It is the time of year to paint with Silver and Gold and you can do it in Corel Painter 12! One of my favorite natural media projects is embellishing my prints with Gold-leaf appliqué. Layering gold leaf over a surface is called gold leafing or gilding. We can enjoy the same brilliant look of gold-leaf in Painter using the Color Variability tool.
Color Variability
Color variability allows you to create brushstrokes of more than one color. Color variability can be set for HSV or RGB mode, and it can be based on the current gradient or color set. For Gold-leaf painting we want to take advantage of the Current Gradient setting. To display the Color Variability panel
Choose Window > Brush Control Panels> Color Variability.
Let’s take a look at how to set color variability based on the current gradient .
In the Color panel, choose a main color.
- Choose Window Brush Control Panels Color Variability.
- Choose “From Gradient” from the list box.
Color variability is now based on random colors from the current gradient. But there is more to creating that lovely metallic look of gold and sliver. The secret lies in the Gradient and your selected Paper texture. In combination they make a beautiful pair!
You can get started with gold-leafing with one of the default Gradients called Light Streak. Light Steak imparts a radiant gold look to your image or selection.
Gradients along with paper textures are the recipe for this lovely affect in ©Corel Painter. So get on over to Skip Allen Paints and check out how to use brushes and gradients to create some wonderful paintings! In the examples above I used a custom gradient along with Messy paper and the wonderful SA Impasto 10-M-N brush variant from Skip Allen’s Bristly Dabs brush category.
You will want to experiment with all kinds of brushes, that is part of the fun with this process.
Pull out some of your old paintings just like Winifred did for this lovely image she created in our current Holiday Open Studio at Digital Art Academy. Notice how she applied the gold-leaf to embellish the painting.
Happy Christmas and a Very Merry New Year!
This painting was done from a stained glass window which I added gold-leaf paint to for a highly textured appearance.
Victor Lund-Rotcliffe’s version of the Leonardo cartoon of Virgin and Child sketched on a plaster wall and some remnants of gold leaf or gold paint showing through. Another extraordinary use of gold-leaf painting with Painter.
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