after I've added all of the petals to my peeny I'm ready to paint it I'm going to paint it with petal dust petal dust has the consistency of ground of chalk I just dip a nice flat paintbrush into my petal dust and brush off the extra I can always add more paint but I can't always take it off I'm just going to take and dust in this case I'll dust all over my peony my dry painting been dry for at least 24 hours before I paint it I'm just going to brush as much dust as I'd like to in order to create the color that I'm looking for in this case a nice deep magenta color peonies come in all sorts of different colors I'd say white or light and dark pink tends to be the most popular colors for penis I'm just going to brush all over create a nice deep pink peony color now in order to finish off you'll notice that we still have a few pieces that are exposed and may not look quite the best what I do with that is to cover it with the green kale egg so I've cut out a green kale X with a calyx cutter they have special calyx cutters that can be used in order to create this shape we've rolled green gum paste on a pasta machine and then cut out using this shape the other thing that I've done to it is to just pinch around the edges to make the edges nice and flat I'll pierce my wire straight through and turn it over so I can see where it is and with a teeny tiny little bit of glue I'll just attach each of the calyx pieces I'll just brush on on each one of those little pieces brush a little bit of glue just to make sure that it sticks where I want to and essentially what I'm doing is covering up those little bits that might not look as sharp as the rest it's amazing what a calyx can do in order to create a completely finished off flower Oh