Corel® Painter™ IX includes two oil brush categories: Oils and Artists' Oils. Depending on the nature of your project, you may find one or the other brush category more useful. For realistic interaction with the Mixer palette, and to apply multiple colors in a single brush stroke, try using Artists' Oil brush variants.

Oils
The Oil brush variants in Corel Painter let you create effects you'd expect from oil paints. Some variants are semitransparent and can be used to produce a glazed effect. Other variants are opaque and cover underlying brush strokes.

Fine Camel 20	Glazing Round 30
Smeary Round	Thick Oil Bristle 20
Thick Oil Flat 20	Thick Wet Oils 30

Artists' Oils
The Artists' Oils Painting System has four components:

• Artists' Oils brush category and variants
• Artists' Colors that are based on the color measurements of real-world oil paints
• Integration of Artists' Oils with the Mixer palette, including a new multicolor eyedropper
• Artists' Oil brush controls that provide the ability to control the amount of oil, viscosity, blend, bristling, clumpiness, brush trails, and dirtiness.

The Artists' Oils Painting System is a milestone in the evolution of digital art. This new painting system enables you to apply paint blends created in the Mixer palette directly onto the image.

Each brush dab loads the brush with a finite amount of oil. As the oil runs out, the brush trail becomes fainter.

Brush strokes interact with any paint already on the canvas just as they would with natural media.

Whether you choose Oils or Artists' Oils, the colors and brushes in Corel Painter are designed to give you the most natural artistic experience in digital painting.