Lesson 5
I too liked the brush used by Carole, but I added a faint butterfly brush on the outside. Being busy with brushes I used a corner brush as well. I couldn't find a way to get the brush rotate by 90 degrees, I think there must be a way to do that. Of course I have duplicated the brush layer and rotated it by 90 degrees to get what I wanted. Because my flower is round I put the text in a circle and I have to admit I had to check the vector workshop on how to do it. It need more practice to remember all this new things, on the positive side at least I know were to find it.
Day 5 using Affinity I used the same brush as Carole as I liked the affect it gave, the font I used is back to Vintage. The photo is of two juvenilles with the red patches on the top of the head and that's mum at the feeder, my son took the photo just the other day, he has had woodpeckers visiting that same tree for the past 11 years. When he sent me the photo he wrote
Mrs Woodpecker sighed wearily as she pecked up her order at the McPeanuts Fly-Thru, that second egg had definitely been a mistake...
This abstract turned into some kind of cervid in my mind, so I made a deer-shaped brush to go with it for the exercise in Lesson 5. While I did use a mask to cover some of the main image, I didn't feather its edges because I wanted to maintain the strong, side-to-side movement of my "herd." Then I finished it with a layer of animals using the brush with a solid colour.