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Some excerpts from upcoming article in True Colours for Digital Paint MagazineThese a few of the pages from the upcoming article. To receive your free issue of Digital Paint Magazine click on the Blogroll link and sign up for it. March issue should be out soon. The deadline for the column is March 15th. The full tutorial will be found in there.
Teardrops in the Snow
 Illustration 3: Copyright JoanAHamilton
Use a Combination of Digital Watercolours and Wet Watercolours I have found the easiest and best way to get an authentic watercolour look is to use a combination of both types of watercolours. You can use Painter 11 brushes, vary your own or use some of Skip Allen’s excellent watercolour variants. They are available on the Painter Talk Forum. First use the PSW brush in a few greens of similar hue and tone to lay down the base colours of the leaves. You can paint with the diffusion on in some areas and some with it off to vary your soft and hard edges.
Next apply some very light wet soft glazes to the leaves especially in the darker areas.
 lllustration 5: Copyright Joan A Hamilton
Techniques to Achieve a More Traditional Watercolour Appearance The illustration shows WC Layer 1 in the Layers Palette. It was previously a Layer painted with DWC only. I wanted to see how the colours would blend and look wetter if I dropped, dried then lifted the canvas to a WC layer. I also Wet the entire new WC layer slightly. Along with the Non-destructive Texture Layer this added a subtle grainy wet look. The background watercolour wash is visible on the Layers Palette as WC Layer 10. It also had to be dropped to erase the petal and leaf areas from the WC layer. It is difficult to erase tiny areas of watercolour without it going further than you want all by itself! Watercolour Layers 6 and 9 are some soft wet glazes on and around the bottom leaves. I think the illustration shows the PSW brush because I was painting Layers 2 and 3 in digital Watercolours.  Illustration 6: Copyright Joan A Hamilton Painting the Background Layer I painted a dark background or two before I decided it was too heavy and dark and overwhelmed the delicate flowers and leaves.
Decided to try for a lighter, soft diffused background bearing in mind that text would be overlaid in the card version. It is difficult to get a smooth wash like this. There are a number of ways to do it. I used Skip Allen’s Square Wet Brush. Water Control sand Brush properties are shown in Illustration 6.
The full article should be available soon and you may request emailed PDF's of this tutorial after it has been published.
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