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I am looking for a watercolor brush that may do this type of pooling and grain pick up

http://asap-design.blogspot.com/2006/12/sujean-rim.html

I presume this artist did not do this in painter.

GB 

Have you tried the digital watercolour brushes gonkob?

I also wanted to try to re-create that grainy pool of pigments that you can get with traditional water colour paintings and became very frustrated not finding it in the watercolour tools.

Then I used the digital water colours, increased the wet fringe and reduced or removed the diffusion and added the surface texture of the paper at about 20% before painting. I found it was much better and more to my liking.

Thank you for the brush recipe! can you send me a link to the watercolour brush vendor?

Thanks!

gb 

Hi ginkob,

Welcome to The PainterFactory! 

I'm not sure what you mean by "watcolour vendor", but I believe squirrel is referring to the Corel Painter Digital Watercolor brush category which is available in the following Corel Painter versions:

Painter 8 through 8.1

Painter IX thorugh IX.5

Painter X through X.1

 
squirrel and ginkob,

It's not necessary to add texture before painting unless you want to. Any brush variant that interacts with Paper texture will apply the appearance of texture in the brush stroke as you paint.

Also, as long as Digital Watercolor paint remains wet, the Wet Fringe slider can be adjusted to control how much the wet fringe shows.

In the demo below, you'll see two Papers each set to three different Papers palette Contrast slider settings, and again using the Painter X.1 Digital Watercolor's New Simple Water variant:

I've made a Digital Watercolor brush that looks very natural, took me some time until I've come with the results I was after but it's my favorite brush in Painter by a long shot, I've also scanned my Canson papers and now I can do pretty realistic watercoloring in Painter 6.1, I just use the Watercolor, WashBrush Diffuse and Blotchy which are brushes all made by me from scratch, I've spent an whole afternoon scanning and doing blobs on watercolor paper to be used as brushes. In this new screenshot I used the default Painter paper which doesn't result as good but I was too lazy to import my old Painter 6 papers into the trial of Painter 9:

This is just a beautiful brush! I love watercolor and love to see what is possible. This is getting very close!

Well done,

Karen

 Hello,

I just happened upon this site looking for work by Sujean Rim and found the information you provided...I have a question:  Sujean's bird is (or can be) painted with a digital software?  I am obviously living under a rock and I very much would love to find out what software I can purchase and learn to paint on my computer.  If you would be so kind as to enlighten me I would very much appreciate it...the rock has been hard to get out from under!

Thank you,

Kymberli

It depends if you want to mimic the experience of working with watercolors or the look of watercolors.

This software mimics the experience of real water and how it behaves, proper watercolor simulation, if this is what you're looking forward then forget Corel Painter:

http://visgraph.cs.ust.hk/MoXi/

http://visgraph.cs.ust.hk/MoXi/video/MoXiSmall.avi

The bird illustration I posted was a recreation of the original work but I did it all in Corel Painter using Digital Watercolors and custom paper textures just to show that it's possible to mimic the look of watercolors.

 Hiya!  You really recreated Sujean's bird on a computer?  WOW!!  Sorry...really...this is amazing to me...it looks just like the original!!  I would LOVE to learn how to do this for my own watercolor work, it sure would be easier to fix a mistake ;).  I'm just a little confused about which software you think looks and acts most like real watercolor painting...the Corel or the Visual Graphics.  I would also appreciate your direction concerning the best/easiest way to learn the software...a book...tutorial...???

Thank you so much for your help!

Blessings :)

furio,

Unless you had prior written permission to copy Sujean's bird then publish the copy here it's not a good idea to do that as it can be an issue of copyright infringement.

If you did have specific prior written permission from Sujean to copy her bird and publish the copy here at The PainterFactory, then you may be OK, but it would be a good idea to check with The PainterFactory administrators to be sure:

PainterFactory@corel.com

 Hiya!  You really recreated Sujean's bird on a computer?  WOW!!  Sorry...really...this is amazing to me...it looks just like the original!!  I would LOVE to learn how to do this for my own watercolor work, it sure would be easier to fix a mistake ;).  I'm just a little confused about which software you think looks and acts most like real watercolor painting...the Corel or the Visual Graphics.  I would also appreciate your direction concerning the best/easiest way to learn the software...a book...tutorial...???

Thank you so much for your help!

Blessings :)

I just used my watercolors brushes with a custom real watercolor paper texture, if you wish to try my brushes download them here http://sharebee.com/7c94fbfe then you need to download the trial of Painter 10 from the Corel's site to try them.

furio:

I've made a Digital Watercolor brush that looks very natural, took me some time until I've come with the results I was after but it's my favorite brush in Painter by a long shot, I've also scanned my Canson papers and now I can do pretty realistic watercoloring in Painter 6.1, I just use the watercolor, blotchy and WashBrush Diffuse which are brushes all made by me, in this new screenshot I use the default Painter paper which doesn't result as good but I was too lazy to import my old Painter 6 papers into the trial of Painter 9:

 

Hi furio,

This is a beautiful demo! I think it shows how your custom brush/technique works better than the first demo.

I haven't downloaded your custom brush variant yet but plan to do that and spend some time playing.

Thanks so much for sharing it with us!