From left to right, top to bottom;

1. Suminagashi variant.

2. Suminagashi a variant.

3. Suminagashi b variant.

4. Suminagashi Grad variant in combination with Painter IX's Aquatic Neon gradient.

5. Suminagashi Grad a variant in combination with Painter IX's Vivid Colored Stripes gradient.

6. Suminagashi Grad b variant in combination with Painter IX's Red Streak gradient.

Above;

1. Floranagashi variant.

2. Grainagashi variant in combination with Painter IX's French Watercolor Paper.

3. Grainagashi a variant, again in combination with Painter IX's French Watercolor Paper.

The Suminagashi Dragons;

Left: Fuku Riu (the Good Luck Dragon).

Right: Sui Riu (the Rain Dragon).

Above;

The Life Form variants.

Other Tips and Known Issues.

1. All variants in the 1 Suminagashi brush category utilise the Drip method, and as such, will only paint on the canvas or over existing paint applied to a default layer (or one previously filled with say white for example).

2. An accompanying brush category (Distortonagashi) has also been included in this library, containing variants which will yield distortion and smearing effects to the pixels laid down by the Drip method variants. I'll leave you to explore their possibilities.

3. The Grainagashi and Grainagashi a variants may yield hard white artefacts on white canvas, when used in conjunction with high contrast paper. Reduce the Paper Contrast value in the Papers palette until the inclusions disappear.

4. I have discovered a brush bug associated with the Fuku Riu, Life Form and Life Form Mono variants (Rake stroke types). If I first use say one of the Hokusai variants from the Distortonagashi category, then switch back to any one of the three variants mentioned above, the Fuku Riu stroke appears more closed and simplified, whilst the Life Form strokes have a more blurred, washed out appearance.

To remedy the above issues, immediately prior to using these three, first select say the Grainagashi or Sui Riu variants, touch the canvas once via. the graphics tablet stylus (use undo once if you have marked the canvas in this operation), then select Fuku Riu or a Life Form variant to begin painting. I have made a set of scripts to do this automatically via a custom palette.

5. In the case of the Life Form variants, use slow strokes to produce a more closed tubular form, and faster strokes to give a more open 'backbone' effect. The strokes produced seem quite random with these latter variants, so there may be quite a bit of undo and redo on a per stroke basis to produce the desired results. The term 'brushes with a life of their own' comes to mind when using these.

The above is a follow up image based on a tip from Jinny Brown.

The idea is to significantly increase the brush size of the Suminagashi Grad, Suminagashi Grad a and Grad b variants to paint some fabulous skies.

In the above example, the Suminagashi Grad b variant was set to a brush size of 235 pixels. The Summer Sunset gradient was then selected from Painter IX's default gradients library, after initially using a Two-Point gradient in the lower section of the image.