Beginner's Tips for Corel Painter 11 Digital Painting

Using a Cut out to make compositional changes in digital painting

It's easy to make compositional decisions when you can move elements around on the canvas. This is a trick that you can't do in traditional watercolours (it would be too hard to remove the water and mountain where the trees are now.) Lasso the trees in your original sketch document (this is why you…(continue reading)

Morning Mist a digital Watercolour in Progress

    A Beginner's Tip used a different way... Quick Clone your Value Study     Morning Mist a digital Watercolour in Progress       Morning Mist Value Study No. 1       I've been reading and trying to absorb some basic painting  lessons…(continue reading)

Using the Underpainting Controls in Digital Watercolour Technique

 Using the Underpainting Controls in Digital Watercolour Technique   The following is taken from the Online Help Manual for Corel Painter 11. There are more controls, but these are the ones I use in my digital watercolour technique. I had not used the "Smart Blur" before, and I thank…(continue reading)

Gel Wash/Wet Blender Watercolour Technique with Corel Painter

  Gel Wash/Wet Blender Technique  You will need John Derry’s Watercolour Brushes to get the random roughened edges, but this technique works using the default Painter Digital Watercolour brushes and other brushes as well. Open a new layer and using this Gel Wash/Wet Blender technique…(continue reading)