This is Krisse's assignment site for LVS course Brush Basics,
provided by Karen Bonaker. 12.5.2007 - 23.6.2007 Course assistant Hillary Sadur

Week 1

Exploring and Building Brushes
Managing and Saving Brush Variants
The Cloner Brushes
Cloning Methods.

Cloning Methods

First steps I did in Photoshop like color adjustments, masking and duplicating strawberries, leaves and an apple.

In Painter I made a quick clone for the image and had three layers in my work, pen stokes, painting and background layers.

The first image is a rollover image, including original and the work I like most. I used Artist Oil's Dry Bristle 8,8 grain 25% viscosity 35% blend 20% wetness 50%, in cloning mode. Making small brush strokes. For the background layer I used John's Impressionist from John Derry's brushes.

In these small images below I tried different surface texture. The first one is having rough paper as it was asked to add to this assignment. For the second I add first brush strokes and then lightly rough paper. For the third one I used image luminance.

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Managing and Saving Brush Variants

Didn't manage in my auto cloning project yet, but instead I try different brushes and did create one of my own. I have used the brush in my image making thin hairs of this flower.

For the background I used Soft Blender brush from Artist's Oils and default Basic Paper for texture.The two flowers in front are in my painting layer and those I made using Dry Brush form Artist's Oils. They are having 3D brush strokes texture effect.

You may download my texture brush from here.

Auto Painting

I happen to see Karen's tutorial in Painter Talk about using auto painting /auto cloning.
This auto-painting palette acts quite similar like AHB in Photoshop. There was also under painting palette,
which I used in this Gerbera work. I play with Intense Color using mainly Scribble Large,
but tried some other stroke types too.
I can imagine this would be handy to use with selections. For adding some details to flower centers for example.
The brush I used in here was also Artist's Oils Dry Brush. My texture is 3D Brush strokes.