I'm loving playing with Artrage 4 again, especially its watercolour settings. (I'm not an Artrage affiliate, by the way, I just love its ease of use). Here are the several stages of a watercolour featuring the purpley-blue flowers from our window box, given lots of artistic licence.
I think they're "pincushion flowers", or have the less-than-lovely name of "Scabious", but they have their own determined beauty, and the bees love them.
Anyway, first of all, I started with the flowers, using Artrage. I chose a watercolour paper setting, and increased the grain slightly, using low-blend and a small brush size for the stems, and the "just a spot" watercolout brush for the petals.
I might yet pop these into a pattern, but as they are, I felt they needed some fixing into the ground.
So Stage Two involved "just a spot" brush leaves...
Again, they might yet have a purpose all their own. But it still felt like they needed fixing into some earth.
So it was onto some flecks, again with the "just a spot" brush....
Very definitely, this design on the right would make a card.
But then, using a combination of "low blend" watercolour paint blobs in new Artrage layer, and the spreading around of those blobs with the "Just Water" setting, the final version of this digital painting (for now!) turned into the picture you see below.
Would you have left this here, or earlier? Or would you have added more? Please do leave a comment and let me know what you think. Thanks!
I think they're "pincushion flowers", or have the less-than-lovely name of "Scabious", but they have their own determined beauty, and the bees love them.
Anyway, first of all, I started with the flowers, using Artrage. I chose a watercolour paper setting, and increased the grain slightly, using low-blend and a small brush size for the stems, and the "just a spot" watercolout brush for the petals.
I might yet pop these into a pattern, but as they are, I felt they needed some fixing into the ground.
So Stage Two involved "just a spot" brush leaves...
So it was onto some flecks, again with the "just a spot" brush....
Very definitely, this design on the right would make a card.
But then, using a combination of "low blend" watercolour paint blobs in new Artrage layer, and the spreading around of those blobs with the "Just Water" setting, the final version of this digital painting (for now!) turned into the picture you see below.
Would you have left this here, or earlier? Or would you have added more? Please do leave a comment and let me know what you think. Thanks!
