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I decided to give chalk a whirl. It didn’t act at all like chalk as I remember when I worked with chalk. I added some of my squiggle that I love and turned them black and white for interest in the, what do I call it? It’s not a painting, I guess it’s a chalking? I don’t know. But it was fun, but I’m moving on to other media.
Flower & Shapes
Yesterday I did two paintings. That’s a record for me. Usually I take days to paint one painting. I actually finished up one piece that had driven me crazy. It was another flower piece using Skip Allen’s Flower Maker brush.
I took a break for lunch, and went to my Reader to see what was going on in the blogging world. The first blog was Skip’s. He had posted another set of videos on using color effects and brushes using stroke attribute. Those of you who use Painter know what I’m talking about, probably. The use of the stroke attribute brush had totally eluded me since I first got Painter.
I watched Skip’s videos and found out that the stroke attribute brush acts exactly the same as layer composition effects, except directly on the paint. Wow. I couldn’t wait to get back to my flowers. The three ovals behind the flowers were totally too dark. So I used the detail oil brush with stroke attribute on and brought back out the light purples that had originally been there. Then I worked on some of the other shapes and brought back their gradations. Then I went to work on the flowers. They seemed like they needed more white, so I lightened them up. Then I looked at what I had done and saw they lacked enough color. So I used Adjust Selected Colors under Effects and brought back the colors, only better. I used the lasso tool to outline each flower before applying the effect to each of them. Skip had also talked about this effect in his videos.
For anyone with an interest in Painter, I highly recommend Skip’s You Tube site and his blog. He is full of information on Painter.
Merry Christmas Flowers
These are some more watercolor flowers I did with Skip Allen’s fabulous flower making brush.
I want to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas to those celebrating this holiday. I’m going to my nephew’s house today to share with family.
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I have never been interested in doing watercolor paintings, as they are a whole art unto themselves. But lately, I’ve been drawn to try watercolor. I have no idea where this has come from. I’ve never even really liked watercolors.
But, now that I’m paying more attention to them, I see they are really beautiful. They are delicate and so interesting. I never know exactly what a brush will do.
Yesterday at Skip Allen Paints, Skip posted ten videos showing him painting a watercolor. If you use Painter, then you really should check Skip out. He makes wonderful brushes and videos. All free. This, to me, is incredibly generous. He could be charging a whole lot of money for what he gives away.
Skip just posted a new brush set on his blog. You can download it here. They are Flower Brushes. A set of mostly watercolors including this fabulous brush, that when used with the right kind of paper, will paint flowers.
I’ve had all kinds of fun making papers to use with the flower brush.
So, yesterday, while watching Skip’s videos, I painted along and came up with these purple flowers, which look to be Hydrangea.
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