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I tried to digitally paint the winter leaves of trees simulating the traditional water color painting technique of splitting the brush hairs until they fan. I found Corel Painter 's default Watercolor brush variants can produce this effect quite easily. First, use the Watercolor Dry Camel brush variant to paint the tree trunks as shown below.  Then choose the Watercolor Dry Bristle brush variant. Lightly paint the foliage with short soft strokes. The results are shown below.

I'm trying to use Corel Painter's watercolor brush variants to produce a wet-into-wet look. In traditional watercolor painting, this technique is useful for misty backgrounds and trees. I tried using the Smooth Runny Camel 30 brush variant with the default Water settings, but I did not like the look of the result. It was too runny. See the tree image of the results below.  I opened up the Water Brush Controls palette and reduced the Diffuse Amount to about 57% . I like the results with the reduced diffuse amount better as shown below.  While the paint is still wet, I applied a second, darker color to add shading to the tree.