After exploring and building brushes we learned how to turn a photograph into a painting by using cloner brushes. The first painting we did used the photograph provided in the lesson. I used the Wet Oils Cloner brush for most of the painting. I also used an IX WOW brush on the tree leaves, then tried Impasto for a cloud effect. After doing the cloning I used Blender brushes in some areas and also did some additional painting on the boat and painted in some birds. Had I painted the clouds with the Impasto brush on a separate layer I would have deleted it. I didn't know how to delete that from the painting once I'd gone beyond the maximum number of "un-do" strokes.

Next we painted a cloned painting using a photograph of our own. I decided to use one of my choclate Lab, Choctaw, after Nightshadow suggested it. I started by using the Wet Oils Cloner brush and then used other Oils brushes using the Clone Color button. I then used a number of different Blender brushes on him. Since the background in the photo was too busy and dark, I then painted around Choctaw using blue, green, yellow and red which I then blended using Just Add Water. As a final step I after saving the painting in JPG format I used the Oils Fine Feathering Oils 20 brush on some areas of his coat.

Below is a reduced size of the original photograph of Choctaw taken on a snowy day in January. He was not quite three at the time. (I also removed his electronic fence collar unit from the original prior to working on the cloning.)

I definitely needed to go through all of this information again, and still need to work on more of it, especially the information on Brush Libraries. For one thing, the JPG I created for my library shows up with the Painter brushes and the few brushes are there. While I looked through all of the Painter Brush folders as well as some others, I still cannot find the location of that library. (If I did I'd probably delete it.)

I really enjoyed learning about the Brush Creator and spent far too much time playing with it. I also enjoyed learning how to work with the Cloners. That also will take a bit of practice.

Thank you, Karen, for putting so much detail in this lesson. While it took quite a bit of time to go through it all, I'm glad to have it as another reference source.