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Experiment with Building Colours in Layers Using Digital Watercolour VariantsThis little experiment will help you see how to build colour using the digital watercolour variants. It includes the settings for a nice wash/glazing brush.
1. Create a Box Selection on four separate layers. 2. Record a stroke 3. Playback Stroke 4. Fill Layer 1 circle with Colour 1 and Layer 2 with a darker gold 5. Fill Layer 3 circle with Colour 2 6. Fill Layer 4 Circle with Colour 3 7. Experiment with turning different layers on and off 8. Experiment with Changing opacity of different layers
 Experimenting with Building Colour on Layers
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Saturday, March 26th
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Peter Kastmiler said:
Joan Hamilton I want to thank you. Since I discovered your site a little more than a week or two ago, I've been on an intense study of all things related to DWC and Corel Painter. You even inspired me to open the brush settings pallettes and adjust and play around with the settings. I'm currently reading everything you have written and going through your tutorials. I love your work, it is some of the best digital watercolors I have found.
A little background, I am nearing retirement and was recently unemployed, so I dusted off my copy of Corel Painter X and I brought out my copy of Artrage Pro (because it has also has good watercolor capabilities). I have been a Photoshop user for many years and last year I bought a wacom tablet, which I fell in love with. I enjoyed drawing and painting when I was a young, and have taken it up again digitally. We've been in a real rainy period here in Northern California and I have succumbed to hibernating with my digital watercolor studies and investigations and web searches.
I would like to try some of your brushes if you are still sharing those. I have discovered some free brushes on line which I find to be very good, in particular: "Den's oil brushes" (although I'm not an oil fan I like many of these brushes better than the oil brushes in Painter). Another great find was "Figue Pix Brushes", he kindly shared his brushes on some blog and I found some of his pencil and pen brushes to be better than what is packaged in Corel. Also some of his custom Digital Watercolor Brushes are extraordinally good. I cannot purchase any brushes until I find work, but John Derry's Brushes look to be very good based on what I have read.
I have also made a color set for painter of the "holbein water colors-108". If you are interested in any of the above or the 108 water colors for Painter, I would be happy to share them with you, as a small way of saying thanks.
Thanks for the inspiring art and website!
peter kastmiler
in northern california