Digital Painting With Natural Media
Black boots and Italian basketweave scarf.
Autumn. Boots and scarf and hat and gloves. Shiny street, wet from the rain, sometimes black with a little purple or blue.
My head is still spinning from this week’s adventure with natural media software, Painter 11. The way the paints interact with each other and the canvas, the texture and detail is mind blowing! Exploring the brushes, markers, chalk, pastels, watercolor and oil, just to mention a few, and if this isn’t enough you can make your own brushes with the RealBristle tool. You can control the width of brush strokes by the tilt of your pen, just like when you use a real, traditional brush! It’s amazing… You can decide to leave a layer of digital watercolor in wet mode, so that it’s still wet when you continue, whether you continue working on your painting a month or a day later! It’s like having access to all the natural media you can imagine, without having to take it out of storage, wash the brushes or deal with the toxins, mess and expenses! There’s a free demo of Painter that you can download to give it a trial run.
This weekend I’m looking forward to visiting the blogs of fellow artists in The Fish Bowl. Seeing Julie and Julia at the beautiful cinema Skandia, designed by Gunnar Asplund in 1923. Creating a reading corner with a grey sheepskin Lamino armchair in the living room and washing the kitchen floor.
I hope you have a wonderful and restful weekend!
Red leaves and berries.
Tags: autumn, black, grey, natural media, orange, Painter, red, software, technology, watercolours
Hi Kate, I haven’t heard of Painter 11 so thx for sharing! I saw J&J last weekend and really enjoyed the movie. What did you think of it? The cinema that you are going to see it in looks so beautiful… what a treat to see the movie there! I’m going to see Mao’s Last Dancer today. have a great week! Wini :)
Oh, I’d love to hear more about Mao’s Last Dancer! Did you like it? Over to your blog to take a peek and see if you’ve written about it!
Isn’t Painter amazing! I love it. It really is like having ALL the media right at your fingertips without ever having to make a mess. So much fun! Have you checked out their Corel Painter Magazine? They always have fun tutorials and techniques too. I’m so glad you found it… Now what are you going to do when the trial version runs out ? I’ve got to start saving up my pennies.
Oh by the way I forgot to mention I love the new picture of you on here! :)
Hi Kate. Painter sounds very intriguing. I used to design textiles all on the computer. It is much faster then painting by hand. The possibilities are endless. CraftSanity is great. I have a whole list of the podcasts that I want to listen to. She is a great interviewer. Very inspiring.
Have a great weekend. And I wish I could look forward to washing the kitchen floor! :)
@Shalae, YES Painter is fantastic, but overwhelming and a little daunting too! Thanks SO much for the tips, I’ll need any tutorials I can lay my hands on! Is this the url for the mag? http://www.paintermagazine.co.uk/ Oh, and I’d love to see some work you’ve created with Painter! Yeah… I’ll be saving my pennies too! Thank you for your comment about my picture too! I asked a friend to take one… in the end!
@Dana Yes, it’s so amazing to be able to create separate layers for natural media… Looking forward to the podcasts, thanks for the tip, and yeah… so far my enthusiasm for washing the kitchen floor is somewhat limited… Tomorrow perhaps!
Painter software looks amazing. I have never tried any digital panting software….err expect for Paint (ok not a pro painting software hehe) Love these gorgeous photos! Hope your having a lovely merry happy weekend and love to yoU!
Yes it really blows my mind! I can only use it for about an hour, it’s overwhelming, but in a very good way! Unfortunately the free demo is running towards its end… But I do recommend downloading it just to try it out! Hope you are having a wonderful weekend too!