Watercolor Spring Particles – Painter 2016

Posted on September 14, 2015 by Winifred Whitfield

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jkyR65k3LE

These painting examples were created with Painter 2016 Watercolor Spring Particle brush dab type using Real Wet Buildup Sub Category. Pause diffusion was enabled and never released. If you release it, you get a different look. The link for the brush is below.

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With Color Expression expressed as “pressure”, it is very important to set rather high color jitter and smoothing levels. This is what gives you the color variation and texture. Without this the colors blend and might appear very dull.

The brush is not so easy to control, but you can gain some mastery with familiarization and with practice. Give yourself extra canvas space to crop just the best part of your painting. Experiment with the Watercolor controls, the Particles Common Controls and the Spring Particles Controls to vary the brush looks. If you get a brush look you like, save the variant immediately. If you don’t save it then you will likely never see that look again – ever!!

These brushes are very sensitive to brush calibration and every other brush control slider which affects them, with each nuance movement giving you something different.

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Winifred is Painting in Painter X3 with Watercolors

Posted on October 8, 2013 by Winifred Whitfield

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMKcnTO40hE&feature=c4-overview&list=UUEKjs5nR2wkjtO6q7iYzv9A

Real Watercolor Controls Basics

I am having so much fun. I enjoy the creative journeys I take myself on. Always so much to learn and so much new to create.

In this tutorial, I demonstrate how to make basic changes to your “Real Watercolor” Property Bar settings, in order to create customized brushes variants suited to your needs and taste. I manipulate settings one at a time, holding others constant, to demonstrate the effect. The difference between Digital WC, Watercolor and Real Watercolor is briefly described. After viewing this tutorial you will feel more confident in your ability to paint with Painter’s Real Watercolor and control your brushes. This tutorial is for users of Painter 12 as well. Personally, I am enjoying learning more about these brushes each day and the only way to do this is to paint and to experiment.

You will see several of my recent Painter “Real Watercolor” paintings in the video but I have added additional Watercolor practices paintings below. I am constantly working on my brushstrokes. One of my objectives it to use fewer strokes – to simplify my paintings.