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My first attempt at a “Chinese” style painting. Actually, I’ll be honest and admit that I pieced this together from my practice paintings. I’ve been teaching myself some Chinese painting techniques from library books (which I can’t read because they are in Chinese). To practice I did a whole sheet of just rocks, just ducks, just trees, etc. I cut these up to put my favorites into my sketchbook, and then I realized that if I arranged and glued them on to another piece of rice paper they go together rather seamlessly. I like this technique until I get the skills to do a whole painting from start to finish.
With this week's topic, I had a childhood memory of how I used to always wonder where the seeds from a flower would plant themselves when you blew them into the wind. (I know...totally corny!) I am sure my neighbors could have done without me blowing weeds into their yard.
Here is a quick experimentation with Painter's digital watercolor brushes and Hard Pastel on Rice paper. I have not used Painter's watercolors in awhile and I had forgotten how wonderful the brushes are for showing fluid movement. (the seeds blowing out of the dandelion are the "Spatter Water" brush.) When I worked traditonally, I could never control my spatters and would always end up with a muddy mess.
If people like this experimentation then maybe I will do a tutorial next on painter's watercolor and pastels tools. Let me know if you are interested...
By: Kate Hall,
on 11/1/2007
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The last of the Bedwyn stories and the one that I have been looking forward to the most. This is the story of the Duke of Bewcastle who, up until this book, has been portrayed as a cold, arrogant man with little feeling for his siblings (except at rare moments when he can’t seem to help himself) It is obvious that he has been deeply hurt and needs love. Enter Christine Derrick, a widow and person who lives life to the fullest. Disasters seem to follow her everywhere and Wulfric seems to be the one who is always saving her. Despite himself he seems to be falling for her. So he offers for her to be his mistress. She is appalled and tells him so. More time passes and they are thrown together in a lot of different ways. Is Wulfric’s heart thawing or will he always have ice for a heart?
Of course we want a tuturiol. We love your tut's. Painter is on my list of Stimulus purchases as sooner as I get it.
And no you are not corny, I still wonder about seeds and wind and distances.
Do you know mold spores can travel 500 miles a week?
Carlyn- great to see you again! Glad to see you back on your blog, too. A couple of hours ago, one of my kids was recreating this scene of yours in my garden. Blowing dandelion fluff directly into my garden! I KNOW where those dandelions are gonna grow- heehee! This piece has a really nice feel to it.
Love your illustration! And yes please do post Painter tutorials! I would love to do more with this program.
I love the color combination! It's so soft and comfortable!
Lovely illustration.
I don't work in painter but I find all of your tutorials fascinating so that would be great if you had time.
Thanks for your generosity!
Beautiful experiment!
I love the feel of this piece! Makes me want to get a dandelion and try it myself!
Wow - what an amazing blog! This is beautiful and your Pet Peeves illustration is absolutely stunning. I am quite scared of photoshop, but you are tempting me to play with some of your tutorials! Thanks for your comments on my blog too! It made me smile.
interested!