—we plate, in order to make it easy for me to work on. I will put my watermelon on it. Did you see that there is a shape around here? First of all we’re going to make a circular line next to each other. We’ll make another one. You’ll see that I’ll make it next to each other along the bottom line. You can make it in any size that you want. It doesn’t matter as long as it sits next to each other as tight as you can.
Now that we’ve come to a very tight space, we’ll make sure that you make this last one fit into this space. Then we continue on. Now you’ll see that you’ll always make it connected. So on the last one make sure that you’ve planed to make the circular path sit next to the previous cut that you have.
Now that you have all of them next to each other, so we’ll start to reshape the dome by skinning off the edge of it. As I had told you on the previous lesson, every time that you’re making a dome you’ll spend more time than you’re making a flowers because each petal will be lined up on the dome shape.
This is the one that I have already reshaped the dome. You will see that every dome had been touchup nicely and just like each of them are, stick into this basket like foundations.
So I’m going start to do the flower’s rosebud now. I always start at the bottom since the bottom is the very hard part to reach. So by this way I’d be able to roll the watermelon to the position that I’m comfortable with. Without worrying that I would ruin the flower on the top. So now I’m going to do it at the bottom. We can do start anywhere at the bottom.
First of all, we will hold the knife perpendicular. The tip perpendicular towards the bottom of the dome, place it and make a swing motion in and out. Do not just make a straight line in. So along the curve, you will push your knife along the curve and then place the blade of your knife down at the bottom, slanting your knife, so the tip is outward, skin off some flesh of watermelon underneath of the cut that you just made. So you’ll get the petal stand out. Again, we will try to skin off the next space of the petal that we just made. So you will see that the space is at a lower level than the petal above.By this way, if you do it this way, you will be able to make the petal overlap each other.
When we make a rosebud technique, I always make it in one way. If you started clockwise then keep continuing it to the middle. If you want to do it counterclockwise then you will do it with that. Do not change the direction on each time that your petal goes on. Always keep the same direction.
Now that you see that we reached the center part of the rose bud. Right now this is what we call rosebud. We will reshape this dome to make it pointed at the top. And I will start where the last petal, is by underneath of the petal that I just made. I’ll place the knife in perpendicular then make a swing motion up on the dome and stop where that I’d go halfway. So I will skin off underneath. You will see that this petal will not go to the bottom as the other petal did. Now we will continue on from where I cut and make a turn around the corner. Stop, then skin off. This one you can also, we can call it as a spiral cut. And we place at the spot that we just left of. Again, make it to the top of the dome shape. Then we will skin off as you can see that. Now we will have the rosebud in the middle of the flower. We would continue doing this in the second flowers by placing the knife again.
There are some questions that have already been asked. That is, how big is the bud in the middle should I left off? It’s up to you. It’s not this kind of rosebud. It is up to you how you see it. You had a little space then you make a little rosebud in the middle. You have a bigger one then we will spiral more. As I will show you that this rosebud is bigger than the previous one that I had just made, but I can always make the rosebud out of it.
So once you have the nice shape. Then have the tip of the rosebud right there. So we will start from where we left of the last petal. A little bit underneath of the previous petal. Place the knife in then make a swing motion cut up on the dome, cut almost the tip of the dome. Then we will skin off underneath the cut that you just made.
Turn the watermelon around a little bit, place the knife in where you left of and make a nice swing motion on the tip of the dome, stop. Then you make a nice skin off of it. By this way you already see that the rosebud had been started.
As everyone had been asking me, that what size of the rosebud in the middle or in the center of the flower should we leave to make a rosebud? The size doesn’t matter. You can make a bigger rosebud like this one or a smaller one. It’s up to you what size you like to leave it of. Sometimes people like to have a bigger rosebud in the middle. Sometimes people likes to make this a smaller one because they want more petals around the rosebud, but use the same technique to make the rosebud.
As you can see if I make each dome to be a rose, then you will see like a rose was standing next to each other. Then we’ll come up to the last rosebud that we had left.
So I always make sure that the dome shape have been retouched, a nice dome shape, is a way to make it different of the rosebud flowers. Again you can see that. I’ll make the petal one at a time, then skin off. Make a nice touch on the space next to the petal that I will place it. Then place petal, the next petal right underneath of the previous one that I’ve just made. Make a nice row cut along the corner of the dome down to the body. Then skin off.
This time I’m going to show you how big are the rosebuds will be. And I can make it look as nice as the smaller one. With the same technique, you go up on the dome, stop before the tip of the dome, skin off underneath, continuing where you left of along the dome upward toward the tip. Then skin off underneath of the cut that we’ve just made.
So you can see the rosebud is very big and bigger than the other one, but it still looks nice. So once you’re done with the whole thing. Then you may do some touchup by skin off some watermelon from the bottom. So we’ll make it look like flowers stick from inside not connected to the foundation that we made.
Now that we’re done with every flowers and a touchup then we’re finished with the lesson number two, rosebud technique.
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