You will need to reduce the size of the brush in the Options Bar. Change the Foreground Color box to a yellow color for the flame.For the example, I used a light purple #caafde. Decide on the color for your candle and set the color in the Foreground Color box.63 Watercolor Loaded Wet Flat Tip in the Brush Preset Picker in the Options Bar. Click on the Brush tool and set the brush tip to No.We will turn off the visibility of this layer after we are finished. We have added the layer to help us see better as we paint. With the Paint Bucket tool, fill the Background layer with color. Set the Foreground Color box to white.Add another layer under the Watercolor layer and name it “Background”.Add a new layer under this transparent layer in the Layers panel.
You will notice that the line art is on a transparent layer. We have already drawn the candle logo’s line art in Livebrush and we will now use the Brush tool in Photoshop CS4 to add a “ watercolor wash” to the logo. In this tutorial, we will learn how to color a line art logo.