Category Archives: Winifred Whitfield Workshops and Training

Watercolor Spring Particles – Painter 2016

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Spring RWC 2 C0lThese painting examples were created with Painter 2016 Watercolor Spring Particle brush dab type using Real Wet Buildup  Sub Category. Pause diffusion was enabled and never released. If you release it, you get a different look. The link for the brush is below.

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With Color Expression expressed as “pressure”, it is very important to set rather high color jitter and smoothing levels. This is what gives you the color variation and texture. Without this the colors blend and might appear very dull.

The brush is not so easy to control, but you can gain some mastery with familiarization and with practice. Give yourself extra canvas space to crop just the best part of your painting. Experiment with the Watercolor controls, the Particles Common Controls and the Spring Particles Controls to vary the brush looks. If you get a brush look you like, save the variant immediately. If you don’t save it then you will likely never see that look again – ever!!

These brushes are very sensitive to brush calibration and every other brush control slider which affects them, with each nuance movement giving you something different.

 

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RENOIR Inspired Part 2 is Now Available at Digital Art Academy

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Renoir Part 2 became available July 10th at Digital Art Academy.  You may register for this course, download the instructional resources and work at your pace. Below is the course content preview.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZoz4LDt760

During Renoir Part 2, we will add a different style of brush work.  Our new brush category is “Renoir Bristles”, brushes which create a more transparent,  sometimes scratchy, expressive brush stroke. If you choose, you might add brush work from your Impressionist dabs category as well. There are tutorials which support you in more complex paintings using the Ultimate Impressionist Brush Category. It’s Summer and this means having fun and as always painting your way! 

Renoir Part 1 is also available.

 

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Winifred Makes Portraits Paintings Sizzle

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It is no secret that I love to paint and I am also considered a versatile painter.  I can create paintings in a variety of painting styles.  Some of  these images you will love, some you may not.  That is fine –  the idea is to create and personal paintings which you, your family or your clients will love in your personal style.

In several of my online galleries, you will see some beautiful but pretty traditional painting styles.  I have created this post to show you some ways I have ‘ramped’ it up a bit, including one painting from imagination and a couple of portrait paintings with patterns at the very bottom.  I can hardly believe how many “hats” I have painted.  I love to paint women in hats.  Even my painting from imagination included a hat. Alas, you might have guessed, I wear a sun hat everyday of the Summer if I am in the sun.

If you would like to increase your painting skills or if you are just starting as a beginner  one of my personalized training workshops, “Almost One to One” might be just what you are looking for. Please visit my Store to preview my Tutorials and take a look at my Personalized Training Workshops.

I hope you enjoy the images which follow.  Thank you.  Winifred Whitfield

Personalized Online Training – Almost One to One

Lady on a Pillow

Mysterious Lady with Veil

Friends

Lady of Gold – Painting from Imagination

Reposed

Don’t Spill the Martini

Flower in Her Hair

Lady with Umbrella

Her Back

Big Curls

The Picture Taker

Cookie

Girls Got to Have Fun

Yellow Hat

Flowers in Her Hat

I also enjoy Making and painting with Patterns in Painter.  The following are a couple of examples.

Lady with Pearls

Exotic

Thank You! Winifred

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Workspace, Arrange Pallets, Custom Pallets in Corel Painter X3

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There is often a great deal of confusion about what the term WORKSPACE means in Painter. This confusion is supported by the common  usage of the term workspace, which is not the same thing.  There is  also confusion – or lack of understanding about the difference between the terms Workspace, Arrange Palettes, and Custom Palettes.  I hope this video will serve to add some clarity to these terms.  Please let me know if this video helps. this information is applicable to Painter 12.2 as well.

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Winifred’s Paintings of Trees

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I find it very interesting to see my paintings of trees since 2006. This is not something I have ever focused on exclusively though there are a few stand alone tree digital Paintings. Some of the trees simply exist within the context of a painting but they are so varied, I thought I would put this group together to share with you. The variety of styles in which I paint  is amazing – even to me.

My very first digital painting is a girl in a swing in a tree created in 2006 after my first Painter digital painting workshop. I am certainly not bragging about it’s sophistication but I still enjoy it.  I managed to use vibrant complimentary colors and to inject energy movement, texture and fun.

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First Digital Painting 2006

Bride Amongst Trees 2006

Painting using photo reference created in Photoshop.  When I saw the giant dogwood in bloom in Manhasset NY, I knew this was the spot.

A 300 year old Oak tree was the reference image for this commissioned painting  also painted in Photoshop.

This from imagination using selections and pattern fills in Painter

Picking Apples

Shadow Play

The Plaza

In the Garden

Cypress Trees

Village – in Photoshop

10 Minute Sketch – Spring

Just doodling  and testing brushes – Amazing what can happen.

