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Hi all,

 So happy to have found you. I'm brand new (today) to the forum, and 2 weeks new to Painter. Have been using Photoshop extensively and want to add brushstrokes to my work and I'm told Painter is better at it than Photoshop.

 You can see my work on my website www.joaniesanchirico.com.  I work in mixed media and textiles and own an Epson 7800. If you look at portfolio>Environmental you'll see the work I've been making for a solo show in Santa Monica next month. I combine photos with digital paintings and print them out on fabric, hand stitch for texture and then stretch them like paintings and after that I put layers of acrylic medium on them. The result kind of looks like encaustic, but with enough scratch-your-head-how-did-she-do-that  to it.

 I keep using Photoshop commands in Painter and it's frustrating, so I need to learn my way around. Oh and what do you all think of autopaint, and is it a good tool or am I better off painting images from scratch.

Thanks and see you around,

Joanie

Hi Joanie,

I took a few days off or you'd have been greeted much sooner, so a belated but sincere.... Welcome to The PainterFactory!

What a treat to come back to find such a fascinating artist as you has joined us.

I took a quick peek at your website and know I could spend hours there, just exploring and reading.

Wonderful work!

My own take on Auto-Painting is that it can be great as a basis for more finished work (i.e. the beginning of a background for a painting), and it can be used for various other things such as creating Patterns and Paper textures to be using in other artworks.

Painter artists here at The PainterFactory will probably give you different answers and, if they use Auto-Painting in their workflow, I hope they'll share how they use it.

In the meantime, I'd suggest spending a little time just playing with Auto-Painting to see what develops. You may discover some new ways to use it that we haven't thought of yet. 

I hope we do see you around... really. It'll be fun having you here.

Cheers! 

Wow Jinny,  thank you for such kind words about my work! 

Since I wrote that I've been playing with Auto-paint and I dont' see that it can really help me. I have images that I've created in Photoshop that when I import to Painter lose all the layer styles like drop shadow, etc. It might work later for images created in Painter, but for my current purposes, I don't think so unless I'm missing something. I'd love to hear otherwise!

 The work is from my Catacombs series, but they're totally created digitally. Here are some examples using textiles http://www.joaniesanchirico.com/catacombs1.html if you want to see. I need to create these images from scratch digitally for my print dealer and he wants paint strokes to show. I created some great paint stroked backgrounds, but when I layer with the arch layers since I've lost the effects from Photoshop, the result is less than stunning. In fact, it's awful.

I guess I have to re-create the arches totally in Painter then.

 Anyway, thanks again and have a great day.

Very nice work! Im curious as to how you print onto textile? I didnt think it would feed through a printer all that well.

LexJet www.lexjet.com has a lot of ink jet printable textiles. Some have paper backings, but if they're substantial enough, you don't need the backing. The product can be seen in more detail here www.inkjettextiles.com

Jacquard http://www.inkjetfabrics.com/ also sells fabric.

 Hi Joanie

I love what you are doing, great work ... I've only played out my work to canvas and plastic ... the textile idea is new to me,

I guess I'll look at trying my hand at that too.

Thanks for sharing your art.

Thanks Chris!!