My new techniques for digital watercolour using Liquid Ink Brushes

• (1)Liquid Ink layer 1 - 3 splatters with same Splatter Brush with similar dabbing action. (from Extra's brushes with Painter 11)
• (2)Duplicated this layer, then used the Small Camel Resist in a similar stroke on all three dabs, and a similar Smooth Flat stroke on all 3.
• (3)Duplicated the layer, then added a different color to each dab with Sparse Camel the used Soften Colour to blend it in.

• Digital watercolour brushes: Simple Water, Simple Blender, Gentle Wet Eraser, Fine Tip Water

• Watercolour Airbrushes: made by choosing wet in General Brush commands. This takes some practice and a lots of adjusting to get a fine spray that isn't too dark. You can also spray only inside a selection. (That's how I did most of the leaves in Charlton Lake Picnic Island. It's kind of like Masking Fluid in reverse.) I saw a watercolour demonstration video yesterday of an artist using these neat little spray bottles that sprayed drops. He even had them filled with different colours. So, now I don't feel guilty about using watercolour and dry airbrushes. He made good use of a tissue as well, which is analgous to Gentle Wet Eraser, or using a Glow brush to remove some of the saturation of colour. Even dropping the layers to canvas and using different blenders is comparable to other traditional watercolour techniques such as Fading Out, Softening Edges with a wet brush.

• Distortion Brushes: I used the Shower Door 1 from the Effects Brushes (one of the Extra's) to make some of the edges more jagged. Probably used the Diffuser and a Wet Confusion Brush a bit too, to soften edges and blend wet into wet colours. 

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