painterly effects

Painterly effects replace photographic detail with the marks of a physical medium: stipple dots, oil and gouache strokes, watercolour bleeds, stitched and woven textures, stained glass cells. kott's painterly family varies mark size, density and edge behaviour rather than tone curves, so the output reads as a made object instead of a processed photograph. Reach for this category for editorial illustration, packaging, book covers, or any brief where a photograph looks too literal. These effects need real tonal separation to work against, since a mark has to know where an edge is, and flat low-contrast sources leave them nothing to describe.