Winifred's Portrait & Fine Art Gallery

Create “Flower Girl” Portraits in Corel Painter or Photoshop

winifredwhitfield — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:37:44 +0000

Creating Flower Girls You have seen my “flower girls” posted in a previous blog. I made this video to show you how to create them. It is quick and easy - unless you choose to paint them as I did. But for this video, I chose to do a non painted demo just to show [...]

Negative Watercolor Painting

winifredwhitfield — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:45:34 +0000

Negative Painting in Corel Painter 12 – Painting on the Outside I bet you never heard the term “negative” painting before. I had not until today – in my online class with Skip Allen, my watercolor instructor at the Digital Art Academy. There was quite a bit of discussion about this term. First of all [...]

Watercolor – A Little Cafe

winifredwhitfield — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:37:57 +0000

Well, I am making progress – I hope you think so after what I showed you yesterday. That was playtime – this is more serious. I started with this photograph. I think I was in – I am not sure really. I will do better with that next time. Anyway… the photo from which [...]

Winifred Photographing High School Seniors

winifredwhitfield — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:25:00 +0000

Photographing High School Seniors Naturally. I don’t photograph lots of seniors but when I do I enjoy it. They are definitely fun to work with. I like to keep things simple, natural, and outdoors when possible using simple but complimentary settings. I think long tern and don’t want to go wild with the possibilities which [...]

Winifred’s Homage to Gustav Klimt

winifredwhitfield — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:43:08 +0000

This video shares my process, my inspiration and my thinking for the painting of this portrait. This process started when Karen Bonaker, instructor at the Digital Art Academy, mentioned that one of my paintings reminded her of Klimt with all of the gold on it. I thought I should go further and created this piece. [...]

Winifred’s Paintings of Italy

winifredwhitfield — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:10:38 +0000

Among the most beautiful countries in the world. The world may not have needed my landscapes and portrait creations - but I created them anyway. I was there in 2008 and I am still selecting and painting images from that trip. I must say that the beautiful light Italy is known for hid itself during [...]

Resources I Believe In

winifredwhitfield — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:15:19 +0000

I use these products – I believe in them. Corel Painter Brushes: Skip Allen Paints – AWESOME PAINTER BRUSHES to DOWNLOAD FREE, lots of tutorials and other industry info. Sign up t0 receive his BLOG Skip Allens Gold Lef Brushes – Plus A must have – even if you don’t know it yet Karen Bonaker’s [...]

Concept Artist Inspired Image

winifredwhitfield — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:13:41 +0000

Allow Your Creativity to Soar This was my painting yesterday. Where does it all come from! I like it. It’s fun. Actually I was inspired by some of the concept artist – illustrators who design for games and other animation. This was my twist on it. Can you believe even that the necklace was painted. [...]

Creativity with Nik Software

winifredwhitfield — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 05:02:16 +0000

When I am working on a photograph or when I know I am going from a photograph to a painting, I have a very definite workflow which includes NIK software. I find this first image – warm and loving. Nik Color Effect’s filter Dynamic Skin Softener has been applied. We could stop there – but [...]

Winifred’s Ladies in the Parlor

winifredwhitfield — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:21:40 +0000

Make Some Marks For some reason – this piece makes me thing I am looking into a doll house. Probably the colors, the fact that a room was created, their doll like figures all contribute to this. Did I have this in mind when I started – indeed not. I just started. Open a blank [...]