Al Fresco Art Club, Dec 6, 2020 -- Paint on One Layer with One Brush

My rendition of Hiroshige’s Suido Bridge and the Surugadai Quarter, (1857)

Today’s challenge was tough. We were to paint digitally in a way that emulates traditional painting: use one layer and one brush. Though traditional painters often use more that one brush, we were restricted to use our ingenuity with one brush only. Ctrl-z was forbidden, as was the color picker.

I used a simple flat opacity brush, and the color palette was all my own. The perspective of the carp, however, is Hiroshige’s — he was going for effect rather than correctness.