Creating with Sumi-e - Corel Painter 8 Tutorial

Jacquelin Vanderwood  September 15, 2003 1 You're probably wondering what you can do with the Sumi-e brush. Let's find out. 2 Start with a semi light gray background. Go ahead and select a medium blue.   3 Lay in a foreground area as shown below.   4 With white as the color selected, choose the Flat Sumi-e 30 brush and lay in the sky area.   5 Reduce opacity 24% and brush in the rest of the sky.   6 With a medium dark gray lay in the line as I have done.   7 Change colors and brushes, reduce opacity to 34% and lay in a water. Rotate the canvas if necessary.   8 Same color-different brush, create waves.   9 At a 26% opacity and a bright yellow selected, add a sun.   10 With a Flat Wet Sumi-e 20 brush set at 13% opacity and 100% white, roll the brush around the sun.   11 Select black and the Dry Ink brush and add a tree trunk.   12 Add some more branches with the Variable Thin Sumi-e 40 brush.   13 Lay in the leaves and reflective part of the tree.   14 Using the Coarse Bristle Sumi-e create a person in black. With the Bristle Sumi-e 12 paint in the shadow of the man, add rows which appear to look like a field.   15 After adding a title the piece is now complete.     Copyright 2003, Jacquelin Vanderwood, All Rights Reserved