Painting eraser tool

A kneaded eraser is something like a very sturdy gum that you can shape anyway you like to erase even the smallest of details. One of the best advantages of this eraser is that it leaves no erasing crumbs. How amazing is that? I use both. I buy paper pads or big sheets of watercolor paper and I cut it in sizes I want. Making an art journal with these paper pads is another idea, to have them at one place.

The more wet media you want to use, the thicker paper you need. You can choose from mixed media paper, watercolor paper, sketching paper, craft paper, and so many others. A palette knife is used to mix paint on the palette, whereas a painting knife is used for applying acrylic paint on paper or canvas. This way, you create texture and can add interesting details like lines, or small chunks of color. I have a set of painting knives that I mostly use for applying acrylic paint, texture paste or using them as art tools for mixing my paint as well.

Before you run off and buy a specific painting palette , let me say that you can use anything to serve as your palette. Also, count in the space for mixing colors. This tape is not meant to stick forever when you glue it down.

You can use it to protect isolate a certain area on your painting paper. This way, create frames around your painting which look amazing, especially in art journals. Masking tape works great with watercolor when you frame your painting with it.

This just looks stunning. Also, you can use masking tape as a great art tool to isolate some areas, for example, for journaling. First, put some masking tape on the paper, paint around it, and when the paint is dry, take it off. You can buy painting sponges already fixed on some kind of a handle for easier use.

But I love using kitchen sponges for applying acrylic paint. I mostly use it for dabbing acrylic paint onto the paper, but a neat idea is to cut the sponge in certain shapes and use them as stamps. We all love stencils. They are versatile, come in a gazillion designs and help us add something special to our art. You can use them with acrylic paint, watercolor, inks, texture paste, pens, embossing ink, and so on. If you want to buy a few stencils, perhaps think about getting more general ones like abstract shapes, letters, or flowers.

Why not have even more fun and make your own stencils? Areas completely erased will have the original RGB color information replaced with black hexadecimal code Areas undergoing partial erasure will retain the original color information and have a lower opacity value applied.

Erasing may result in a checkerboard pattern being shown. This pattern is used to denote areas of the image that are transparent - the pattern is not actually part of the image and will not be seen outside of paint. The Brush Width determines how wide the circular tip of the Eraser will be. Note that the tip of the Eraser will always be circular - it is not possible to alter this. Eraser Tool showing three brush widths.

At the top the Brush Width is set to five pixels wide. In the middle the Brush Width is 20 pixels. At the bottom the Brush Width is 65 pixels.

Hardness indicates how hard or soft the erased edges are. Use Symmetry to duplicate your strokes based on geometric constraints. Enable Symmetry by clicking the Symmetry button in the Contextual Toolbar. Symmetry is only available when using the Paint tool or Eraser tool.

Lazy Mouse lets you paint smoother, more precise strokes. Lazy Mouse offsets the distance between the cursor and the brush stroke so that the stroke drags behind the cursor instead of being attached to it.

Materials are composed of multiple channels where each channel represents specific surface properties. In Painter, you can paint data across multiple channels. Enable and disable channels in the Properties panel, click a channel button to toggle it on or off. When disabled, channel parameters cannot be changed and the channel is not modified by the painting process. The Material mode button is an easy way to load a material and quickly set multiple channels.

The Alpha determines the shape of the brush tip. Painter includes hundreds of alphas by default. Many Alphas have parameters that you can adjust to create variations. The Stencil is a grayscale mask for the brush stroke. The stencil is attached to the viewport and acts just like stencils do in the physical world. Brush strokes through a stencil will only be applied where the stencil isn't black. More information on how to use the Stencil is available here.

Projection works like the Stencil and shares similar controls.