Corel Digital Painting Competition

Results of the June Competition

This was a VERY hard competition to judge. There was absolutely fantastic work from five or so artists who all deserved to win.

 

The June Winner of the Corel Painter IX.5 software is Branko Bistrovic, Toronto, Ont., Canada http://rasdasa.cgsociety.org/gallery/

I approach my digital painting in the same manner as my traditional work, that is, with a quick and loose gesture, which, once I think I've found, I try to keep through the whole piece.
I vary my brushes from the usual (air brush hard edged mainly) to ones of my own making, at times created specifically for the piece at hand. I also vary between Photoshop and Painter, depending on both on subconscious whim and on how I wish to deal with the value/textures, I find Photoshop better for metallic surfaces while painter is better for flesh. Although both are fine for either, I do prefer Painter, it's just a more free stroke. They also both help vary my style, which is always welcomed.

 

Judges comments: 'Wonderful painting. Great use of light and dark. Great energy has been captured in this piece'.

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Runners up were:

Tim O'Neill, North Platte, NE, USA

Judges comments: 'Excellent painting. Good use of several programs.'

"Piercing the Veil". This painting was the first of several experiments. Using painter Corel 9.5 to paint a few images (Christ on the cross, fire and brimstone with people and an very loose super nova) I then went to photoshop and combined the images-resizing and distorting. I took that combined image back to painter and finished adding the remaining elements,then added contrast and saturation.

 

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"Elise" This is a painting of my daughter that I captured with a Nikon d100, with a 200mm lens at f4, available light pouring through a huge window. I used tracing paper in Corel Painter IX and built up the layers of paint on the canvas using primarily oil brushes and 2 custom built brushes. I flattened the 6 layers, added contrast and saturation. I was hoping for a low key, warm rembrandt type oil. It is a large file as it originally was painted 30x40. Though not the nicest from a techincal standpoint it is a family heirloom piece that has helped me capture a few new commissions.

 

Judge's comments: 'Best use of Painter we have seen for producing a painting from a photograph. Stunning'

 

 

 

Alécio Costa Delfino, Alcode, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

Judges comments: 'Humour, fun. Great illustration.'

This image was created after discussing about B movies with other artists. The image that popped my mind was one of those Alien Invasion movies where those guys has big heads and illuminated eyes and shining clothes. And what kind of invasion this could be if the alien wasn´t hungry for an human resource like...brains!!!

 

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This portait started as a caricaturesque portait of an old famous humorist! What a funny wonderful guy and with that giant teethless smile! One curiosity about this is when looking for image reference the chosen one with that pose was in black and white!

 

David Kyte, Detroit, MI, USA http://www.motorsportsartist.com/

 

Judge's comments: 'Great, loose painting. Lovely'

Most of this impressionistic image was created from scratch using a Acer Tablet PC. Painting was then brought into Painter on a Mac for up sizing final painting using a Wacom Tablet.

 

Mary E. DiRuzzo

"Siberian Iris" was created from a pencil nature study, scaned into Photoshop CS for basic composition. It was painted entirely in Painter IX using various custom water color and chalk brushes. "Siberian Iris" was printed on archival water color paper with an Epson 2400.

Judge's comment: 'Wonderful painting from life. Excellent skill and great work'

 

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"Pears" was created from a pencil nature study, scaned into Photoshop CS for basic composition. It was painted entirely in Painter IX using oil and acrylic brushes with surface texture added to simulate traditional oil painting. Pears was printed on canvas with an Epson 2400.

 

Carl B. Wenrich, Temple, PA, USA

 

Was completely hand painted in Corel IX.5. The background was done with auto-paint, varying the stroke and colors. The central image was hand painted on a separate layer, the layers were duplicated and the blend mode changed several times to arrive at the finished image.

 

SkyDancer, Saline, Michigan, USA www.skydancers.com

 

This was created using Corel's Painter program. I used the oil pastel brush with touches of cover pencil. I liked the idea of this great mother figure with hair of stars filling the universe.

Laurie Thompson, New Orleans, La, USA www.fauxtografix.com

 

French Market Grocery

A grocery store on a French Quarter street is the subject of this digital painting. Done in Painter from a picture taken before the hurricane last year, it depicts the bright colors and quaintness of the area.

 

Kathy Noble, Boyds, MD, USA

 

I took the photograph at a dance recital using a Canon Rebel XT with a 430EX flash. I adjusted it in Photoshop by increasing the saturation and simplifying the background. I then took the image into Painter and, starting with large brush sizes, I painted the figure and parts of the background on a textured paper using oils, acrylics and chalk as cloners. Gradually I reduced the brush size to pick up details in the figure. Then, using colors I picked up from several areas of the dancer's costume I added them to areas of the background in large blocks to unify the entire image and set the figure off with an "aura" of colors that implied the energy she had exhibited. I then took the image back to Photoshop to adjust the colors, re-size and sharpen it.

 

Susan Kinney, Great Falls, Montana, USA www.smkgraphicstudio.com

 

This is done in Artist Oils in Painter IX. Smearing on all the colors with the oil brushes and then using the blenders to move the colors. Once you get all your colors down and start moving them, you can feel the painting come to life. It is very relaxing to just blend for hours..lol. :) This painting was also a request to be done by my mom who liked a simular painting i had done from a tutorial lessen but it was too small to print or use..so i re-did it, re-vamped it and made it bigger and badder then before. So far everyone likes it.