The Grainery - Dover Clip Art - Painter 11

A short post today, another Dover Publications woodcut painted in Painter 11. I opened in PhotoPaint and increased the working size of the image and saved it.

I reopened in Painter 11 and used some of Skip's Watercolors and then Karen's Watercolors from the Painter Talk forum. I tried to keep with a earth-tone color scheme and only vacillated from that a little for contrasts.





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Damsel and Knight - Painter 11 - PhotoPaint

"Damsel and Knight," is based on a Dover Publications ink print from the sampler collection that I have. I opened the image in PhotoPaint and increased it by resampling at 96dpi. I saved that as a work file.

Opening in Painter 11 I used Karen's Watercolors brush to paint the majority of the details. I did use the tinting brushes for the background and a cloud brush for the sky. I did append more colors to the base color palette for a wider selection of them.

Again I did not draw this scene - it comes from Dover Publications email samplers. Go to their site and sign up for them.

I took the image into PhotoPaint again to use the wand tool on the white frame and filed it with a sky picture. I had the rest of the image masked off, so I applied Effects> Texture> Plaster> to the sky I had added as a frame. Then I made a black 40 pixel border for the entire image.

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Tower and Arches - Watercolors - Painter 11 - PhotoPaint

I have more time today to paint, so I selected this image of a tower and arches from browsing in Picasa 3. I opened with PhotoPaint and enlarged it using the Image> Resampling>. Then I applied Local Equalization to it to lighten the whole image. I saved that file.

In Picasa 3 I next opened with Painter 11 and did a quick clone of the piece. I selected the Watercolor brushes, the Fine, Wash and Run brushes and began painting. I used the soft cloner brush to add back in a few details like the bricks and plants. I went to Apply Surface Texture and selected Paper and adjusted the paper to add Texture.

Saving that as a jpg, I reopened it in PhotoPaint and adjusted the depth with the Tone Curve slightly. I added a border to the piece and then used Filter Forge for the frame, adjusting the round corners, and the second color to an golden ocher.

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Digital Collage - Mayang's Textures - Dover Clip Art

Today I decided to do a digital collage. I looked through my folder of Mayang's Texture in Picasa 3 and opened the one I selected in PhotoPaint.

I looked through my collections of Dover Publications Clip Art samplers and gathered together the images you see in the collage. I used a King and castle image entitled the Idylls of the King - Enid, and also selected an Art Nouveau frame. Then I placed a coat of arms piece in the top oval. I used a modern Op Art circular piece and applied Effects> Texture> Plastic> to it before I used the object property Multiply on it as I had the other black and white pieces of clip art. I found a nice Art Nouveau corner piece and placed it in the opposite corners.

I used the Tone Curve to deepen the color of the background and upped the saturation for a bit more color. I finished the piece with a 10 pixel black border.

I really enjoy using Dover Publication's Clip Art for such digital collages and also Mayang's Textures as well. I want to thank them for allowing me to gather textures and clip art samplers from them to use in such images as today's.

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