To lift off the shape, best way is to take some water. And what you do is gently put the water on in the shape that you want. I want to make this like the light is spilling over on an angle so you're actually paint the water on very carefully and gently. Don't rub it hard. Just let it sit there. And while that one's sitting, it's dissolving the paint.

So I'm also going to bring in right along here. I'm just gently putting some water on here. You can actually submerge a watercolor if it's done properly. into a bathtub and just let it sit there. And it'll, it'll get all wet and it won't disturb the paint. But my reasoning here is because there's light coming this way it's going to reflect in my water also.

So gently putting the water on my water and I'm gonna let it let it sit. Now there's two things you can do. You can get pieces of gauze or you can get blotting paper. Or you can just take your rag and just gently put it on. Roll a piece of tape. thing is not to move the rag just to let it absorb.

Some Kleenex will work. I kind of like the recycled materials because I never run out of them. I've used my shirt, a sock. There we are. And then I gently pull it up and I've lifted the shape. Now, I take my hairdryer, dry it up.

Don't sit around waiting for the paint to dry. Dry it up quickly. There is a famous painting with Rembrandt, he used his thumb to smudge something. You can see here that the actual cloth is making a pattern when I lifted it. Now I'm going to lift two more areas. Right here.

On this angle, all I'm doing is putting water on it. And wherever the water goes, that's what lifts off. So to get the right lift, make the shape with the water. Do not rub it with your brush, you'll destroy the top of the paper. It takes a little bit of time. These are dry So I'm going to now extend it a little more.

Get the shape I want. Because the paint is bone dry, you'll get what you want. You can also do this when the paint is wet. It's a different kind of a lift. We'll learn that in the next lesson. This is a drive lift.

Now I take my Kleenex this time and see, you can actually see the shape. This one, I'm going to make sure I'm clean here or straight across. I just want to roll just because I want to really get the light coming through here. See, Okay, there we go. Clean x works well. See I'm getting a nice light form down through here.

Now I can also pick up This shape here, I'll show you how the next method is called the wet drag. You'll see the reflections usually are the same shape as whatever's up here. So I will pull that over eventually, but this angle is going to reflect this way. So here's another way that we can do it, is you gently push the brush down and come across like that. Once, clean off the brush, dried a little bit. Give a little wiggle.

And, Paul, what's the disadvantage of this? I'll show you unless you're careful, we're destroying this lovely green here with this purple. So what you need to do also is lift off at the same time, whatever pigment that you have dragged across So, either method works really well as long as you don't really drag too hard on the paper. So now I'm getting a nice little shape here. And I'm going to pull this across here with another book, that's okay. can pull it across on an angle.

Just like this is our angle. reflections are always pretty much the same as what's up here. And here we go. Look that off on an angle. So one nice edge on my clean x. Get my roller and every time I lift, I'm starting, I'm producing a very nice luminous effect on my painting.

Okay. hairdryer time. This paper is bone dried out. Definitely I used to hairdryer. Now it's time to do a very, very, very important technique. It's called cutting out some white.

I have my exacto knife utility knife, and you can never get the white paper back. as white as the paper can be with lifting, you'll always be just a shade down. We'll know what it looks like I'm going both directions but I'm going one direction and a slight lift. And I'm going to get right down in there. Too much of this renders your pitcher mechanical but I get a good white chair. I can pull a few more on an angle in here right through this reflection Homer Turner lots of great artists have used this little technique.

There's 3123 a long one, a medium one. It's called baby bear. Mama Bear, Papa Bear. We got a big Papa Bear here and pull out a little bit of white in there, kind of yellow. And then a baby bear here just a little bit. And there we go.

The one thing I'm going to do next on this, as far as lifting goes is to soften this edge right here. It's a little too strong. Knowing when to stop is important. I'm just going to rub it till I see it soften. Now the brushes picked up some of that blue And then moving over a little bit and it's a different way of lifting. I take the brush off like that.

I don't want this hard edge in my water. I want to soften the entire edge. Now it's getting a little purple here. Gently off the brush, tap it. And the last one. Now this is a, this is sort of an echo of this color or tone you see.

So I'm going to look at it and I'm going to pull it in. This is where I like these these half inch flat brushes. Echo is better than being too aggressive. Tap it. Nicely done. Now we've got one there, I'm thinking 123 I've got one and this is an oblique.

First one doesn't render much for me. Second one. Paint starting to dissolve, I'm getting a better result. And the third one, see where I'm coming in there. I'm starting to see my shape. There it is.

There it is. There it is starting to come. clean the brush, always clean the brush that the paint is starting to lift. And now I'll use a Kleenex and I'll probably get it printed. good results here from lifting, nice, good. And I'm going to add one down this way.

Just wiggling the brush wiggling in one place. We're going down, we're going down right to the bottom. There's a nice vertical they're had very good water is reflective. So we're looking through here creating a few little, very subtle rays of light. Going straight down. Popping over the brush.

I'm going to pull it in a little more. I'm gonna Oh, we're gonna pull it up almost to that little white line there. There we go. That's better. Okay, I'm gonna let that sit. Lifting