December 2007 Artistry Tips and Tricks

Topics Covered

The December 2007 issue of Artistry Tips and Tricks shows
how to collage a portrait from photos in Corel Painter.

I painted this portrait to commemorate Laurence Gartel's
inaugural Digital Long Island, the festival he created to
celebrate digital art.

I painted the portrait in black and white because my abstract
art is black and white, so this is my art style.

You can use the collaging techniques in the tutorial in black and
white or in color to celebrate the events in anyone's life.

Topics covered in this issue include:

*How to turn photos into paintings in Corel Painter
*How to draw a charcoal and pastel portrait from a photo
*How to paint eyes and hair
*How to use Painter's brushes
*How to use Painter X's automated tools
*How to choose and adjust colors
*How to use cloner brushes
*How to use Tracing Paper
*How to collage backgrounds using Painter's layers
*How to create and manipulate layers in Painter
*How to use layers tools including composite methods and layer masks
*How to resize layers using Free and Commit Transform
*How to use art concepts to create dynamic collages
*Start-to-finish workflow steps

All the interim images are provided alongside the written step-by-step
instructions within the Acrobat file.

Click the thumbnail to see the photo and painting covered
in the December 2007 Artistry Tips and Tricks.

Painting and photo of Laurence Gartel
by Karen Sperling.

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Karen Sperling is working on a new Painter book and is inviting you to help her publish it!

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Artistry Backdrops for Photographs

Add an unusual painterly touch to your photos and painted portraits with unique Artistry Backdrops (both the backgrounds on the book cover above and in the image at left are Artistry Backdrops).

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