Here is an Apple study in Pastel from life:

 

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Water Drop Digital Watercolor Study

A study in Corel Painter 12 using primarily Wet Type watercolors to emulate traditional techniques.

3″ x 5″

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Fear of InDesign

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Sky experiments with Corel Painter 12

I am taking a class with Digital Art Academy on Painting Landscape Elements with Corel Painter 12.

Here is some experiments using John Derry’s WaterColor brushes using Joan Hamilton’s techniques.

 

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Basic Brush for Corel Painter

I wanted a Hard Round Brush like the one in Photoshop for Painter, so I had to create one:

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Intuos 4 Art Pen Rotation

To keep the cursor from flipping on the Art Pen:

You have to set the cursor icon to Enhanced Ghost and notice the dot on the cursor.  Always keep the dot towards the outside as in the diagram and it stats stable and doesn’t flip.

 

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Color Wheel

Here is a Color Wheel done in Faber-Castell Polychromos Colored Pencils on Arches Hot-Press paper.

The inner ring is a complementary mix from one side to the other.

The next ring is pure color medium pressure.

Then the Tint ring: Pure color with light pressure.

Next the Tone ring: Pure color mixed with 50% grey.

Finally the outer ring is the Shade ring: Pure color mixed with 80% grey.

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Wood Duck WIP 1

Wood Duck Portrait in Pastel on Ingres paper. This is based on a reference photo from Winnu on Flickr (Creative Commons License).

Almost finished with the eye.

Wood Duck Portrait

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The Old Barn WIP 3

The Old Barn WIP 3

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The Old Barn WIP No. 2.

More progress…

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