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Wonderful use of paper texture too!

Superb. You have given me an effect to aspire to as I do love the real watercolour look.

Thanks for the kind words, folks! I did this quite awhile ago as a demo for my class. I took a photo of the objects, did a pencil sketch, and painted.

Here's a hint to get the watercolor paper texture wash in the background:

I used a large wash brush (camel I think) but it can be VERY slow at higher resolutions. So I simply did it at "screen res" (72dpi) and then increased the resolution to 300.

Normally this is a no-no as it can result in blurry images, but in this case it just made the wash smoother. I then painted the objects with smaller brushes that aren't so slow.

Good luck!

Thanks for the hint Stewart! Those large camels can be slow. Which paper did you use? I have gone through lots of papers in the libraries but haven't found one that really looks like watercolor paper like yours.

Danno -

This was done when these were introduced, probably Painter 7 as I recall. I think the paper was Hot Press Watercolor, which is still available in the paper libraries in Painter 10.

I actually think the Italian and French watercolor papers in the default library in 10 look pretty good.

Here's another hint about the paper textures - I always enlarge them and increase the contrast in the Papers palette to help bring out their qualities some. I know I did this here. And as you've probably discovered, in many variants cases you actually have to LOWER the grain slider number to exaggerate their "depth".

Good paper tips! The grain slider adjustment was something new to me. I thought the hot press would be like real hot press and be slick and so I did not try it. I will now.