Built up Textures - Design for Life Series - Painter - CorelDRAW

I started today's image in Corel Painter 11, I selected custom textures and some from Flaming Pear. I used the Variable Chalk brush and painted the textures, overlapping and created an 8" x 10" image.

I saved that image as a jpg and opened it in CorelDRAW. There I placed the text using Arial Rounded Bold. I extruded the text by 3 and that gave it some depth.

I added the quote from Will Rogers and balanced that with the "Design," text. I converted to bitmap and reopened in PhotoPaint as a 300dpi image.

Here I used the Tone Curve for depth and increased the saturation for a color boost.

Using Filter Forge's frames I added a film frame. I added my signature to complete the piece.

I am not certain how many more of the Design for Life series I am going to do. I did some Art Deco and Art Nouveau pieces. This one is more up to date image of the same theme.

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Listening --- Kirk Mathew Gatzka --- Time