Creating s sketch of your subject allows for additional creativity and expression in your painting. A sketch in itself might become a finished work of art. Learn to sketch by hand. This video will inspire you to do so.
Below is the final painting.
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My Corel Painter 12 watercolor class is over. I have been studying with quite a wonderful and watercolor obsessed instructor who teaches at the Digital Art Academy – Skip Allen. He is passionate about watercolor and brush making. I thought it important for me to at least become familiar with this digital media – to understand it’s opportunities, challenges, and to understand the brush controls. I also wanted to work with some of the concepts of traditional watercolor as we attempt to translate this into a digital medium. The following video will discuss the 3 types of Painter watercolor brushes. I will show a few paintings I created. I will demonstrate how some of the brushes work – you will be so amazed to see them.
I bet you never heard the term “negative” painting before. I had not until today – in my online class with Skip Allen, my watercolor instructor at the Digital Art Academy. There was quite a bit of discussion about this term. First of all it is a watercolor term, and it refers to painting in the negative space, the space which surrounds the focal point of your painting, to give the subject of your depth and luminosity. That as opposed to doing substantial positive painting on the subject of the painting itself. Am I being clear? Hopefully looking at my finished image helps. In case you are interested, Skip gave us references of a couple of watercolor painters who do “negative” watercolor painting,
Well, I am making progress – I hope you think so after what I showed you yesterday. That was playtime – this is more serious.
I started with this photograph. I think I was in – I am not sure really. I will do better with that next time. Anyway… the photo from which I painted…
I then took in into Corel Painter. This is how I set up my workspace. I am surrounded by many tools, brushes even images when I paint.
Thus is a screenshot I took while I painted. It shows the canvas I am painting on, to the right of that, there is a selection of paper textures I can bring into my painting to simulate watercolor paper or many other textures I might want to include. Next, my color wheel and to the right of that many short cuts for actions I might take during the course of my painting. On the bottom row you see another, what we call “custom pallet”. It is a way of keeping some of my favorite tools, commands and brushes close at hand. Next you see a blue toned water color image by traditional water colorist David Taylor. I wanted to keep it close at hand to reference his style and just for inspiration. Beyond that – more tools. Beyond that a mixer pad. I can mix colors on the mixing pad, just as any artist would use a mixing pad. In addition, new to Painter 12.1 I can bring in an image to my mixer pad to use in my selection of colors. In this instance, you can see a small version of my reference image. it served two purposes. One, I could select my colors from it as I painted, and two, it also served as my visual reference for the painting.
This is my final image – at least for today. I enjoyed painting it.
This process started when Karen Bonaker, instructor at the Digital Art Academy, mentioned that one of my paintings reminded her of Klimt with all of the gold on it. I thought I should go further and created this piece. The video allows me to share my creative process.
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I like it. It’s fun. Actually I was inspired by some of the concept artist – illustrators who design for games and other animation. This was my twist on it.
Can you believe even that the necklace was painted. No photo here. I have great brushes which do not come with Corel Painter – which allow me to create a painting like this – brushes created by David Gell
I never fully envisioned this. I just start with the sketchiest of an idea and keep putting one foot in front of the other following my inner guide. If I had known what I was doing from the beginning, it would not take so long.
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Maintain frequently used images in your custom image portfolio in Corel Painter to have them close at hand when you need them. Use them as backgrounds, overlays, image details. or just a starting point for your painting. This Video will show you how.
