With this texture brush (that I made), was able to make it look a little oil painterly, which is kind of a good starting point for me because when I was younger (speaking as though I'm a senior citizen, but) I LOVED painting in gouache and oil paints, particularly landscapes from my home country. I was thinking about what Kekai Kotaki said in class, which was that he uses one brush because he knows the capability of that brush. It's kind of a safety blanket, if you will, as you can get LOST with thousands of brushes and effects and all the capabilities of photo montage, etc in Photoshop.
On top of that, I was reading in James Gurney's book, "Colour and Light" (a MUST for everyone interested in light, colour, painting, etc) that painters before our time had a really limited palette. If they could create such life-like colours with so few pigments, do we really need all these brushes? Why not just master a few tools instead of being just okay in many? I think that the hard edged rounded brush (that I either got from Steve Jung or Jamie Jones; I was drawing a turkey in my professor's Storyboarding class so he realized I loved painting more than Storyboarding, and as a parting gift at the end of his class he gave me Jamie's brushes) and the texture brush I made recently are my two most used at the moment. I would LOVE to see someone do an entire painting with a leaf brush! Making it look like other things..metal, cloth, wood, etc...that would be interesting...
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