Paint a watercolor wash
Set up a wet brush and let colors bleed into each other.
Magerie's brush can behave like real wet paint: colors pool at the edges, pick up what is already on the canvas, and bleed together. Here is how to get a soft watercolor wash.
1. Make a canvas#
Open the Omni menu (Tab), add an Image node, and select it. That is your paper.
2. Set up a wet brush#
Press B twice for the brush picker and pick Watercolor. That is a wash already.
Want to tune it? Add a Brush node and pick the Watercolor category. Wetness up for more bleed, Edge and Bloom up for the dark pooled rim. Turn on its Export toggle (the share icon on its title) and it joins the picker; select it and paint.
3. Lay down the wash#
Pick a light color and paint a loose area. Switch to a second color and paint into the still-wet first one. Watch them bleed together at the seam. Build it up in thin passes rather than one heavy stroke.
4. Export#
Wire the Image node into an Image Exporter node and save a PNG.
Take it further#
- Softer underlayers: flip your Brush node to Advanced and raise Wet Blur to soften what is already on the canvas under each stroke.
- Paper texture: wire any image into the Brush node's Grain input so pigment catches on the tooth.
- Keep the brush: your Brush node stays in the picker for this document. Save it to your Files & Library to use it everywhere.