You can block off an area on a surface so it
is not affected by the Artisan operations you apply to it. Unselected
vertices act as a block.
To
restrict an area for painting
Select
the vertices you want to paint. For details, see the Basics guide.
Select
an Artisan tool.
Paint
the surface with the selected Artisan tool. Any brush strokes you
make over the selected vertices affect only the selected vertices.
Unselected vertices are masked and are unaffected by your painting, as
shown in the following example.