Watercolor Brush Size Problem

[FishMaze]

I just purchased Painter 8 and I ran into an interesting problem that
someone here may be able to help me with.

Suppose I create a very small canvas, say 200 x 200. I then use the Wet
Bristle brush to make a stroke. I like the watery effect the finished stroke
makes.

Now if I instead use a 2000 x 2000 pixel canvas and increase the size of the
brush ten times to give me the same relative size of the finished stroke, I
now am faced with hundreds of bristles instead of just three and the watery
parimeter of the stroke is not recognizable as in the smaller canvas.

I just want to increase the size of the brush by ten fold and increase the
relative dimensions of the three individual bristles so that the finished
stroke looks exactly the same no matter how large the canvas I use.

I went to the Stroke Designer tab of the brush builder but I am unable to
select the Bristle tab.

So, how can I achieve increasing the size of a watercolor brush without
adding hundreds of new bristles?

Another way of looking at it is that I want the 2000 x 2000 canvas to act
like a 200 x 200 canvas.

Any help will be appreciated.

FM

[Michael Clarke]

On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 10:59:25 -0500, "FishMaze" <fish...@anet-chi.com>
wrote:

>Another way of looking at it is that I want the 2000 x 2000 canvas to act
>like a 200 x 200 canvas.

I suppose you've tried painting your thing at 200x200 (use the
magnifying glass to see what's happening) and then resizing the canvas
to 2000x2000?

You might also be able to make a pattern of the 200x200 image and use
a clone brush to paint it in at 10x scale.

Mik