How to Use Painter X for One-Stroke Painting
One Stroke painting is the technique popularized by home decorator Donna Dewberry. The technique utilizes two colors loaded on one brush and a series of strokes to create an image. In digital painting, this technique is hard to accomplish because the software does not always allow dual colors on one brush. Corel Painter X allows you to use the automatic color set tools to load your brush of choice with two colors at once. Using the color-mixing palette, you can lay out the colors as if mixing real paint on a palette and load your brush with the paint.
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Instructions
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Open Corel Painter X and click on "File" and then "New." Set the height and width to 500 pixels and click "OK." Press Ctrl and M on your keyboard to center the image. For a Mac, press Cmd and M.
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Open the mixer by choosing "Window," "Color Palettes" and then "Show Mixer."
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Choose a color from the color palette. In the Mixer, click on the brush icon. Paint a small of amount of the color in the mixer.
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Choose a new color from the color palette. Paint a small amount next to the previous color. Mix the colors together using the dirty brush icon.
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Choose one of the Oils from the brush palette with a flat daub type, such as Opaque Flat. Set your brush size to 18. Any of the following daub types, as well as Real Bristle brushes and Artists Oil, can use multiple colors on one brush: Camel Hair, Flat, Bristle Spray, Blend Camel Hair and Blend Flat.
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Click on "Pickup Multiple Colors" in the mixer. Click on the color just below (or to one side) of the blended part of the two colors to load your brush with the colors. For example, if you painted a line of blue and a line of red and then blended them so purple is in the middle, click on the red just next to the purple. Now your brush is loaded with two colors, as the One Stroke technique requires.
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Tips & Warnings
Experiment with different brushes to get different effects using two or more colors.
References
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- Photo Credit painting by artists image by Ivonne Wierink from Fotolia.com
