6 In 1 Paint Tool Uses

[Cora Devries]

Threedecades ago, when I was breaking into the home improvement world on the painting side of the business, I was bombarded with what seemed like an endless amount of new terminology from all angles on a daily basis.

To help guide a piece of wood into place against another piece of wood

To open an unlocked window from the outside

As a shim temporarily leveling a ladder (not recommended!)

To hammer in a nail (with its butt end)

To open boxes

As a flat head screwdriver

As a pry bar (to take old shutters that have been nailed on) off a home

As something to aid in holding a door open and not locking behind me

To aid in cutting a piece of string (or something along those lines)

To help in removing wallpaper

When breaking into the painting trade, or even taking on a painting project around your home, the list of terminology related to what you are doing absolutely can be a bit over inundating, this being said, due to its unending diversity, the 5-in-1 is one of those tools that above almost any other can be about as valuable as one can learn about and utilize!

Yes! the old credit cards/plastic cards fall into my miscellaneous category for sure! Their effect is very similar to the paint scrapers. I also like to cut notches into credit cards to make striations. Hope you enjoy trying out the spatulas! I think you'll dig em, if you're already experimenting with random tools like credit cards. Thanks for the comment!

I used to use trowels from home depot. Harbor freight has cheap ones in various sizes. Those don't flex as well as a palette knife, but they're nice and big. I also played with a painters edge with the big plastic handle for painting straight lines instead of a mahl stick.

Reminds me of the class I took with you on mark making. Love it! Love the dollar store for all the cheap mark making tools. My little ones toy box renders some nice mark making tools. Plastic animals with interesting paw shapes make great stamps and her paint box has some foam rollers with shapes that are fun but those would be the more traditional category since they came in her painting kit. I'm interested in working on some of the slicker surfaces like acetate and yupo paper too. I can stare at the marks you make on your painting all day. I have the mermaid you painted by my bedside so I can admire all the marks before I drop off to sleep each night.

hi Dave. There are a few different ways to get the slick surface. The store-bought pre-gessoed masonite comes pretty slick already, so it's a done deal out of the package. If you buy and cut your own masonite, you can gesso it (if you want it to be white), and then coat it with polymer. There are several different types of polymers. Here are some examples of polymers that work: Golden's Gloss Medium, Golden's GAC, liquitex's Gloss Medium & Varnish. All work fine for creating this surface. You can apply it to any kind of surface, not just masonite, and not just gessoed masonite, not just a white surface. As long as what's underneath is not oil based already. I also apply the polymer to illustration board, or sturdy matte board, but even bristol board or thinner boards/surfaces/papers work. The gloss mediums give more of a slick surface. Hope this helps! ?

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Great post! I always love experimenting with new art tools. All the pieces are so amazing, I love how rendered everything is against the background. With all the different art tools how do you keep your work area organized? I have been struggling to get back to oil painting because of mess I always have on the table.

I'm really liking the "fuzzy skin" feature, but I'm finding the "Outside walls or All walls" selection is not flexible enough, i.e., there may be portions of a contiguous surface I want to make fuzzy, but not others. I'm thinking a paint tool that lets me specify what surfaces or portions thereof I want the fuzz effect on would be helpful. Is this doable? I don't see a github topic for this.

Thinking about how this might be implemented, "painting", given it's inherent imprecise nature, might not be the way to go. Better, perhaps, would be to implement it as an "Add Modifier" or "Add Part" feature which you could shape and place more precisely and assign the fuzzy attribute to it. I can see this opening up all kinds of possibilities such as uploading a logo/branding file to have it appear as a fuzzy "patch" on an otherwise smooth wall. In that respect, it would also be nice to have the fuzzy attribute available as a top layer fill pattern, with specifiable thickness and point offset as currently available. Maybe this is already available by this method (just thinking out loud here), I'll experiment a little.

I ended up creating a solid CAD model in the area where I wanted fuzzy skin. The trick is...I made it only one nozzle-width thick, so it manipulates the slicer only to make that single skin thickness fuzzy. This could get somewhat involved if making something complex, but I was able to extract the surface I needed and then just offset it to create a solid version. Then in the slicer, load that geometry as a modifier and set the fuzzy skin to be "outside walls". OR you can load the part and the modifier geometry as 'parts', but you'll need then change that geometry from a part to a modifier, otherwise the slicer will try to print it.

Do I only get to paint on the same layer as drawing layer? Then what would be the point of separating layers into 4 different types as O,L,C.U?

Or if I ever want to paint on the C layer, using brush tool and painting page by page would be the only option ?

I would like to know what to do to get my line art to be filled inside with the Live Paint tool in Illustrator. I have created some artwork from a sketch that I did on a sketchpad which I later uploaded and edited on my iPad. They are all separate objects. But since the version of Illustrator on iPad does not currently have a Live Paint feature, I have to use it on my PC.

The problem is that Live Paint is just changing the color of my stroke (what is supposed to be a stroke), and is not painting inside of my shapes. How do I get the line art to be treated by Illustrator as strokes and the inside of my shapes as fills so that I can use the Live Paint tool?

Please let me know, and if you have an idea about how to color inside line art in Illustrator on the iPad, let me know this, too!

Thanks so much!

Yes, that's right, these are not considered as strokes but as fills. I uploaded this sketch to the iPad Pro. It is the first time that I had been using it for this, so I am not sure if I had done it right. Perhaps Illustrator on the computer will be better for this kind of thing? Would it make the outlines be strokes or also make them fills as well? Basically all I would like to do is color the inside of the shapes, but right now there is no "fill" for the inside, just the outlines. Please let me know how to do this.

Can you send an AI file so we can check it out? you need to create live paint double click on the live paint bucket to indicate that you are colrizing the fill. This look like you have no fill and thedark lines are actually the fill.

Yes, the outlines are considered as fills not strokes. What I basically want, and I had also asked this of Ton Frederiks, is just to color the inside of them. Right now the inside is a transparent part of the overall shape. I want to keep the outlines as they are, and just be able to color the inside of the shapes, however there is no way right now to do this via the live paint tool.

Yes. I was wondering if I was able to make these outlines to be strokes instead of fills, and be able to color the inside of the shapes. But the insides right now are transparent and really don't exist to be able to be filled with the live paint tool. Perhaps you know how to keep the outlines as they are and be able to color the inside areas themselves. I need to be able to choose different colors for things like the flower petals (for example, two types of pink). Do you know how to do this?

It doesn't matter that the inside shapes are "transparent", by which I assume that you mean they are empty with no fill. As long as the areas appear to be closed shapes the Live Paint tool can fill them.

I am having a bit of a different result using live paint. I did not use image tracing for myself, so perhaps that is the reason? For me, it still colors the outlines, and then I was able to color the fill area by clicking inside the shapes, but now it is using different shades of grey instead of the colors that I chose. Is there a setting or something that I need to change in order to use the colors?

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