{"id":30,"date":"2008-01-22T22:53:49","date_gmt":"2008-01-23T06:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/22\/corel-painter-ix5\/"},"modified":"2010-05-25T14:53:40","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T22:53:40","slug":"corel-painter-ix5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/22\/corel-painter-ix5\/","title":{"rendered":"Corel Painter IX.5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I use Corel Painter 7 and IX.5 along with a Wacom pressure sensitive tablet when creating my digital paintings. My first Metacreations Painter 6.0 was a Christmas gift from my husband.<\/p>\n<p>He handed me a pretty packaged paint bucket  and said Merry Christmas! When I learned  it was a digital painting program, I was skeptical that I would actually use it.<\/p>\n<p>I have been hooked ever since. I love it! I can paint to my hearts content, no mess, no cleanup, and no chemicals. Best of all, I have an endless supply of canvases.<\/p>\n<p>The only drawback is a steep learning curve, I finally had to  take some classes to be able to really work with it. Other than that it&#8217;s been a great journey.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a digital work in progress. First I made a sketch, then scanned it and moved it into Painter. I began developing the fairy woman&#8217;s face, hair and  the background.<\/p>\n<p>This is a rough first draft of the painting, and I decided to call  it <strong>Shaylee. <\/strong>A Celtic\/Gaelic word meaning fairy princess of the field.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/celticspirit1.JPG\" alt=\"Shaylee\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong> Shaylee  (c) 2008<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Gay are the hills with song: earth&#8217;s faery children leave,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>More dim abodes to roam the primrose &#8211; hearted eve. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> A. E.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I use Corel Painter 7 and IX.5 along with a Wacom pressure sensitive tablet when creating my digital paintings. My first Metacreations Painter 6.0 was a Christmas gift from my husband. He handed me a pretty packaged paint bucket and said Merry Christmas! When I learned it was a digital painting program, I was skeptical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2660,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/2660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rosearizmendi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}