PAINT FROM YOUR IMAGINATION

Experimenting with digital brushes is something I always stress when I teach because it is SO important to know what your brushes can actually do!  Have fun, play around and see where those brushes can take you. Put down your photographic references and paint from your heart!

This painting SUMMER STORM evolved just from dragging a brush or 2 across my digital canvas.  First I painted.  Then I went one step further and added a canvas texture from my BOHEMIAN CANVAS COLLECTION which you can find on my website paintedtextures.com

Adding my texture And a few more brush strokes:

GET TO KNOW YOUR DIGITAL BRUSHES

Getting to know what your digital brushes can do and which one is best for which effect is EXTREMELY important when attempting to paint digitally.  Right now I am working with my digital oil brushes in Painter X3 in preparation for my upcoming workshop and I paint with them everyday.  Constant practice is important!  Just PLAY-GET TO KNOW EACH ONE before you even commit to doing a painting.  Create little miniatures where you just play around with one or maybe 2 brushes at the most.  Sometimes these little mini sketches will evolve into a little painting and sometimes they won't.  So what?!!  These exercises are for your learning and for gaining experience with your brushes.  Traditional painters have their favorite brushes-well digital painters can have theirs too... And digital painters can change the settings on just ONE brush to get it to create several different effects.  Below is a mini painting that I ended up calling BATTLESHIP.  It's only 3.33x3.33 inches at 300dpi-very small indeed-but it packs ALOT of information for me.  I used just one of my new brushes, but changed it's settings here and there to create a few different looks.

 

 

Here is another image that I created with the same brush called UNDERGROWTH:

 

 

PULLING AN IMAGE OUT OF THE BACKGROUND WITH DIGITAL PAINT

Creating a simple background and then pulling an image through is so much fun and relatively easy.  This will be demoed in my new workshop PAINTER X3 FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS coming in September!  Right now you can pre-order the course for $89 on my website:
http://paintedtextures.com/section729125.html


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STEP 2

 

 

 

 

 

STEP 3

 

 

 

 

 

FINAL PAINTING