Winifred's Portrait & Fine Art Gallery

Winifred Whitfield Turns Photographs to Paintings

winifredwhitfield — Fri, 11 May 2012 00:43:25 +0000

Photographs often serve as my inspiration, but I love creating portrait and fine art paintings. Whether the photograph is taped on on a wall to view or exist as an underlying layer in Corel Painter, my mission is to go beyond – far beyond the photograph which inspires me to create a painting. The following [...]

Corel Painter 12.1 – All About Color Sets

winifredwhitfield — Mon, 07 May 2012 02:58:14 +0000

Use color sets to select a single color or select all the colors in a color set to paint with. Create custom color sets, add new color sets fron Corel Painter Extra Content. Modify a color set. Add or delete from view color sets. This video will show you how. I created a custom color [...]

Corel Painter 12.1 Tutorial – Creating Multi Color Brush Strokes

winifredwhitfield — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:18:36 +0000

Multi color brush strokes add to the richness of this painting. Create multiple colors in your brush strokes by: 1) varying hue, saturation and value (HSV), 2) select color from a gradient or, 3) select color from an entire color set. I am sure you will enjoy creating more colorful and expressive brush strokes. The [...]

Corel Painter 12.1 Tutorials – Creating Painter LOOKS

winifredwhitfield — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:04:39 +0000

It is easy to create custom and accessible brush and texture combinations called “LOOKS” in Corel Painter 12.1 I have created a custom “splatter look” with a specific brush and paper to simulate the look spattered paint in the image below. I can now apply this”spatter” effect to any image with just the click of [...]

Corel Painter 12.1 – Painting Dancers

winifredwhitfield — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:00:44 +0000

Painting Dancers I love painting dancers though I have not created many such paintings. I am changing this. I enjoyed painting the variations below in Corel Painter 12.1. Watch the video to see how I create the four variations of this painting. Unfortunately, there is not enough time in the 15 minutes to demonstrate the [...]

Corel Painter 12.1 – Creating a Sketch

winifredwhitfield — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 09:34:09 +0000

Creating s sketch of your subject allows for additional creativity and expression in your painting. A sketch in itself might become a finished work of art. Learn to sketch by hand. This video will inspire you to do so. Below is the final painting.

Playtime Again

winifredwhitfield — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 11:50:27 +0000

By now you likely know the importance I find in just playing,” doodling” sometimes I call it. Just put that brush to canvas and see where it takes you. That is how the following painting was born. I was continuing to explore the Real Camelhair brush variant in the Oil Category of Corel Painter which [...]

From Photo to Painting

winifredwhitfield — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:13:14 +0000

As you know, I derive great pleasure in taking a photo which appeals to me and making it a painting. To the extent you can visual the final Painting – or at least come close, you are all the better for it. Your workflow and process will go more smoothly. I was fascinated by this [...]

Spring in New York

winifredwhitfield — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:17:19 +0000

Spring 2012 I don’t know when New York has had a winter such as the one past. There was a freaky heavy snow this past Halloween. I was in town at that time as well. I found the beauty but was not inconvenienced by it. Back again, to experience an early full blown sun lit [...]

The Old With The New

winifredwhitfield — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:08:48 +0000

To create this painting I use the architecture from Bologna which I photographed in 2008 and horse and buggy images photographed in New York Central Park in 2012 as reference images. Paying critical attention to perspective this painting was created. Additional characters were included via imagination along with the tree and little birds. In Central [...]