I'm back

[abby-helen]

Happy New Year to all.

2020 was a harsh speedbump for me. I spent time in 3 different hospitals, all because my sciatic nerve misbehaved.
On my road to recovery I had to use a wheel-chair for over a month. Now I'm mobile with the help of a cane.

During my convalescence, I felt so fortunate to have digital art to play with.

I finally said my goodbye to Corel Painter. I got tired of their continuous crashes. Now I work with ArtRage and only AR.

The beauty of this program is enormous.

Abby-Helen

[markw]

Hello Abby-Helen and welcome back!
Sounds like you have had even more reasons to be happy at seeing the back of 2020 and saying “good riddance” to it!
Yes, breath deep and let ArtRage sooth and calm you…

[abby-helen]

Thank you Mark for that warm welcome.
Sometimes the harsh lessons are the best ones.

I have a AR question. Up to now I've been working with the oil brush.
I like it fine but wanted to try something different. I'm trying the
watercolor brush, its a whole different animal.

How can I make the colors "run?" There must be a procedure
that I have not found.

Thank you for looking into this

Abby-Helen

[markw]

Are you referring to the slight “runs” at the bottom of the background in my Sun Bear painting
They’er easy to do with the Warp tool in AR6. I just dragged the paint around using the Easy Smear preset mostly.
If you’ve not found the Warp tool in AR6, it’s hidden under ‘Filters’ in AR’s Menu; Edit > Filters > Warp…
And it’s key command is Shift+W to activate it or did I set that If that isn’t it’s default key, it can be easily set to whatever you want in AR’s ‘Keyboard Shortcuts’ panel. This time the Warp tool is hidden under ‘Panel Commands’, go figure!
Hope that was helpful

[abby-helen]

Yes Mark, that is exactly what I mean. I too want to use it for a back ground.

I love your bear and I took a screen shot of it to remind me of your fine detailed
and lovely atmospheric background.

I'll play with the "warp" and add the palette knife, hopefully to get the
"look" I want.
Thanks again,

Abby-Helen

[abby-helen]

Mark, I was working in trying a new method in water color , warp and knife tools-
I get the message from AR= "An error occurred on attempting to create an object.
AR could not create the requested menu, you may need to restart the application."

So I did that but what does it mean?

The next message= "AR quit unexspectedly " It's the 1st. time AR has crashed
on me. What did I do wrong?

Thanks for looking into this.

Abby-Helen

[Stephen Lo Piano]

How goes abby-helen. Good to see writing that you seem to be recovering. I know how health issues can take a toll on your life, had personal health problems myself for a couple years leading into 2020. During my recovery phase time periods when they let me out of the hospital for a while I found digital painting to be a psychological positive thing in dealing with my problems and passing the time while still in discomfort and pain, giving me a sense of being able to do something worth while.