Splashing Water- Skip Allen's wonderful watercolour brushes for digital painting in Corel Painter 11

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• The first step was to pick a gradient as colour ( Pool Light), resize splat,  take the jitter off (Random Brush Control) and make a few splats along the bottom where I want to darken things and add some depth.
• Then I used my DWC Blender from my Apple Brush Set to blend and soften the splats.
• The above Illustration shows the layer with these strokes on it. I have turned off the other layers

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• the above illustration shows the blended strokes with the other layers turned on.
• some of the splats were erased from the orchids and some were left for now. It's nice not to have to worry about your dabbing going too far. You will have to do some close to the orchids and they will cover it, but you can easily erase that part.
• the layer opacity has also been reduced to tone down the darkness of these brush strokes and blended areas.

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•  Smooth Water Wash is an unusual watercolour variant in that you need to use intense colour and repeated glazes to build up a soft diffused wash with it. I used it on the orchid petals here because I wanted this petal to look very soft.
• Set the flow of water to go in the direction of the petals striations (even if you can see them, it looks better.)

• I used my Fine tip DWC in a a few different hues of purple and diffused it slightly with my DWC Diffuser.
• If it starts to look too fuzzy, blend it again very lightly with the DWC Soft Blender 
• these brushes are in my Apple Set which you can have on request by email if you sign up to my newsletter! :)
• *I am in the process of refining this set and hope to have a couple of basic sets that contain the brushes I use a lot very soon! Some of them will be based on variations of Skip's brushes. Isn't that the nature of brushes...you need to tweak them to suit your own workflow and style. I know Skip doesn't mind and neither do I, if you alter our brushes for your own use.

• Square Wet Brush is a nice wet, slightly textured (depends on your paper texture too)

• Changing the Grain Setting to 0 % doesn't change the way  it reacts with the paper, so if you want a brush that doesn't react with paper this isn't the one for you!
• Square Wet Damp doesn't react with paper at 0 % grain settings

 

• This is a really wild kind of background compared to my usual more realistic style.
• It was a lot of fun to play with the Wet Palm Novelty Brush using the gradient Vivid Mixture as the colour.
• Dropped the WC layer and blended it a bit with Just Add Water Blender
• Then lifted it to a WC layer and wet the entire canvas.
• Not sure if I will keep this background, but experimenting is necessary to learn new things!
• I have to repaint the centers of all the orchids, but I wasn't worried about that for this experiment.
• Try painting some backgrounds with different gradients for other looks! It's FUN!

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• Using Skips Square Wet Watercolour with a Jungle Greens gradient selected in Colour Variability
• Varying the direction of your strokes a bit, paint the bottom WC layer of the Foliage area 

 

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• The next step is to drop your watercolour layer to the canvas, this effectively dries it
• Using a Just Add Water Blender with settings shown, lightly and softly blend the dried watercolour on your canvas
• Foliage looks more realistic and interesting when some of the sky shows through
• Needed to remove some of the paint, but need to keep the edges and shapes in mind
• Changed some settings on Skips Closed Splat brush and used that captured dab to create a digital paint remover and a general soft eraser. So it's still really Skip's Brush!
• Now erase some of the paint from this background foliage using this brush judiciously, (meaning don't get carried away with making big holes ... yet!)

• Lifting the Canvas back to a Watercolour Layer can be done for number of reasons.
• You can drop individual layers to the canvas and lift them to the watercolour layer,you do not need to drop all your layers to do this. Nor do you always want to, or prts of your painting will be getting progressively wetter than the newer parts.

  
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• Using the Wet Entire WC Layer Function from the Layers Menu
• These are the settings that really matter with this brush. 

You can obtain my Apple Brush Set by joining my Newsletter List and sending me an email requesting them.

Posted in Beginner's Tips for Corel Painter 11 and 12 Digital Painting. Updated March 30th, 2011. 1 comment so far. Share on StumbleUpon, Delicious or Digg.

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