My Digital Sketchbook

Get a Wet Into Wet Look With My New Digital Watercolours

Tweet  Wet Into Wet With Digital Watercolours? Is this possible? I discovered a way to get my digital watercolour variants to blend together with a really wet look. I can even add another colour that will blend a little with the colour already there and diffuse in. It looks a bit like…(continue reading)

More Tips on Painting Snow - Adding Shadows and Dimension

Tweet   How to Reduce the Amount of Paint on the Paper   The above link is to a previous post on painting snow in watercolour. Skip Allen left a comment on it it today and reminded me of a great brush in his Real Watercolours 2 Brush set (these came out before Painter and are not…(continue reading)

Why I Used a Value Study to Paint Snow

Tweet    Snow is a digital watercolour painting challenge that I have tackled every year for the last 4-5 years. Have tried to improve every year, but I sort of forget what I've learned from one year to the next. Have to paint some in July. Somebody remind me!   Snow has so many…(continue reading)

Trees with Digital Watercolour Brushes

Tweet   This is from a work in progress. Working on ways to paint distant birch trees that suggest different colours and shadows in the leaves. Using a Custom brush that uses the Captured dab from the Real Watercolours turned into a digital watercolour brush. It has been…(continue reading)

Painting Evergreen Trees in Digital Watercolour

Tweet  I have been trying to find the 'best' way to paint evergreen trees in digital watercolours for a long time, and have come to the conclusion that there is no one best way. It depends on the painting and a bunch of other things like: which evergreen, how far away is it, the mood…(continue reading)