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Study Guide 06
Chapter 2, Painter 5 F/X, Pages 67 - 92
Brush Strokes

Moving Brush Variants

What is it? When you change the settings for a brush, you have created a variant. If you have made a lot of changes, and like what you have, you should save the new brush. After you save it, you can copy it to a different category. Then you can delete it from the original category.

1. On the Brushes Palette, choose Pens, Leaky Pen, Cover, Soft Cover.
2. On the Brushes Palette menu, choose Control > Size. Choose the top center brush tip.
3. Change the size settings to 3, 1.4. 11%.
4. On the Brushes Palette menu, choose Control > Spacing.
5. Change the Spacing settings to 9%, .1, Single.
6. On the Art Materials palette, (click the Grow icon, if necessary) set Color Variability to 8%, 7% and 7%.
7. On the Controls: Brush palette, set opacity to 14%
8. Try the new brush on a canvas.
9. Click Brush palette > Variant > Save Variant. Call it Soft Fuzz.
10. Click Brush palette > Variant > Copy Variant. Place it in the Felt Pens category.
11. Go back to the Pens category. Select the Soft Fuzz brush. Click Variant > Delete.

Paint a bowl of fruit, using your new brush.
1. Create a new canvas, 5" x 5".
2. Choose a salmon-coral red.
3. Press Ctrl-F to fill the canvas with the color.
4. Choose Blue, sketch the bowl.
5. Choose Yellow, sketch a banana. Paint in green, yellow and brown.
6. Add an apple, pear and grapes.
7. Post your results to the list.

Input-Variable Exercises

Do the textbook exercises through the next twelve pages (through page 84).
What happens when you change the slider values for size and color?
What accounts for the differences in color in the Piano Keys strokes?
What is the Dab type for the Piano Keys stroke?

Work through the chapter to page 92.
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