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Demonstration of Digital Watercolor Painting Techniques Using Corel Painter 9.5 -Pickerel Weed Part OneMy apologies to those of you have seen this post on my old website and blog. Thanks for visiting and I hope you return often to see more art and demonstrations. Demonstration of Digital Watercolor Painting Techniques Using Corel Painter 9.5 ( First published August 2008 )
Illustration No. 1 Pickerel Weed - Sketch Layer The sketch of Pickerel Weed was done with sharp chalk on a new layer. Later I will either erase or blend it in pretty thoroughly. Sometimes I leave it, if it happens to be the right mark in the right place.
Pickerel Weed WIP Illustration No. 2 On a new layer I began painting with greens and yellows using a custom pointed digital watercolour and digital watercolour blender. I am either blending the original chalk sketch in with a soft pointed blender brush or erasing it. I have not dried the digital watercolour layer yet, because I may want to blend it some more. As you can see, I'm starting with the actual plant and leaving the reflections until later. I'm going to try to put this layer on top of a layer I have started painting the water on. I will have to cut the water areas out of this plant layer to get the water on the layer underneath to show. Tip: Remember the Lasso Tool. I seem to remember doing this before and being able to erase the top layer to see the one underneath. When I tried that this time, it just erased the water too. Not what I want to do. I'll have to experiment and do some research to figure that out, because it will be so much easier and cleaner looking to erase rather than cut. I can also vary the opacity of my eraser brush giving me another way to vary the amount of paint on the paper. More later... Feel free to ask questions about or comment on whatever you see here. Please use the Comments Form. Thanks! The above was written in August/08 ... I have learned a few new tricks since then, but this is still all part of the techniques I've developed. This is interesting to look at even if you don't paint digitally, because it's such a cool medium to work in! I have had so many people ask me, "How I could possibly "do it" on the computer?" (A phrase which brings a totally off topic vision to my mind lol!) Anyway...this demonstration is fairly detailed compared to some of my shorter ones. HAPPY APRIL FOOL'S Day or is it April's Fool or Aprils Fools or Aprils Fool??? I used to love that day when I was a kid. It's not so easy to pin the perpetrator in a big family! Saw a neat April Fools Dinner on the Canadian Living site. Chicken and mashed potatoes that looked like apple crumble and vanilla ice cream! Yummy! Keep your eye open for Part Two! Bookmark it, or subscribe to the feed, or do whatever it is you do, to keep track of blogs you are following. :) Related postsCommentsAdd a comment |
Kari Nanstad said:
Hi Joan: Seems pretty explanatory to me, however, doing it and understanding it are probably two different strengths for Me:) You are such a terrific painter and artist, it seems to come so naturally and reflects in your wonderful paintings. Hugs.
Kari