They don’t all work but love the texture.

Commissioned  Original – She wanted a Tree of Life

10 minute Painting Sketch

The Sunflower Tree – An all time favorite!

Dancing Trees

Trees and Shrubs – Painted with Patterns

Imaginary Farm

Heavy with Leaves

Kneeling Boughs

 

 

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Register for Almost One to One Summer Workshop

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June or July Almost 1 to 1 Personalized Online Training Workshop

I awoke one morning and thought to myself, “why do I enjoy this training so much”. The answer came to me immediately, “because it is like tending flowers – creating a nurturing environment in which they can grow”.  I do love my flowers.

Since November 2012, I have offered personalized online digital painting training to aspiring to intermediate digital painters.  With a few students, we have started at the very beginning, having to install Painter and it’s updates before we could begin.  With others it has been going deeper into Painters amazing capacity to create beautiful and expressive paintings.  Often astist want to work with looser brushstrokes and have a difficult time letting go the detail.  I understand this.

This training is limited to one to two persons at any one time. This training has been very successful. Can you imagine such personalized attention being lavished just on you – directed toward your training needs. At this time I have 3 individual workshops in progress. That is what I do and I love it.

My paintings styles are quite versatile, hence, I can assist you toward the style you desire.

Register now to treat yourself to a June or July  Almost 1 to 1 Workshop. Click Here for Details  You will likely be treated like a flower!

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Winifred’s Painting with Patterns Workshop is Scheduled

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Painting with Patterns Online 6 Hour Mini Live Session Workshop 

Coming Saturday June 1st, 2013  –  8 a.m. PST

Register Now For the Early Bird Discount – Ends May 14th

I enjoy incorporating patterns into my paintings. I tend to include patterns structurally into my painting even if not selecting patterns from my Pattern Library.

However, recently I created several paintings which included custom patterns from my library. Many viewers were enjoyed these unusual paintings and I received several inquiries from several wanting  to learn more about this process. Hence,  I have scheduled a Painting with Patterns Online 6 Hour Mini Live Session Workshop. I enjoy creating such paintings very much and I am sure it will be fun for you as well. I enjoy both the process creating patterns and the process of identifying creative ways to include and insert them into paintings. In the workshop, we will do both.

Although portraits are featured on this page. Patterns are equally suitable to include creatively in building exteriors and interiors, outdoor scenes, in clothing, and in any creative way you can imagine.

Click Here to View Painting with Patterns Workshop Details Here 

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…. and just for play!!  We can work with simple images in the workshop if you like.

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Drawing with My Eyes Closed

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Recently I decided to practice creating some quick sketches.  I was taking  5 to 10 minutes on each full bodied sketch.  It was going well – I did 10 of them.   Then the thought popped into my mind  to attempt a sketch with my eyes closed. I  envisioned an action – a figure pose. I closed my eyes and visualized it. Then without lifting my stylus from the tablet I quickly sketched the pose. It worked and I laughed out loud at the result.  I tried another and another. I loved  them. The fact is, I love to create images which make me laugh and these certainly did the trick.

I thought you would enjoy seeing these quick sketches.

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Winifred Creating Triangles in Composition

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A couple of days ago I posted some new paintings on facebook.  My take on the “Three Graces” which I will share with you in several variations, including the reference image.

In addition to enjoying them, a artist friend Cyndi Hornsby noticed that there were so many triangles contained within the composition “8 or 9 at least” she said.  I certainly found the forms very pleasing but had honestly not paid attention to the triangles.  And then I did. WOW!!

I went to internet and picked up a few quotes which I think aptly apply.

Triangular Composition


  • The triangle is used as a tool in composition to indicate the important elements in a work of art. The artist will create the primary subject inside the boundaries of a large imaginary triangle. The viewer will intuitively be drawn into the important elements of the picture through the use of triangular composition. There may be smaller triangular compositions that complement the main subject. There are no rules as to the size or placement of the triangular composition.

  • Simple geometric shapes within a painting or photograph can help strengthen the composition. A triangle is one of the strongest compositional shapes, as it can add a sense of visual unity. In essence, a triangle is a closed curve incorporating at least one diagonal. Since the curve is closed, it won’t lead the eye outside of the frame. A single triangle in in the middle of the frame can lead to a somewhat static composition, but triangular composition can be found in many famous works of art.

  • The shape of a triangle is made up of two diagonal lines that are anchored on a horizontal line. In a painting or photograph, a triangle will guide our eye to the triangle’s three separate points. The image or figure at the peak of the triangle will appear to superior to other images; if the triangle is reversed, the figure at the bottom will appear inferior. A triangular composition can help make an image more coherent and the form appear more dynamic.


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