My second Corel Painter / Wacom Cintique project: a Typhoon in invasion markings from a desktop image of a painting I had lying around. I don't know who the original was by but it inspired me and gave me a solution to work with, even if the site I downloaded it from had confused the Typhoon with a Spitfire - but that's another story.

 

I haven't worked out (read the instructions) for drawing paths with a stroke, so it's shaky but as an introduction to 3 basic brushes and using layers it's proven very useful. And it's been great fun! 

 

Ordinarily I use vector graphics (PowerPoint and Illustrator, for example) for illustrations drawn with a mouse, so drawing with a stylus and 'paint' directly onto the screen is a new freedom. And best of all, I get to play with acrylics, markers, and crayons without making a mess on the carpet or staining my lips :)

I'm no landscape artist so the greatest struggle by far was to paint the sky. Luckily I had committed it to a layer so I could iterate through a sad trail of gloopy backdrops until I arrived at something akin to the dramatic evening skies I witnessed when commuting weekly by air to and from Dublin.

 

For my first finished project I am quite pleased and I'm eager to kick off some more only this time at a larger scale so I can paint at a greater scale. Using 2px brushes was frustrating with a 'textured paper' and the obvious aliasing.

 

It probably needs a name - everyone gives a name to their paintings? Perhaps, in memory of my Friday evening skips across the Irish sea aboard a 'bomber' it should be called, "Home Time"?