Painting in Photoshop

This series of paintings started off with a tutorial. I learned how to make brushes according to the texture I was aiming for. I also found that it was helpful to work in layers. Once my brush was made, I used this paint palate below to experiment with mixing dry brushes with wet brushes as well as  heavy mix with light mix. I also had to adjust the load, blend, and opacity percentages. With certain brush tips, the path would get wider the longer it was used (as you can see in the palate below). Cleaning the brush, in Photoshop, basically means that you sharpen the tip of the brush. In my landscape, I used a mixer brush to create the variety of shades in the grass, trees, and sky. It was cool to see a digital piece of work look almost hand made, and I would love to learn and get better at creating brushes and brush presets for certain situations.