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I'm continuing to experiment with Painter. I did this little 5 x 7 inch oil painting to try some new brushes. I used a Van Gogh Artist brush to start and then used a number of Impasto brushes and finished up with a Round Camelhair Oil brush. I took the reference photo in the rhododendron gardens in Eugene, Oregon.
This week I installed Painter 8 on my new MacBook. This is my first trial painting based on a digital photo I took at the Basket Slough wildlife preserve near Rickreall, Oregon. I used a couple of "Oil" brushes on this 12 by 16 inch image. It took me two hours to complete it. As I compare it to my other paintings done in Painter 5, I find I really prefer the custom brushes I made in version 5. I'll have to do a lot of experimentation to duplicate those brushes in this new version since I can't figure out how to import the older version brushes.
I printed this image on my Epson 1280 on Epson Velvet Matt Heavyweight paper. I looks very rich, but too soft. Most of the brush strokes blend too much with the underlying paint.
Create drawings, flowcharts, floorplans and other illustrations with Gliffy which is a draw program that works in a web browser. People can collaborate on the same drawing and drawings can be embedded on web pages, blogs, and wikis. The program is a Flash application so nothing is downloaded and run from your computer. You can also save drawings and each drawing has four differtent versions at various sizes.
