Linda's artwork

[Linda and "Toby"]

I'll post new pieces here as I paint them. I hope others will do the same and start their own threads in the Art Cafe! :)
 

[F, Calla & Luca]

These are both terrific Linda.

[Linda and "Toby"]

Thank you, F! :) 

[Lynda Kamrath]

Love the color on the little girl.  Great job, as usual.  Charlie says you are amazing.

[Linda and "Toby"]

Thank you Lynda

[Linda, Charlie Brown and Beau]

Both of these are absolutely beautiful.  You do such an amazing job on eyes!

[Linda and "Toby"]

Thank you, Linda! :)

[Jane, Guinness and Murphy]

Linda, do you remember what brush(es) you used on the little girl's portrait.  I love the soft, subtle background, and I have trouble achieving that in painter.  You do such a great job with lighting...perfect shadowing.

[Linda and "Toby"]

Hi Jane,
I typically find an image that has the values and colors I want to use, then "mish-mash" it all up in Corel Painter using a combination of old (Jeremy Sutton, John Derry, Richard Ramsey) brushes that I purchased several years ago, along with some custom brushes that I've created. I just sort randomly grab different brushes depending on the look/feel I'm trying to achieve. (My process is very loose and unstructured.) Then I bring it into Photoshop and tweak it further - adjust the hue, contrast and vibrance, and sharpen/soften here and there using layer masks.

[Linda and "Toby"]

I stretched my creative wings in Corel Painter 2015 today. Usually I use one or more reference photos. Today I did a piece completely from scratch. Oh my gosh, had SOOOOOOO MUCH FUN!!! 

Here's the finished piece: 

I'll took a few screenshots along the way. As you can see, I started out in a completely different direction... lol! 

I couldn't think of what to do after this, so I kept the sun and birds and sky and then went in a completely different direction. 

Once I got it to this point, it was starting to grow on me...

I decided to add more brush/bushes... The next thing I knew, they were tumbling out of the painting, which I loved. But, then I kind of got carried away...

So, I took some of them back out by combining those two layers and using a layer mask to remove some of them.

Then I cropped the image and made the colors pop more by sharpening it and increasing the contrast. 

For fun, I wrote my name in Japanese (I'm half Japanese, by the way) and put a little box around it. 

I can hardly wait to do another one!

[F, Calla & Luca]

This is wonderful and I am so glad you had fun doing it. I love the foreground flowing or growing out of the frame. It is so creative!

[Linda and "Toby"]

Thank you, F!  I'm looking forward to exploring a bunch of different styles. :) 

[Jane, Guinness and Murphy]

Linda, this is awesome!  I love this color palette and how the painting "overflows".  I also love your individual "chop".  Painter is so much fun!