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Painting Forum Worshop Exercise
Complete the painting -----
A larger size is at the bottom and you can download the 1024x768 zip here to work with.
If you would prefer to start your own, my settings are below.

Canvas 1024x768 Paintbrush about size 200 transparency 65 softedge 100 divide your canvas into approximately 1/3 top 169 234 255 middle 78 65 20 bottom 42 92 119 Increase transparency to 85 and paint a thin layer under middle section color 112 71 19
charcoal brush fill the top half of the middle section size 25 wide 40 high using an up and down motion make a treeline on the middle sectionof the canvas and then moving right to left paint a hillside color 112 71 19 sliders 2 2 20 transparency 55 change color to 182 114 31 sliders to 2 31 11 transparency to about 30 fill in the bottom half of the middle section Charcoal brush 5 w 40 high color 84 52 14 sliders 2 31 60 transparency 23 fill in back hillside
bristle smear size 75 level 35 dry smear push up about 1/2 inch from tree base into treeline and then smear hillside below treeline paint water drop transparency 90 softedge 60 blend hillside
Charcoal gritty size 11 wide 10 high color 135 101 44 sliders 0 11 13 weight 52 distribution 78 running from side to side following the contour of your hillside make a brown grassy area remove noise brush size 20 level 40 softedge 0 blend again following the contour of the hillside
Using the grass stamps we made a few lessons back and changing the color with the quick color tuners, fill in where you would like (see bottom picture)
Making the willow tree new canvas 400x400 base 20 branches 7 then 3 leaves particle leaf 2w 11 high color 180 100 5 sliders 2 2 18 transparency 35 angle 160 do the left half of the tree angle 207 right side of tree This can be refined, it is only a start

I also made another tree and duplicated, using the distort to reshape and moved the duplicate to the back of the hillside.

Now I would love to see all the different variations of completing this picture along with a description of the tools used .

Questions? Suggestions?
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