Steps to Painting Pink Forest -Semi Abstract Digital Watercolour

Eight techniques used to get to this point from the last save: 

•  Using a Straight Cloner Brush: I created some of the shapes by negatively painting around some colours using the cloner brush as a paint brush. Using a cloner can help you preserve colours and textures you want throughout your painting for a sense of cohesiveness and harmony. Note that I am cloning from within my own painting.  You put the cloner brushe where you want to clone from, press down the lt and V key and start painting. Try not to get carried away with this either.

•  Using a Flat Grainy Stump (tiny and squeezed a bit) you can vary the shape of your edges by pulling paint with this brush. It's best not to do this in large areas because it is a textureless brush that leaves a flat looking area in your lovely watercolour texture. There are ways to get some of that texture back in, if you haven't flattened things too much.  

• Selected a small lasso section of a greenish tree area. Copied and pasted it to continue the same tree colours and texture into the left side of the painting.

• Introduced a new media Pencil on a new layer. I drew the vivid coloured birch trees with pencil. After dropping the layer I Blended them very slightly with Just Add Water.

• Dropped all the layers to canvas, lifted them to a watercolour layer, then wet the entire watercolour layer very lightly to blend in some of the flattened areas. I still wanted sharp edges so I didn't blend very much.

• Select irreguar area in sky to lighten contrast and brightness. Using same selection transform it by stretching it out and moving to the left. That's how I achieved the mountain top which finally gave me some of the depth I was looking for.

•  Apply some very light wet watercolour glazes to help define certain areas.