

Kyle has a lot of Regular brushes and Smudge brushes. I spent a long time trying to find a few I thought would be useful to get everyone started with painting. Webster are provided for free when you subscribe to Adobe’s program. A huge amount of brushes were created by Kyle T. The brushes used on the above Kingfisher image were from Fay Sirkis, a Corel Painter Master, who created some great PS Mixer brushes years ago (some of them can still be downloaded from KelbyOne) – not much was available back then but these hers are still great! Lots of brushes now come with PS so it is easy to get started trying a little painting of your favorite images. But there are many Smudge brushes and Pattern Stamp brushes also available for painting, so don’t discount their usefulness.

The Regular brushes and the Mixer brushes are the ones most people think of using for digital painting in PS. Since Photoshop’s brush engine has not really changed much since CS6 – and the Mixer showed up in CS5, there have been lots and lots of brushes available thru the years. The beautiful Common Kingfisher image above was downloaded from Unsplash and was taken by Boris Smokrovic (there are many iterations of the bird on this site). I am still getting caught up on my digital art skills which was one of my New Year’s resolutions. I am continuing with another painting blog just because that is what I am doing right now.
