tease out a few leaf shapes

[shootingstar]

Spatter water into the distant woodland, just above the edge of the lake. Spatter colour into the water and, using the brush conventionally, tease out a few leaf shapes.
("Watercolour Painting" by Joe Francis Dowden)

Hi, there,
Please, what does tease out mean in this context? The text is about watercolor painting (the author is BE) and it describes how to paint a woodland with a lake in the fall.
Thank you.

 

[probus]

My guess is that it's a rypo for tease.

 

[shootingstar]

Thank you. But then, what do you take tease to mean in this context?

 

[probus]

It's not just tease, but tease out, a phrasal verb. It must be used figuratively here, perhaps meaning that adding the leaf shapes is a fiddly little job.

 

[shootingstar]

(annotation to #2: rypo -> typo; and to #4: rhat->that, fiddley->fiddly?)
Thank you very much for helping me

 

[Skrej]

See definition #1, as well as definition #1 here.

 

[shootingstar]

Thank you very much . Yes, I think the Merriam-Webster's one could work here: 1: to obtain by or as if by disentangling or freeing with a pointed instrument
You are "freeing" the leaf shapes with the pointed brush = instrument.
The Macmiillan version - to succeed in discovering something difficult, complicated, or secret - isn't much to the point in my opinion. But maybe I'm wrong.