Hello Everyone,
Here is my newest set of watercolor brushes built around Corel Painter 12′s Real Watercolors. I really like these variants, but like all watercolor brushes they can be slow. I would recommend putting them in their own library. If you do not know how to do that, look through my pages for one about making brush libraries and installing brushes. There are a number of very wet runny brushes. These are really cool if you make a paper that directs their flow. These brushes will only work for Painter 12. It is not possible to make them backward compatible to earlier versions of Corel Painter, since the real watercolor codes are only in Corel Painter 12. OK, that’s it. Download the brushes and have fun.
With Painter 12.1 we can load a library including the brushes or a Category that can be installed in the Library of our choice.
Enjoy,
Skip
Hi Skip!
And many thanks for the brushes you have provided! Your watercolours are beautiful! As an illustrator I´have been looking for some nice water colour brushes Mostly for backgrounds, very hard to find in Painter. Have to say your bleeding brushes works very well!
Thanks again for your time and your funny videos!
By the way where is the erase brush?
Hi Kenneth,
Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment. I appreciate it more than you know. I enjoy making brushes and it is so rewarding when someone with your talent likes the variants.
Take any watercolor brush and go to Window > Brush Control Panels > General and change the subcategory to Wet Remove Density, and you will have an erase brush. I didn’t think to leave one set that way.
Enjoy,
Skip
Thanks again Skip!
Today after downloading new updates from Microsoft Wind. 7 My Wacom Intouos-4 Was no longer working! This has taken me hours to find out why.
I had to reinstall computer (to an earlier date) get it to work again. Still don’t know what happened. I know this is not your table, but as a Wacom user you might have some idea..?
Hi Kenneth,
I’m not sure what may have happened. I have also lost the use of my Wacom, but I can’t say that it is after a Windows 7 update. Usually I have to reinstall the driver. One thing that seems to help me is to do the following:
1. In the start menu, I enter services in search.
2. In the list, I click on services…not services.exe
3. In the services window under services (local) I find tabletserviceswacom and double click it.
4. In the window that opens, in the general tab, I change the startup type from automatic to automatic (delayed start)
Restart the computer and that seems to help. I cannot say for sure that this actually helps. I am not a techie.
Your best source would be to check with wacom support.
There is a new driver for the Intuos 4. I announced it on the blog, but then found out the European region had not updated the driver yet. I just checked and the driver number on Wacom Europe is the same number that is on the Americas…6.17-3. So, if you haven’t updated your driver that may help.
It drives me nuts when things don’t work right!
Good luck,
Skip
Thanks again Skip!
I downloaded the new driver 6.17-3 RC ( released on 09/06/2011 for Europe),and it seems to work!
Just don’t know if I want to download any updates for Windows for a while..
This also drives me nuts and takes to much valuable time!
Thanks again for your help!
Kenneth
Hi Kenneth,
You are very welcome.
Take care and I hope all behave and play nicely together.
Skip
I’m very new to painter (at least using it). I’ve signed up for the Introduction to Painter 12 Part I class on digitalartacademy.com. I figure before I develop bad habits I’ll start at the beginning. I’ll do your brush class after I get the basics out of the way, however… I’ve been trying out the brushes in the Cool Spring download. I have trouble remembering what each looks like so I took some time and produced a bunch of sample sheets with each brush identified. I like the texture 4 but would like it to not sling the paint so far afield. What parameter affects the spread of the “droplets” for lack of a better word. I’ve found it good for a background I’m doing that will have a darker oval area in the middle and lighten up to the edges. I like the randomness but wish it would stay closer to where I paint.
Also, I have my brushes installed in the /user location. When I first install a library, yours or any other, it works fine until I close Painter 12 and restart. At that point I see a new folder with a single brush inside such as an acrylic brush folder in with the Cool Spring folder. Since there is no .jpg for it the library won’t load. This has happened multiple times. I can clean it up by manually deleting the new folder and reloading the brush library. Got be a better way. I really like your videos. Thanks for sharing, Jim
Hi Jim,
First let’s talk about installing the brushes in the user area. That is the best place to install custom brushes and libraries, however, there is a pesky bug that is causing the problem you encountered. You need to install in the applications area instead. Look at my other pages and you will find one about libraries and installing brushes. It will tell you how to work in the applications area, but you sound like you know your stuff and probably do not need direction.
Now, about those names for brushes. In your class, you will find out that you can rename the brushes, which I think is cool. That way, you can change the names to what works best for you. If Elaina doesn’t cover it in Part 1, ask her about it and she will explain it.
To tame that texture 4 brush, go to Window > Brush Control Panel > Jitter. In the jitter panel lower the amount. I have it set to 4, which is give me all you got. You may want to try 2 or less. After you have it set the way you like it, go to Brushes > Save Variant and save the variant with a name that will remind you it is your variation on Texture 4.
Hope this helps,
Skip
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Hello skip,
I try to express myself in your language,because I am from Belgium,the FLEMISH part of it.So what I want to say is,first of all,that I like the way you show us to paint,
with your video lessons.I am still a beginner,working now with Corel Painter 12.
I am studying on your cardinal-bird picture,by following your explanation on the video.
So I needed your “cool spring brushes” to download.Now I have to ask you if it is possible, that not all the brushes are available?I had 50 of them(from edge 1 to very wet 10.But in video 1,I can see more brushes that you use to start with.For instance
“Runny nest RCW-2″,for starting to clone.The brushes that I miss are: from Fill 2-capt to Wet into Wet 5.That makes about 15 more brushes.
Let me thank you for your help into tutorials like yours,
with kind regards
from:Claude
Hello Claude,
Your English is very good. I wish I knew your native language and could reply using it. I looked at Google Translate and Dutch is there, but not Belgium Dutch. I wasn’t sure if Dutch would work for you.
Your question is a good one. When I was doing the demonstration of the Cardinal, I was using Cool Spring in their raw form. I had not completed making the set. When I completed the set, I used different names for the variants. The 15 variants you are missing are actually in Cool Spring or in Drips and Runs. Unfortunately, I do not remember what I named each variant. I do know that Wet into Wet 5 is in Drips and Runs and it is called Runny Paper 03. I think Fill 2-capt is also in Drips and Runs. I believe it is Runny Fill 03, but I am pretty sure I changed it some from original Fill 2-capt. Runny nest RCW-2 looks similar to Drips and Runs Drippy 01.
You are not the first person who has asked this question. Next time, I will not demonstrate with a set until it is finished, or at least write down what the new names are.
Thank you so much for visiting the blog. I hope you come back often. Please feel free to ask any questions you may have.
Happy Holidays,
Skip
Hello, I downloaded your Cool Spring brushes to follow the tutorial about watercolor clone, but I can’t load them in Painter XI.
I’ve got an error xml message.
Can you help me to fix the problem?
Thank you so much and greetings from Italy
Hello Lucius,
Cool Spring brushes are using a new feature that is in Painter 12. It isn’t backward compatible to Painter 11. I would take Cool Spring out of Painter 12; it will always cause an error message. If you decide to upgrade to Painter 12, then you can use them.
Thank you so much for visiting my blog. I wish I had better news for you.
Enjoy,
Skip
Hey Skip you’re a honey bunch thx so much for the cool spring brushes. Going o try them soonest. Lv Shelz
Hey Shelz,
Thanks for dropping by and making a comment. I hope Tim will have a class using the brushes soon. That will be terrific.
Hugs,
Skip