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Part Two Winter Birches Digital Watercolour Demonstration in Progress

 
 
 
Part Two:
  • the first thing I did was resize my document to 15.25 x 11.5 in.  100 ppi to make it fit a standard sized mat.
  •  then I made a Quick Clone of it using the Quick Clone function in the File menu
  • Note the Clone Source Panel and controls are open. It can be accessed from the Windows menu as well.
  • I can turn it on and off and increase and decrease it's opacity depending on how much of it I want to see. Remember it's only a value guide.
  •  Using My Custom Grainy Soft Wash in a very pale greyish lavender I painted the sky area
  • With the same brush and a paler blue I painted all the snow area
 
 
 
  •  I did this very pale blue wash on all the snow to tone down the whites and add sparkle
  • I also copied and pasted my original sketch back in as a layer from the Value Study
 
 
 
  • Fine Tip Digital Watercolour to “suggest some trees.”
 
 
 
 
  •  Soften some of the  edges on the dark DWC trees with DWC Note the softening was done with very little Diffusion On only on one side of the branches.
  • They stand out a lot right now, but I will probably darken the tree area more.
  • On a new Gel Layer with PUC clicked paint a pale blue wash (I used Derry's Gel wash squeezed)
  •  On same layer with PT on and PUC off paint some tree shapes in blue with touches of pink with a Captured Fractal dab (from Real Watercolours) with the Method changed to a digital watercolour brush
  • This is what it looks like with the WC layer turned off

 
  • The digital watercolours look too opaque and bright on their own, but very different on top of the watercolour layers
 
 
  • Opacity reduced on some layers to balance things out
  • All the layers were dropped and dried.
  • Canvas lifted to WC layer
  • Wet Entire Canvas with brush settings for Wet WC Layer Light at the illustrated Water Settings
 
 This next illustration is a version that I was playing with some ways to make snowflakes. More on that later in the process...
 
 

Posted in Demonstration of Painting Digital Watercolours Technique. Updated November 20th, 2011. 6 comments so far. Share on StumbleUpon, Delicious or Digg.

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Comments

Skip Allen said:

Beautiful, I love it. Very nice Tutorial, too.

Skip

Sunday, November 20th

Kathleen Voss said:

Joan,
You have a real talent in making everything look so easy. I wonder if I will ever reach that star.
Thank you,

Sunday, November 20th

Joan said:

Hi Kathleen

Thanks for visiting and for your very nice compliment. A lot of what I’m doing isn’t really hard, but it does take many hours of practice
and experimentation to develop your own style. I always hope I can give people a starting off point that is a little further on in the continuum
than I began to try to paint watercolours digitally.
Glad to see you taking HOS! Karen, Skip and Elaina are wonderful teachers! See you there!

Happy Painting,

Joan

Monday, November 21st

Amit Sadik said:

it's look more like an oil painting or something, cool!!

Wednesday, November 23rd

Joan said:

Hi Skip

Thanks Skip for your great comments as always!

Happy Painting,

Joan

Wednesday, November 23rd

Joan said:

Hi Amit

Thank you ...I think! lol!

Cheers,
Joan

Wednesday, November 23rd

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