My Digital Sketchbook

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)

Choice of Paper Texture Really Matters When Wetting the WC Layer

Tweet  Today's Tip These two papers appear somewhat similar to the naked eye (as compared to other papers you could compare). Just like the weight and roughness of the texture with traditional watercolour paper affects the appearance of the paint on the paper, so it does with digital watercolours. The…(continue reading)

A Looser Skyscape Using John Derry's Watercolour Brushes

  Still working on ways to paint clouds. Had a really nice wet into wet broody one almost done and Corel crashed me. I was highly annoyed!    So I tried something else with John Derry's watercolour brushes. Result above.!   …(continue reading)