http://blog.paintercreations.com Featuring The Art of Janet M Garcia Sun, 02 Mar 2008 05:43:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en No matter how many portraits for painting you are going to be using for a particular subject, you will need to make sure that you have enough perspective for your painting. Having reference photos in portrait painting is important, and you should take into consideration a few things for your ... http://blog.paintercreations.com/portrait-painting/the-importance-of-reference-photos-in-portrait-painting/ I just finished compiling an Oil, Acrylics, and Drawing Video Compilations sites. Now you can watch the artists painting with oils or acrylics, and drawing without having to search around for them. Here are the links to the sites: Oil Painting Video Compilation: http://paintercreations.com/oil-painting-videos/ Acrylic Painting Video Compilation: http://paintercreations.com/acrylic-painting-videos/ Drawing Video Compilation: http://paintercreations.com/drawing-videos/ http://blog.paintercreations.com/oil-painting/oil-painting-videos/ I am exited because I just put together two sites, one for Painter videos and the other for Photoshop videos compiled in one place.  At each site, you will find  information about each video and a link so that you can add any of the videos to your site. These are their address: For Painter ... http://blog.paintercreations.com/corel-painter/painting-videos/ It's been an exciting year and I have great plans for this new upcoming year 2008. I am now offering Digital Painting training with Corel Painter LIVE! Yes, live training is now possible. I am offering one on one training, or group training in both English and Spanish.  If you are interested in ... http://blog.paintercreations.com/corel-painter/corel-painter-online-live-training/ For the first time, I've been trying water-mixable oils. I chose Holbein's Duo Aqua Oils just because I purchased a set instead of choosing colors individually since it was a test. I was surprised that when these oils were mixed with just a small amount of water, they get really fluid, ... http://blog.paintercreations.com/oil-painting/watermixable-oils/ I finally managed to move my journal to it's own domain but couldn't export the comments from my old blog in order to import them here. So they had to be added one by one. Oh well, feel free to comment here then. I get to export everything from my blog ... http://blog.paintercreations.com/blog-hosting/move-blog-lost-comments/ It's been a while since I last updated my blog. I've been so busy. I am excited because I finally put together my new online learning center where artist and aspiring artist can learn about traditional and digital painting. It takes a considerable amount of time to put together each ... http://blog.paintercreations.com/training/painting-projects/ Solitude II DVD Digital Painting Video Demonstration has just been released! 2 DVD Set - 4 Hours of Video In this video, you will see how you can achieve the look of traditional painting using Painter program. My approach of painting digitally is similar to how I paint traditionally. I apply all ... http://blog.paintercreations.com/oil-painting/digital-oils-video-demonstration/ I've been working with pyrography. Pyrography is the art of burning. I combined Prismacolor pencils with the burning of the wolf. Burning the colored pencil marks will set the color on the wood. This project took several hours to complete. I did this project while following a great instructional DVD set ... http://blog.paintercreations.com/pyrography/wolf-pyrography-project/ This is one of my new pieces of art. I started by drawing the portrait on a piece of paper. Then I redraw the portrait on a Tagua nut. The Tagua nut is a renewable rainforest crop used in place of ivory, thus called Vegetable Ivory.  The Tagua Nut is the ... http://blog.paintercreations.com/pyrography/tagua-nut-pyrogaphy/