Wet-into-Wet Watercolor
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Wet-into-Wet Watercolor
From The Painter 7 Wow! Book, by Cher Threinen-Pendarvis
Overview Make a "pencil sketch"; loosely paint smooth washes with Water Color brushes to build up varied color; add subtle wet-into-wet bristle marks; add details to the image and create a speckled texture using Salt.
By Cher Threinen-Pendarvis
Pink Orchid, a loose digital water color study, was painted from life in Painter 7 with a Wacom Intuos pressure-sensitive tablet and stylus. Water Color wet-into-wet techniques were used, then details and texture were added. Wet-into-wet is a traditional technique that can be simulated using Painter 7's new Water Color technology. Wet-into-wet is the most þuid way to apply color, as it involves keeping the paper wet while new color is applied, so new colors blend with existing moist paint. Painter 7 offers the þexibility of new Water Color media layers, making the medium much more versatile than in previous versions of the program.
1 Setting up and opening a new file. For the best performance, Macintosh users may need to increase the RAM that is allotted to Painter when working with Water Color.
Begin by creating a new file with a white background (File, New). In the New dialog box, click the Image button. For a square format, set the Width and Height at 675 x 675 pixels. Click OK. (The brush sizes that you'll use will depend on the pixel size of the document.)
Figure 1 Starting a new file for the Orchid painting
2 Making a pencil sketch. Choose a natural-looking grain (such as Cold Press Water Color) from the Papers section of the Art Materials palette. Choose a neutral gray color in the Colors section of the Art Materials palette and select the 2B Pencils variant of Pencils (in the Brushes palette) to draw your line sketch. We set up our blooming orchid plant next to the computer and sketched from life.
Figure 2 The pencil sketch drawn in Painter using the 2B Pencil variant of Pencils
Setting brush tracking
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