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Ways to Paint Trees with Digital Watercolours I have been experimenting with different ways to paint trees the past month (whenever I get the chance!) Have discovered a new (to me) Canadian watercolourist Ross Monk whose work has influenced mine a great deal because this is how I would love to paint! The brushstrokes, the colours and the subject matter really excited me because it's what I am aiming for in my digital watercolours. Not sure if it is possible, but I am developing my own style as I try!
 Skip Allen's Splashing Water Digital Square Tool Blender is the brush I used for almost all of the shapes and some of the blending.
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Using the Splashing Water Digital Square Pool Blender (modified a little)Step One: The orange under layer is a Real Watercolour layer. The part on top of the trees was erased later, but the part under the trees remains.
Step Two: was to blend this slightly using a custom soft digital watercolour blender with: from 0 to 3 % diffusion in different areas to vary the edges between soft and hard and lost and found! I have a new custom brush for this called Digital WIW Blender (Wet into Wet). It can be used to blend and pull the paint or diffuse it depending on your settings.
Step Three: indicated some fine branches in some areas and painted in a few small conifers. This is just a quick study to show some methods of painting the orange tree area.
 Copyright Joan A Hamilton Septemebr 2011 - AllRights Reserved
This is a big leafy tree, although I haven't indicated individual leaves in any way. It's too far away to see the leaves! As you can see from the Layers Palette there a only three layers to this:
Watercolour Layer:
Digital Watercolour Layer:
Digital Watercolour Layer for Tree Branches:
So, there are two styles of trees and an introduction to using the Square Pool Blender. It does take some practice, but it has some randomness to it's action that really helps give you an authentic watercolour look.
My Basic Watercolour Brushes: the above mentioned brushes are all in this set, which I am working on. Many are derivatives of Skip Allen's Brushes from his various sets. You can obtain his brushes on his blog. (He is in my blogroll!)
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