Artistry CD Sample

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Excerpt:Watercolor Portraits Tutorial

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Painting by Karen Sperling from a photo at http://www.sxc.hu/. To see a list of the tutorials included on the Artistry Bonus CD, visit http://www.artistrymag.com/docs/cd01


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Painting for Photographers Bonus CD Tutorials Page 23

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I created this watercolor painting from this photo withthe SperlingWC1 variants available here on the Artistry

Bonus CD.This tutorial shows you how I did it.

WatercolorPortraits

Painting by Karen Sperling from a photoby http://www.sxc.hu/.


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Traditional watercolor artists paint from light to dark,vs. oil painters who paint from dark to light.

Watercolor painters start with the white paper, leavesome of it showing through as highlights and thenpaint colors, building up tones gradually.To start with white paper in Painter, start with a blank

canvas and turn on Tracing Paper.1. Open a photo in Painter.

2. Choose File: Clone and save the clone (File: SaveAs).

3. Clear the clone (Select: All, press delete, Mac; back-space Windows).

4. Click the Tracing Paper icon in the image windowstop, right-hand corner to turn on Tracing Paper.(Click it again to turn Tracing Paper off).

The source photo is visible in the clone, but its just aghost. If you were to print now, the page would beblank.

For more information about clones and Tracing Paper,see Painting for Photographers, pages 26-27.



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Choose the SperlingWC1 variant. Turn on TracingPaper and begin to paint to define the figure based onthe colors and tones you see in the photograph. Shutoff Tracing Paper to check your progress and turn

Tracing Paper back on again and continue to paint.Raise the Size slider in the Property Bar to paint wider

strokes, like in the cheeks, and lower the Size slider topaint thinner strokes, like near the eyes.





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Adjust the Size slider to paint wider strokes on largerareas like the hair.

Dont worry about details for now. Youre just creatingwashes of light and dark color based on the tones inthe photo. Paint with Tracing Paper turned on, then

shut off Tracing Paper to see your progress.Press lightly with the stylus while you paint to blend

colors together. Also, if you start on a light area anddrag youll get a lighter color, start on a darker area andthe brush stroke will be darker.





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Continue to paint tones based on what you see in thephoto.You paint by building up all the areas of the painting

at the same time. You dont, for example, paint an eyeuntil its completely done and then paint the other one.The idea is to build up the tones throughout the paint-

ing, and as you do so, details will emerge.

The SperlingWC variants are based on Painters DigitalWatercolors, which paint in what I call the mezzanine,

an area that I think of as between the canvas and alayer. You can easily fix or blend strokes by simplypainting over them while the strokes are still in thismezzanine wet layer. They remain wet until you drythem (Layers menu: Dry Digital Watercolor). They alsostay wet if you save in Painters native .rif (RIFF) for-mat. They dry if you save in any other file format. You

cant open .rif files in Photoshop, by the way.





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Paint and lift and paint and lift to get strokes withedges, like around the lips and eyes; paint without lift-ing to get blended strokes, like on the face.Another way to create an edge is to paint a dark

stroke, then paint a light stroke next to it, overlapping

the edge of the dark stroke slightly. Thats how I filledin the collar.To get the look of traditional watercolor, dont blend

everythingleave some brush stroke edges showing.





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Paint with light colors or white to lighten.You can also paint with the Digital Watercolors Wet

Eraser to lighten areas and to create highlights.

Paint shadows to show folds in clothing, like you seein the above image.





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To paint the eyes, start by filling in the entire iris witha dark tone with the SperlingWC1 variant.

Continue to paint with Tracing Paper turned on, then

check your progress with Tracing Paper turned off,then turn it back on again to paint.





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Paint the bottom of the irises with the SperlingWCIrisvariant to lighten them a little based on the art conceptthat the tops of the eyes are darker because theyre inshadow.Add dark tones around the iris and for the pupil with

the SperlingWC1 variant on a low Size slider setting inthe Property Bar.

Paint catch lights with the SperlingWCCatchlight vari-ant with the idea of showing the light source hitting theeyes.





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With the Sperling WCBlender, blend a little, againadjusting the Size slider based on the width of the area

you wish to paint. Dont go overboard. The image willlook more painterly the less you blend.





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Paint the hair with the SperlingWCHair variant.This brush is an eraser and only works if you want to

create white/blonde hair because its erasing thin linesin the watercolor level. It wont work on non-watercol-or strokes.And because its an eraser, it wont work on white,

only on areas with color.To paint any other color hair, choose the SperlingWC1

variant, lower the Size slider in the Property Bar,choose the desired color in the Colors palette, andpaint.





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Paint some darker tones in the hair, under the chinand in the collar with the SperlingWC1.

Paint with the SperlingWCEraser on the cheeks tolighten them a bit because theoretically, the light source

shines on them.When done, choose Layers: Dry Digital Watercolor.And thats how I created a watercolor portrait in Corel

Painter!




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Learn Karen Sperlings painting techniques withoutleaving home by watching the videos on The Paintingfor Photographers Volume 1: Portraits DVD.The DVD tutorial movies show Karen painting stepby step in Corel Painter a classic photo portrait byrenowned photographer Phillip Stewart Charis.

The Bonus tutorial movies show how to create back-grounds with Painters brushes and how to combine fig-

ures with backgrounds in Photoshop.The movies include not just the software steps but alsothe art theories and concepts to help you know the whyin addition to the how for painting from photos.The Painting for Photographers DVD includes: 1:15 hours of tutorial movies

3 bonus movies with additional instruction Bonus materials including brushes and backgrounds

Watch Painting Demonstrations,Without Leaving Home!

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Painting by Karen Sperling from a photo by Phillip Stewart Charis


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I have taken other classes in painting that were taught by peo-ple well known in the world of professional photography andalthough I did gain knowledge from every class I have taken, Ifeel Karen Sperlings method of teaching and deep understand-ing of the nuts and bolts of the program mixed with her true

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Karen Sperling, the original Corel Painter expert, wrote the pro-grams f irst several manuals, beginning when the softwaredebuted in 1991. She went on to teach Painter in just aboutevery venue there is,from individual privatelessons to lectures at thenational PPA and WPPIconventions. And shehas written four Painterbooks. Karen has beenwriting about and teach-ing Painter longer than

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