replicating painter 6 water color in painter 8?

**pibb991** · February 28th, 2004, 02:45 PM

is this possible? i just saw puddnhead do a demo in painter5(but he uses 6) and i would like to be able to replicate the way he does glazes with the watercolor brush in painter 6. i messed around using digital watercolor and gel but it doesnt work for transparent glazes

**davidheijl** · April 14th, 2004, 03:24 AM

hey, i'm just starting to play around with painter, but I was at the Amsterdam workshop two weeks ago, and I saw all the guys (Android, Jason, Kev) apply the following technique:
- create new layer
- set to multiply
- apply glazes (use white to erase the watercolor glaze)
- drop layer when satisfied
- repeat until masterpiece is ready

hope this helps...

david

**Jin** · April 14th, 2004, 05:00 AM

Hi,

What brush variants did they use to apply glazes?

When you say "watercolor glaze", to you mean Painter's Water Color variants, and if so, which?

Thanks in advance,

**davidheijl** · April 14th, 2004, 05:04 AM

hey,

might have been unclear...

I think (from what I can remember) that they actually used their regular brushes (digital airbrush and chalks mostly) to apply glaze-like effects.

I didn't see any of them use a "real" watercolor or other liquid tool during the entire workshop.

cheers

david

**davidheijl** · April 14th, 2004, 05:05 AM

oh yes, and they always used rather large brushes right up to the very end when they started on the details...

they really stressed that you should always use as large a brush as possible.

**Jin** · April 14th, 2004, 05:51 AM

Thanks.

I've heard other Painter artists say they use some of the simpler brush variants to get a watercolor effect.

If they were using the Airbrushes' Digital Airbrush and the Chalks' variants, that might account for their being able to use larger brush sizes without a problem (assuming they had no problems and were working on large images).

Other artists say they use the Pastels variants for a watercolor look.

It's common for Painter users to think that the brush category name is their true guide to which brush variants will give certain effects, but as we can see, that's not always the case.

We can feel free to try any brush variant and tweak any of them to get the results we want, whether it be watercolor, oils, or whatever. "A rose by any othe r name.....", after all.

Experiment!

**davidheijl** · April 14th, 2004, 05:57 AM

i'll give the pastels a try as well...

i must say, i've been experimenting with their approach and it does give a nice glazed look; not very watercolor-like, in my opinion, but very cool nevertheless. rembrandt-y, you know...