"Ornate Firebird" Digital Collage - Corel PhotoPaint - Plus

Ornate Firebird

A short post today. I used Mayang's Texture for the background. I auto painted it using Detailed Watercolor in Corel Painter Photo Essentials 4.

I browsed my Dover Clip Art and selected the pieces of color and the musical instruments. I created a composition of them and saved the large file. I did the Digital Collage work in Corel PhotoPaint.

I like the illusion of a Firebird that is the main focus of the piece. I opened with Corel PSP Pro X3 and added the ornate frame, saving that iteration. Then I resized for display.

Listening --- Emerson, Lake and Palmer --- Lucky Man

"Guitar Player 3" Digital Collage - Corel PhotoPaint - Plus

Guitar Player 3

As with other backgrounds I have used lately I started with a colorful Mayang's Texture. I opened with Corel Painter Photo Essentials 4 and again applied the Impressionistic auto paint.

I saved this large file and opened Picasa 3.9. I searched for another Guitar Player image I could scan in and found one. I opened Corel PhotoPaint and scanned it in. Using Little Ink Pot's Thredgeholder I made it like a Ink Sketch halftone. I copied to the clipboard and pasted, erasing unwanted background from it.

I enlarged the Guitar Player to almost fill the image. In Picasa 3.9 I found a circle of multiple guitars and added it with copy and paste. I used the property Subtract for transparency. I also scanned in a grid of a chord progression and turned it on its side for the length of the image. I used the property Multiply for transparency.

I took one of my Jim Dunlop guitar picks and scanned it in and pasted the image onto the piece. I used the property Invert and erased around the pick. I added my signature and saved the large iteration. I added a Desert Blue 40 pixel border, saved again then resampled for display.

Listening --- Kirk Mathew Gatzka - I Love You So Much

"Vintage Stamp Collecting Publications" Digital Collage - Corel PhotoPaint

Vintage Stamp Collecting Publications

Along with my Cigar Box Collection of Vintage stamps I found some publications from the 1950's. I first created a colorful background from my Mayang's Textures folder, auto painting it in Corel Painter Photo Essentials 4, saving the large file iteration.

I then browsed to it in Picasa 3.9 and opened with Corel PhotoPaint. I then took three Stamp collecting publications and scanned them in. I copied to the clipboard and pasted onto the colorful background. I used the property Subtract on the Mystic Stamp Company piece. I used Multiply on the listing of stamps. And Color Burn for the Stamp Finder from H.E. Harris Co.

Mystic Stamp Company still exists online and has a very good website. I could not locate the Harris Company, though it may exist under a different name now.

I placed the pieces in such a way that one can read them and look at the vintage stamps I placed on an angle.

I kept the number of pieces on the background few so more detail could show through. I saved the large iteration with my signature then resampled for display.

Listening --- Kirk Mathew Gatzka --- Can't Get Enough of You

"Guitar Player 2" Grunge Digital Collage - Corel PhotoPaint - Plus

Guitar Player 2

I browsed in Picasa 3.9 to my Mayang's Textures folder and selected a Rust background. I opened with Corel Painter Photo Essentials 4 and used the Impressionistic auto paint, Random Brushstrokes set at Splat 60% size and amount. I used the Coarse Canvas setting for the canvas.

I saved that large iteration. Back in Picasa I went to my Dover Clip Art folder for a music clip, copied and pasted it onto the image in Corel PhotoPaint. I scanned in a Guitar Player in Paint.NET and used Blur Smooth on it then applied the Ink Sketch tool for the pen and ink appearance. I copied that, closing Paint.NET Then pasted, and erased the unwanted portions of the surroundings. This gave me the Guitar Player Ink sketch. I applied the property Color Burn for a brown look and feel, as I had with the music.

I added some DADGAD Chords from another document I have on DADGAD Tuning for Guitar.

I merged them all with the background. I applied the Tone Curve to give the color some depth, still in PhotoPaint. I applied Filter Forge's Photo Effects Grunge for a light grunge touch to the image. Using Filter Forge's Frames I gave the piece a slight watercolor frame. Then using Image, Papersize I added a 40 pixel brown border. Adding my signature with Color Burn to keep the brownish look and feel I saved that iteration. Then I resampled for display.

Listening --- Acoustic Junction --- Strange Days

"Guitar Player" Digital Collage - Corel PhotoPaint - Plus

Guitar Player

Starting with a photograph of eucalyptus bark I opened with Corel Painter Photo Essentials 4 and again applied the Impressionistic auto paint.  I saved that large file. In Picasa 3.9, I browsed for the Guitar Player photograph and opened that with Paint.NET and applied the Ink Sketch tool to it. I also cropped it to fit the lower bottom of the background.

I used some Dover Clip Art of music and the 4/4 time notes and Staff Symbol, enlarging them to 300 dpi. I applied the property Color Burn to all these pieces as I placed them in the composition.

I found some guitar chord diagrams and copied and pasted them from another document. I resized them and used the property Invert. Then I reduced their opacity making them semi transparent.

I merged all to the background and saved that file iteration. I resampled the file for display and saved again.

Listening --- Wings --- Band on the Run