Affinity Photo - Mixed Brush Colours

[Mick Knight]

Hi Folks, This maybe a newbie question but having taken up the art of colouring old black & white pictures, I'm looking for an easy way to combine colours in a single brush or give me a multiple blend of variations of the same colour chosen. For instance, I'm really struggling when coloring bricks on buildings as I need variations of red in the brick work, when I choose a small splatter brush and try and do 2 passes with 2 different colours, it just doesnt look right. Is there any easy option by using some other form of custom brushes or technics, any help would be very much appreciated. TIA guys & gals 👍

[h_d]

If you edit a brush (double-click it in the Brushes panel) then you can apply a small amount of random Hue Jitter in the Dynamics tab:

 

If you then paint in a brick-like colour you'll get a randomised effect:

But you'll probably have to experiment a bit to get something you're happy with.

 

[Mick Knight]

Brilliant h_d, thanks for the help, much appreciated 👍

[walt.farrell]

But don't forget to do that with a copy of the brush, not the original. Changes made that way are permanent, and would have to be manually undone to get back to original settings for the brush.

[Mick Knight]

Thanks for the tip walt.farrell and exactly what I did as I've done stupid things in the past so its now become the norm to duplicate almost every I change 😄 👍