Rainwater's Sketchbook

[Rainwater]

So the secret to painterly feel is as nice brush using the mixer brush and how you lay the stroke?

I use a similar technique like Greg Rutkowski - I take a traditional painting from the old masters and use a mixer brush to absorb small parts of the image (just like the stamp tool). Then I paint with the absorbed colors. It feels more like real paint, not so sterile. but I use this technique sparsely, because painting with mixer brushes like this is very RAM-heavy. The rest are normal painting- and texture brushes.

Edit: Art basics and brush economy are more important than painting with special brushes. I try to learn the ala prima style from my fav artists like Richard Schmid. It sounds weird, but you need to learn to see more, than you think you are seeing. Just look at impressionist paintings with very colorful shadows, ground etc. Things we "think" look colorless. Also, learning about light and its infliuence on the surrounding is just as important.

I still need to work on my brush economy. I feel like my paintings look too clean and boring; like a muralist painting a wall with the same brush strokes.

Here are my newest studies: