Photo of this had the colors changing too much. This version I tinkered with f stop and white level to get it closer, but still a little off. I’m not sure l like how well defined the tree is versus the more abstract-ness of the sky and ground. This is using acrylic for the black and white, and watercolor from a tube for the green. I’m thinking I need a finer bristle brush. Comments or recommendations are appreciated.
I’m not OP but for the looks op seems to like bold brushmarks, so I’d recommend a large bristle brush? You can do it all except very fine details with them. IMO!
One caveat (I’m still figuring this out) is that if you drench your bristle brush in water to clean it (like regularly when you paint, not once a day) it wrecks havoc with the bristles.
Yeah, totally - if it’s actual hair like “hog hair” etc, it can pretty much get “split ends” like human hair does. You can spend a lot on artist brush cleaners/conditioners if you want them to last ages (and you can often rescue a splayed brush with the same stuff) - or you can try and wipe them with a wet cloth instead of dunking them underwater - it depends what sort of paint and how much it’s dried on. Also, some people recommend you dry them sideways, or hanging downwards, rather than “bristle upwards”, to avoid the water/gunk collecting under the ferrule, which can also splay or even rot the base of the bristles.
At the moment I’m trying to gently rince it in a sort of dilutant (w&n dillutant/thinner for WMO) without wetting the ferule and czrefully dry on absorant paper, it seems better but I also had an enormous glass jar of water so maybe I was not using water the right way…