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Painting More and More … if this is possible.

The Portrait Tutorial Store goes well and I even have an Fine Art Gallery online now. It has been a very busy several months.  My happy place however is painting.  I experiment quite a bit with my painting.  I work with and explore many different styles of work. I am not sure there are names for some of these styles. they are winifred.  I am considered a versatile painter and indeed this is true for now.

This is a painting I created recently. I have included the sketch, an image of the blocking in phase and the finished painting.  All of this is done digitally in Corel Painter 12.2. It is absolutely amazing what we can now create.

Please visit my fine art gallery – just click – Art Gallery

 

 

 

 

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Winifred Whitfield’s Portrait Tutorial Store Now Open

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Winifred Whitfield trains digital portrait painters. Winifred’s Portrait Tutorial Store offers a collection of portrait painting tutorials for all painting levels, which can be purchased  and downloaded immediately from the store, individually or in multiples. The collection as of this date, includes 10  tutorials –  approximately 1 to 2.5 hours in length, which includes the painting of women, glamour, children, portrait fine art, and a man.

Please Visit Our Store

Ethnicity varies amongst the portrait paintings.  You will not be disappointed in the range of tutorial choices available to you. Short Video Previews are also available on the STORE page and Winifred is personally abailable to assist you in making the choice/s right for you. In addition there are many freebies –  gifts to you!  Please visit soon.

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Tutorial Examples:


  Girl in White

 

Girl with Flower 

Lady in Red 

Creating Hollywood Glamour 

Man in White Shirt 

Corel Painter Training

In addition, there are about 10 viewer favorite Corel Painter 12.2  tutorials youtube videos now on the site from My Youtube Channel – where there are now more than 30 tutorials.

Please be sure to take advantage of these resources.

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Corel Painter 12.1 – Fun Painting

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I thought I would try something different.  I am a huge fan of playing and experimenting.  To do so even with the “camera running” is even a greater challenge.  This is painting from imagination, just quickly putting the brush down as the image comes to mind.  If course the video speed was increased fur entertainment value.  I hope you enjoy. Winifred

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Corel Painter 12.1 GRADIENTS

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All About Gradients

This week, I posted a video about ways to create and use Gradients in Corel Painter 12.1.  I often use gradients in painter.  Filling  a canvas with a gradient or using it as an overlay  is a good way to quickly get some color on your canvas and often sparks the next creative idea.

In this video, you will learn how to create a two-point gradient and how to save it, how to create a custom color gradient from a strip, (1000 pixels wide by 50 pixels deep), save it and capture the icon, and how to create your own gradient library.  To add additional gradient  collections to your libraries, please to to Corel Painters “extra content” page or click on the direct link  to the extra content on my RESOURCES blog page. I hope you enjoy this video. Winifred.

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Corel Painter Tutorial 12.1 – Selections and Textures

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The purpose of this Tutorial is to build experience in in visualizing a non photographic image,  making complex selections,  and making decisions about color texture which will affect the design and creativity of your painting. Any brush which has  “grain” in it’s name can be used.  I used the soft pastel.  With pastel and chalk brushes a grain setting of 7% gives the maximin grain.  Taking the grain setting to 100 percent pretty much allows you to paint without grain.  This is a fun way to create a painting and a good way to  experiment with creating a painting without cloning from a photo. Just play and enjoy.


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Winifred Whitfield Turns Photographs to Paintings

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Photographs often serve as my inspiration, but I love creating portrait and fine art paintings. Whether the photograph is taped on on a wall to view or exist as an underlying layer in Corel Painter, my mission is to go beyond – far  beyond the photograph which inspires me to create a painting.

The following image progression represents just such a process.  I wish I could say that when I started to paint  I know where I am  going – that I have envisioned the final painting.  The fact is that  is rarely the case.  My paintings are created one brushstroke or one vision at a time ,as in – just keep putting one foot in front the other.  I just follow inner vision. Often I close my eyes to envision the  that next step and it always comes.  For sure, nothing will happen if one does not start. So, I support you in starting, in experimenting, in playing.  I paint everyday because I love it. I learn something new everyday.

The following image progression represents one such artistic journey for me:

Reference image – a boudoir portrait. I knew I wanted to subdue the colors

and to soften and paint all with brushstrokes and to darken her

bright sparkling eyes, to remove photographic detail.

I  changed the color pallet of the image before creating a
clone with painterly  brush strokes.

Now I was on my on and  I would paint the remainder from imagination.
I felt she needed a hat and I painted one.

I started to envision details – like flowers on her hat.

A color scheme continued to emerge.  I was not happy with the hands

in the original image  – not for hands in a classic portrait.

I painted a hand thinking of the grace and stylized long tapered

fingers seen in classic portraiture.

This is the final painting, its character, visual and emotional

content has been altered and it is sensuous in a different way.


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Corel Painter 12.1 – All About Color Sets

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Use color sets to select a single color or select all the colors in a color set to paint with. Create custom color sets, add new color sets fron Corel Painter Extra Content. Modify a  color set. Add or delete from view color sets.  This video will show you how.

I created a custom color set in order to select colors for this painting.

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Corel Painter 12.1 Tutorial – Creating Multi Color Brush Strokes

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Multi color brush strokes add to the richness of this painting.

Create multiple colors in your brush strokes by:

1) varying hue, saturation and value (HSV),

2) select color from a gradient or,

3) select color from an entire color set.

I am sure you will  enjoy creating more colorful and expressive brush strokes.  The set of brushes I referred to are called Desert Oasis.  They are watercolor brushes and would have to be converted to “cover” if they are to be used as a non watercolor variant. They can be found at Skip Allen Paints Blog along with many other brush sets he makes available for free.

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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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