Painting Digitally

Issue with Photoshop CC
I have just noticed that Photoshop CC no longer replaces the brushes when a new paper is loaded: all the previously loaded brushes are still there (even if you select Replace All the Brushes) when you run the Change Paper To # # # action.
I will fix this, but in the meantime please delete the brush sets you no longer need and especially make sure you select the correct brush set for this paper (otherwise you will not get the correct interaction between the brush and the paper).
Robert

Here's another charcoal portrait ... again off a photo from the web.

I've painted over the charcoal drawing of the miner (previous post) in pastels ... here is the result.

I had to make a couple of adjustments (nose should be bent as in photo, and softened the hairline), but otherwise the pastel was just painted over the charcoal.

I haven't seen this done in traditional painting although there's no reason why not (after spraying the charcoal with fixative). Actually it's quite a good idea because charcoal is great for drawing and is easy to erase, smudge etc., without clogging up the tooth of the paper. So all of the adjustments and compositional changes could be made in charcoal, spray with fixative (digital equivalent of painting on a new layer) and then apply pastel.

Hi ... here are a couple of recent paintings. The pastel is of a tree beside the Boyne river at Slane Castle in Ireland (near my house). The watercolor is based (from memory) on a painting by the Irish artist Dayld Daly ... I really liked his three sheep (and also the loose approach to the grasses).