Category Archives: Winifred Whitfield Workshops and Training

Corel Painter 12.1 Tutorials – Creating Painter LOOKS

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It is easy  to create custom and accessible brush and texture combinations called “LOOKS” in Corel Painter 12.1

I have created a custom “splatter look” with a specific brush and paper

to simulate the look spattered paint in the image below.

I  can now apply this”spatter” effect to any image with just the click of a “look”.

I hope  you enjoy this video, I would love to receive your comments and feedback.

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Winifred Whitfield  is a portrait painter, a fine art painter and teaches digital painting using  Corel Painter and Photoshop.

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Corel Painter 12.1 – Painting Dancers

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Painting Dancers

I love painting dancers though I have not created many such paintings.  I am changing this. I enjoyed painting the variations below in Corel Painter 12.1.

Watch the video to see how I create the four variations of this painting. Unfortunately, there is not enough time in the 15 minutes to demonstrate the initial painting.

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Corel Painter 12.1 – Creating a Sketch

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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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From Photo to Painting

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As you know, I  derive great pleasure in taking a photo which appeals to me and making it a painting.  To the extent you can visual the  final Painting – or at least come close, you are all the better for it. Your workflow and process will go more smoothly.  I was fascinated by this architecture. I decided that I wanted to give the image more space so I enlarged the canvas area and extended the sky and water.  From that, I could make a sketch and begin to paint adding and removing elements,  and adjusting colors as the painting evolved.

Original Photo

A Sketch  Can be Made in Painter or Photoshop

Final Painting with Additional Texture Layer Applied



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Spring in New York

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Spring 2012

I don’t know when New York has had  a winter such as the one past.  There was a freaky heavy snow this past Halloween.  I was in town at that time as well.  I found the beauty but was not inconvenienced by it.  Back again, to experience an early full blown sun lit Spring.  I spend many of my days at the museums. Yesterday I saw the Gertrude Stein collection at the Met.  A couple of days ago, I viewed the Diego Rivera exhibit at MOMA.

Since recently taking a class in painting street scenes, I must say that I have been looking at the people, traffic and buildings in New York in quite a different way. After leaving the Met a few days ago, I walked wistfully down 5th Ave.  Central Park was across the street from me  to my right and I sought to hug any strip of shade I could find next to the buildings which flanked me to my left. Suddenly I came upon a courtyard with two cherry trees in bloom.  A high fence  beautiful ornamental wrought iron fence shielded the property from the public.  I stuck my iPhone through the , however to snap a couple of images. An interesting perspective, I thought.  This is the resulting painting.  I like it quite a lot.

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The Old With The New

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To create this painting I use the architecture from Bologna which I photographed in 2008 and horse and buggy images  photographed in New York Central Park in 2012 as reference images.  Paying critical attention to perspective this painting was created.  Additional characters were included via imagination along with the tree and little birds.  In Central Park, pigeons by the dozen hover and feed on the spilled feed of the horses. I really enjoyed using these reference images to create an image with in my mind appears as a scene  from the 1800’s.

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Corel Painter 12.1 Tutorial – Sampling Multiple Colors

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Sometimes magic occurs in our paintings when we least expect it. I love that

By Winifred

There are times I want to talk about a painting.  Not in this case. This painting tells its own story very well.


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Winifred Painting Street Scenes

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A new 4 week class has begun with the Digital Art Academy focused on painting street scenes. We were all given the same reference image and allowed  total artistic  flexibility in how we developed our paintings from the image.  It was wonderful to see the range of artistic expression amongst all in the class.  Off course no one else  painted  people in  different clothing nor created duotone paintings.  I think I have been watching too many historic European movies.

This is  the reference photo used.

This was my interpretation as a painting.

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Corel Painter 12.1 Painting With Impasto

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See how I visualize and compose a painting, Add impasto texture to your painting. This video demonstrates these processes.

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Negative Watercolor Painting

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Negative Painting in Corel Painter 12 – Painting on the Outside

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,

Jeannie McGuire

Linda Kemp

Calla Lily by Winifred

I would say that it definitely does have a different look to it and I do like it.

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