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Digital Watercolour Demonstration of Crooked Little Creek
Digital Watercolour Demonstration of Crooked Little Creek
This winter landscape was painted with Corel Painter 11 using John Derry’s Watercolour Brushes and my own custom brushes and techniques.
Below is an example of how to blend using the Wet Blender.
 6. One of the advantages to cloning your document is that it drops and dries the layers and you will still have the one with all the layers intact if you need to go back and work on a specific layer. I usually save it as the next number once I decide I'm keeping the cloned one.   7. At this point things are looking kind of sloppy. I am trying to concentrate on getting the shapes right.
 8. Working on the detail in different areas using various brushes and techniques.
 9. As you can see in this illustration there are multiple layers, some digital watercolour, some watercolour and the canvas which has the layers I have already dropped. I think all told there must have been about 50 layers in this painting. I had to group them, and drop them at points because it's too cumbersome working with that many layers, and Corel tends to crash when you get too many going!
 10. The center of interest or focal point needs some more emphasis, so I added some darker blue to this area and used the Liquid Ink Brushes to get some snow on the branches in here.
   11. In this painting I used a Real Fine Point Pen changed to a Wet Setting for the branches and at times I used the Focus setting to soften it slightly. I had a hard time with the branches. I didn't want too many in there, and wanted them to point to the focal point mostly. Feel like I've painted a lot of branches in the past month or so and there are getting more realistic looking. The trick seems to be to make them longer and make sure the size tapers ...to smaller... to tiny, like real branches do.
12. How to change a Pen to a Wet Pen so it will go on a watercolour layer.
 The setting is very tiny and you have to vary it to vary the size of the branch.
 12. I added more to the canvas at the top and bottom to make it fit the size I wanted better. It was fairly easy to paintthe sky and treeline again and the snow at the bottom. It's not always this easy, so better to start bigger next time.
Final adjustments included a little adjustment of the contrast. I will have to reduce the dye concentration when I print it.
In case you are wondering why I have this fascination with snowy creeks I guess it's because you can paint the landscapes you are most familiar with and have a feeling for better. I am not familiar with mountains and seascapes, and until I actually visit them more I don't think I can paint them. (Same reason I don't do horses ~ Adrienne lol!)
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Thursday, January 28th
Joan said: Hi Chris and Thomas
Tuesday, February 2nd
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Thomas Krekow said:
Joan, thank you for taking the time to share your talent, you have a very calming teaching style. I am looking forward to learning more from you through your art newsletter.
Love John Derry’s Watercolour Brushes and thanks to John for posting your image on his blog, http://pixlart.blogspot.com and introducing you to us.