I think I like these better
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with 5 petals, they seem a little fuller.
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These are not particular flowers, these
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are fantasy flowers, just for decoration.
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They don't have to be identified as any
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particular flower. But you can see how the
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white stands out, but it's also picking up
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the color that's still damp on the page
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underneath. Okay, also as you turn it
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tends to leave a little bit of an edge
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which looks like a natural turn of the
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flower petal. Pull, turn, lift. Pull, turn
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lift. Pull, turn, lift. That one's looking
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a little bit too symmetrical, so I'm going
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to come off on the side here and add
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another couple petals here. Okay, this
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part I have not done yet, I wanna pull in
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some of this orange and yellow tone. Pull,
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turn, lift. Pull, turn, lift. We may not
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quite finish all of this section here but
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you can get the idea of how I'm pulling
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these flowers in. Pull, turn. You can also
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pull and turn this way, whatever is more
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comfortable to you. If you're left-handed,
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right-handed, find the direction it feels
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more comfortable to you to pull, and you
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can see the flowers are starting to come
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together here. I still have a little bit
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more here, I would like to cover up a
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little bit more of the color, and you'll
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notice when you load your brush, you're
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going to have paint on each side, as
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you're pulling in, you're really only
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using paint from one side of the brush,
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just turn it, use up the paint on the
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other side. You can see our flowers are
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getting a little full. Now for the centers
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very simple you can either use a 1/4 inch
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dauber, you could use a q-tip, you can use
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the handle of your brush. I'm not sure
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exactly right now where my daubers are, I
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know I bought some recently but I couldn't
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tell you where they are. Okay, what I'm
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going to do is look for a brush that has a
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flat end, sort of a roundish flat end, dip
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that end into my green paint, and simply
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daub on. Oh boy, Willow's helping me here.
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Okay, dip, tap. Dip, tap. You may need to
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tap a little bit more, you can go back and
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do it again. I usually dip the brush each
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time I'm going to put a center on a flower
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it just freshens it up and that way you
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don't come up with just a half a circle.
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This paints a little thick, it's kind of
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old. You can try different colors, try an
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orange one if you think that would look
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better. It all depends-- that was a little
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bit thick there-- on how you want the
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centers to look. I think after all I like
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the green better. Dip, tap. That one's a C
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it's leaving a little bit of a hole in the
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middle, so dip, tap again. Dip, tap again.
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And those are my flowers. Okay, that's it
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for this lesson, we'll try again for
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another part of the border, I'm going to
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turn this off and film a little bit of a
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cluster that I did on the wall, and also
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let you see a painting that I did with
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similar style flowers in more pastel
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shades.