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    mountains using Bob Ross’ palette knife technique

    Any advice on translating certain palette knife techniques into AR?

    Applying, spreading, smearing translate readily, but when Bobs applies highlights, he uses a physical reality which exists on real canvas but not in AR: high and low spots on the paint to “catch” paint from the lightly-dragged knife.

    Clearly I need a brush with a texture or thinner or loading I can vary; so far results are very, “meh.”

    Maybe I need to completely forget about the tools Bob Ross uses, and embrace other techniques for applying color in the way he does it..

    thank you for any tips on this!

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    Using rough canvas texture and chalk will produce something like this. I used a plain canvas for the mountain layer and the layer above has the textured canvas.

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    I used a wet on wet with the android app and it works well enough for me I find the main trick is using a two pass approach first set the rough peaks then use the edge to pull it down high light with white using pencil if needed I used full pressure and no load on the second pass some times I even follow with wet to soften I posted an image in my feedback thread

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