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The great Pablo Picasso showed us how to combine a number of different viewpoints and distil

complicated forms into simple geometry. We show you how to do the same in Painter

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“Corel Painter X is the ideal tool to re-create this

remarkable school of painting, giving us all the tools

required to pay homage to the great man himself

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The

importance

of study

It’s a good idea before

you start this project to

take your time to study

Picasso’s work. Simply

Google search Picasso

and Cubism and you’ll

find a wealth of images.

Take your time to

study the shapes in the

paintings, and look at

the way he flattened

out perspective within

the head. It’s even

worth making a couple

of sketches from the

paintings to help you

understand better the

geometric devices he

often included again

and again.

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and skew

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Fun with

Picasso

If you feel like a little

Cubist fun before you

get down to the real

business of painting,

point your browser to

www.mrpicassohead.

com/create.html.

This is a Picasso

based, pick-and-mix

style Cubist exercise

where you can

make a face up from

common components

used in the great

man’s portraits. You

can choose each

component, scale and

position them, and

choose various fills.

Cubism doesn’t have to

be serious!

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Multiple perspectives

Paul Cezanne explains that, “Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone

and the cylinder”. This was something that Picasso was very conscious of during his Cubist

experiments. The vital point to remember when dealing with Cubist imagery is the use of many

different points of perspective that are used in the depiction of a single object or scene. You

may find it useful to take photographs of your subject from many different angles, and then

take parts from each image to draw from. Your mind will try to introduce some perspective

as you draw, so it’s easier to start with very basic shapes. It’s all about distillation; reducing

complicated components to their very simplest geometric forms.

Simple geometric shapes

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Paint

matters

Unusually for a tutorial

in Painter, you’ll

notice that we haven’t

mentioned much about

specific brushes or

painting techniques.

That’s because in terms

of Cubism, the way the

paint is applied is fairly

unimportant. Although

Impasto plays a big

role here, we don’t

need to concentrate

on blending colour and

careful tone modelling.

Add colour and build solidity in your painting

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Individual voice

Creating unique artwork

The bedrock that the Cubist movement was built upon

was that, regardless of subject, the painting should

work in its own right as a piece of art. This depended

very much on pattern, shape and colour, which is why

the actual surface plane of a Cubist portrait plays such a

vital role in its success. It can be difficult for a figurative

artist to see in such abstract terms, but that’s exactly

what Picasso was doing here. First and foremost, the

shapes and colours in this portrait should please and

interest the viewer’s eye. As a result of this, every

now and then it’s worth flipping your painting by 180

degrees so you’re not distracted by your eye creating

a conventional portrait from the shapes. Picasso was

searching during these years for a release from the

accepted ways of expressing the world around him. Here

are the shapes from a famous Picasso portrait, showing

the decorative quality of the pure geometry.

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Get used to rotating your artwork so you

can see it as shapes, rather than a face. Any

realism will ruin your Cubist quest!

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On the

surface

Take your time to

experiment by using

different surfaces

to paint on for this

project. By carefully

selecting a different

paper from the Papers

Selector, you can make

the surface of the paint

look very different and

introduce lots of nice

textures. The Grain

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Put the finishing touches to your Picasso painting

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Tutorial Paint like Monet

Artist

Time needed

Skill level

On the CD

Tim Shelbourne

4 hours

Intermediate

Start file

Tutorial info

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Digital

Painting

The complete guide to

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First create a sketch to guide you, then begin to establish the overall tonal values and underpainting

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Monet’s

colours

You may like to mix the

colours you use from

Monet’s own palette

of colours. These are

available in a Painter

colour set. Hit the

small arrow at the

top right of the Color

Set’s palette. Choose

Open Color Set. From

the available colour

sets choose Artists’

Oil Colors. Click the

small arrow again

and choose Display

Name. Here is Monet’s

palette: Titanium

White, Cadmium

Yellow Light, Cadmium

Yellow, Viridian Green,

Emerald Green, French

Ultramarine, Cobalt

Blue, Alizarin Crimson

and Vermillion.

Mixing

colours

To mix colours from

the Monet palette,

in the Mixer palette

choose the Apply Color

brush. Now click the

appropriate colour

from the colour set

and brush a little onto

the Mixer Pad. Mix in

your next colour in

the same way. To mix

two colours placed

closely together, use

the Mix Color tool in

the Mixer palette.

To choose a colour

to paint with from

your mixed colours,

use the Sample Color

Eyedropper from

the Mixer.

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