Corel Painter: PhotoPainting & Portraiture II Online Class

April 21st, 2010 lvs Posted in In The Spotlight | No Comments »

Further enhance your PhotoPainting & Portraiture skills by learning how to paint beautiful skies and embellish your painting with textures; pastels, snow scene paintings and animal portraiture ; paint hair, fur and feathers – paint your own favorite pet. All this from photographs!

PhotoPainting & Portraiture Painting

The PhotoPainting & Portraiture II online class covers more landscape painting but introduces painting of animals and birds. You will have the opportunity of painting your very own favorite pooch or kitty, or other favorite animal.

Each week you are given an image as you did in PhotoPainting & Portraiture I and step by step instruction is given on how to transform a photograph into a lovely painterly image. You are then requested to paint your own.

Create your own hairy brush; learn what brushes are great for feather painting and make a nice brush for snow, although I have provided brushes for this. In the PhotoPainting & Portraiture II online course there are some video demonstrations, so look out for that information in the lesson.

Lesson 1

  • From a basic Sunset Photograph create A Stunning Painting
  • Applying Texture and Embellishments

Lesson 2

  • Paint a unique Pastel Painting
  • Change a basic photograph into a Painterly
  • Painting by using the lovely medium of Pastel
Lesson 3

  • Painting Snow
  • Make a beautiful snow scene from a basic photograph
  • Brushes for snow and trees

 Lesson 4

  • Paint a lovely image of a Scottie Dog
  • Learn how to make a brush for Dog Hair
  • Paint your own favorite doggy portrait

Lesson 5

  • How to Paint Feathers
  • Paint a Parrot
  • Learn how to make application of various brushes to paint feathers

Lesson 6

  • Cats – large or small they are always a favorite to paint.
  • Painting your own favorite cat and also one of the Big Cats – Tiger
  • This is an interesting and fun project in a variety of Digital Watercolour.

PhotoPainting and Portraiture Online Class Instructor

Maureen Eves-Lavis is the instructor of the PhotoPainting & Portraiture II Online Class. Maureen has always been interested in art and drawing, arts and crafts such as dressmaking from her early school days through to attending Art College. Dabbling in real media art, particularly in sketching and drawing, then oils and acrylics … then…. her interest turned to graphic arts software. In the 1990s she obtained a copy of PhotoImpact, which she played around with for a while. It wasn’t until 2004 when she became more serious in arts and graphics, but more in Digital Art. In 2005 Maureen attended Digital Art Classes that opened a whole new and exciting world to her.

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