Today’s post continues our exploration of how to combine together different paint presets and or image processing effects to build up different artistic effects, build with associated ‘paint strategies’.
The finished paint effect shown above was created with the paint action sequence shown below.
For this particular paint strategy we started by erasing to white. Because of the approach we will be taking to building up the finished painting, any lack of complete coverage in the first auto-paint step doesn’t matter. In fact, it might even be beneficial to the effect to have some of that white canvas area incorporated into the smeared painted backing. This is because we will first rough in the canvas with large loose paint strokes, and then use a water blend paint preset to smear and melt the initial roughed out canvas into a watercolor like backing that additional paint detail will then be overlaid on top of.
The 2nd gallery image below shows the result of the first auto paint action step that roughs in the canvas. I then used a modified variation of that particular paint preset to add a little additional detail prior to running a different paint preset that acts to smear the existing painted canvas with a wet watery smear effect. You could try moving these 2 action steps in the PASeq, so the smear action step was the second one to see the slight change this will create in the finished painting.
The rest of the auto paint action steps then add back some detailed painting on top of the smeared roughed in canvas to build up the final image. I used the Image Compressor ip op effect at the end to boost the overall image contrast a little in the final painting.
The PASeq preset used to create this effect is available 71311.paseq Note that the look and feel of the painting is very different than yesterday’s paint effect. And there are an infinite variety of different paint styles you can create, based on how you build your overall ‘paint strategy’. Which particular paint preset you use, how you edit them, in what order you use them, and how you combine them together with other processing effects.
We are really only using 2 different paint preset for this effect. We use slightly edited version of one of them to rough in the color and then add the detail, and a second water paint preset to do the smear melting effects.
You can always erase the canvas to white and then run a single individual action step if you want to get a better feel for what it is doing and how it contributes to the final look of the finished painting. You can run any individual action step by clicking on the red keyframe associated with that action step at frame time 1 in the PASeq timeline (or by selecting the action step and then running the Play Selected Action Step context menu command).
