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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.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JqehSJN2H0
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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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.
Winifred Whitfield is a portrait painter, a fine art painter and teaches digital painting using Corel Painter and Photoshop.
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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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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.
By now you likely know the importance I find in just playing,” doodling” sometimes I call it. Just put that brush to canvas and see where it takes you. That is how the following painting was born. I was continuing to explore the Real Camelhair brush variant in the Oil Category of Corel Painter which will sample multiple colors. And so I “dipped” into blue and white and started to twirl – creating a “Van Gough” sky. And then yellow and more blue. OK – fun – time to form land. Waves of green began to form a hill side, and then the reverse then gave depth and perspective. Perhaps there should be trees, I thought, more twirls formed the trees and then the apples. Apples started to fall to the ground and to roll to low spots. Perhaps there should be children gathering them, I thought. Little girls appeared, two of them more interested in the collecting than the other – who read her book. I thought of body positions, sitting, reaching, bracing on a hillside. I was able to do this quickly and fluidly – I am always amazed when this happens. And so this cheerful illustrative painting came into being.
And so it goes sometimes, when I put brush to canvas.
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
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.
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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By Winifred
There are times I want to talk about a painting. Not in this case. This painting tells its own story very well.