Corel Digital Painting Competition

Results of the May Competition

Jump back to the Winner and finalists here.

These entries caught the judges' eyes for a number of reasons.

Gavin Phillips, Aurora, IL, USA www.photoeffects.biz

Both of my digital paintings were created from photographs of my children. I created them in Photoshop using the art history brush and custom brushes. I then added texture to give them a more realistic painted look.

Judges comment: "Painting on painting, what more could you want '

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Linda A. Levy, Santa Cruz, CA, USA www.LindaLevy.com

Attached 2 jpg images, both are scenes from the California west coast, and are derived from my plein air sketches.

I use Painter to create everything. Nothing is scanned.
I created an “artist” brush, which mimics multiple pastel strokes in one physical pen stroke. When you press lightly on the pen, the brush strokes color blends with the underlying color. When you press harder on the pen, the brush color becomes more dominant. The results give you a wonderful blending effect, with lots of movement.

I start each piece as I would a “traditional” pastel: I use sanded pastel paper; I apply watercolor washes to lay in basic color; and I use my “Linda’ Pastel” brush to lay in color, working with a large size brush and getting increasingly smaller brush as I go. I play a lot with color, working to achieve a good balance, with foreground color setting up the middle ground interest areas, and the background supporting that central area of interest. When complete, I print out one final on Epson Presentation paper, using my Epson 3000 with archival inks, then matt and frame the image archivally. I only create one-of-a-kind pieces. Once the final print is done to my satisfaction, that’s it.

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Bob Ashby, Algona, WA, USA http://www.wolfgrafx.com

The attached file titled “Waterfall” was created using Corel Painter 8. A digital photograph was the basis of the image. This was all done on a PC with a Wacom tablet.