Sometimes an idea doesn’t come in a flash. In this case it took years. It can happen to you, too. You just have to be patient.
I recently did a painting for a friend. He and his wife recently moved into a new home and asked if I would do a painting for them. He had a photo he taken of a tree he always saw when he was going to and from college in southeastern Kansas. This video details the process I used to create the final digital painting done in Corel Painter 2021 using my Emergence brushes.
Recent landscape painting using Emergence for textured areas.
This is a second piece using Emergence to create the abstract brushwork that is contained by the various shapes within the composition. I’m playing with the contrast of the underlying abstract brushwork with the sharp edges that contain the shapes.
I have many shots of turn-of-the-century Commercial style architectural elements to use as a resource. I am going to create a series of these paintings which should look good as a group.
Portland Fish Market
San Francisco-based artist Jeremy Sutton and long-time Painter instructor has been using Emergence lately (see the above image). Jeremy has asked if I’d demo the brushes for his PaintboxTV members.
I will be demonstrating my Emergence brushes on Jeremy’s PainterLab, a feature of his Paintboxtv website. PainterLab is an informal monthly virtual Q & A session, open to all current PaintboxTV Premium Members, where you can get help with your technical and artistic questions, feedback and advice on projects, learn more about Painter and pick up useful tips and techniques. You need to be a current member at the time of the PainterLab – it is included in a PaintboxTV Premium Member subscription.
If you are not a Paintbox TV subscriber, don’t worry. I will be creating an instructional video that essentially covers the same content. I’ll be posting it after the November 19th PainterLab demo.
Writer and artist L.A. James has created Artistic Journeys: Insights from Digital Artists Around the World, a unique series of interviews with a range of digital artists, exploring their backgrounds and what makes them tick. The series will cover an artist a month through August 2020. I am honored to be the subject of this month’s interview. You can read the interview here.
John Derry
