A pretty decent writeup on using blender brushes in general, plus a brief look at some of the new palettes in Painter IX.5:

http://apps.corel.com/painterix/training/tutorial_blending_brushes.html?trkid=tpc0206tut1

Thanks so much for the link, Danny! Fay Sirkis has been quite explicit about her technique here, i learnt a lot!

Thank YOU Very Much :)