Corel Painter Help : Thick Paint
Some features described in the Help are available only in Corel Painter 2020, and are not included in Painter Essentials 7. For more information about Corel Painter 2020, visit http://www.painterartist.com/. To get started with Painter Essentials 7, see the Painter Essentials 7 Quick Start Guide.

Thick Paint

Thick Paint brushes offer a natural-media experience with the look and feel of thick paint and traditional impasto. They can help you paint beautiful images by adding depth, texture, or movement regardless of whether you are creating traditional art, photo art, or illustrations.

Thick Paint brushes create visible brush and knife marks in the painting. Artwork by Cher Pendarvis.

Thick Paint brushes apply paint that you can blend, build up, push, pull, and scrape. You can use these brushes to create dry and semi-transparent brushstrokes, reveal or hide paper texture, and blend brushstrokes naturally. In addition, you can displace and carve paint, creating indents in the brushstrokes.

Thick Paint brushes can be adjusted with the help of presets and special Thick Paint controls. You can use the pressure, the tilt, and even the rotation of your stylus to control and vary your brushstrokes with ease.

Thick Paint brushstrokes are applied on special layers. You can adjust the properties of these layers for a more or less pronounced thick-paint effect.

Brushstrokes applied with Thick Paint brushes reflect the light in a specific way. You can adjust the lighting and shadows in the brushstrokes to fine-tune brushstroke appearance and set the lighting of your image.

Thick Paint brushes create brushstrokes similar to Impasto brushstrokes but with a more realistic look and feel. For information about Impasto, see Impasto.

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