Learn Corel Painter with Heather

05/12/2025

GHOST PAINTING l Transform your images into painterly heirlooms without adding hours to your workflow. Whether you need classical refinement or alla prima contemporary realism, my ghost painting brings cohesion, softness, and the tactile presence of real paint.

Photographers: now accepting 2026 commissions for art-driven studio work.

https://www.heatherthepainter.com/ghost-painting

01/12/2025

These original organic textures are retiring after over a decade of gorgeous editing possibilities! Download them for only $44.25 before they retire at the end of December!

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28/11/2025

In digital programs like Photoshop, ProCreate, Rebelle, and Corel Painter there are innumerable ways to use painterly textures! I've written on some unusual methods (without fully painting your portraits) in my blog!

Here's a quick hack using Adobe Photoshop and Heather's Alla Prima ll textures with a digital photographic edit and ZERO painting in three final layers. Easy peasie.

28/11/2025

A free Christmas background for you—hand-painted and available for a limited time.
Real oil paint, real texture, and a reminder of the Light we’re celebrating.

Download link in the comments.

28/11/2025

These early Alla Prima backgrounds have been with me for over a decade, and it’s time to let them rest. I’m offering them at a deeply discounted price for one week as a little send-off before they officially retire.
https://www.heatherthepainter.com/offers/zYoKBsJQ/checkout?coupon_code=CREATE25

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05/09/2025

Here it is — the full collection at a glance.

31 extraordinarily long, fully re-painted backdrops, each painted at monumental scale (up to 10,000px on the long edge) for unmatched versatility.

Every backdrop in this set is more than scenery. Each one is a re-imagining — built with painterly depth and brush cadence so you can crop wide, tall, or square without losing detail.

From sweeping cinematic frames to intimate portraits, this collection gives you endless compositions, timeless tones, and a collector’s toolbox worthy of your studio.

✨ Launch Week Special: Save 25% with code FALL25

👉 Shop the Collection:

https://www.heatherthepainter.com/offers/VzzXJonX/checkout

05/09/2025

The Pastoral Landscapes Collection Has Arrived

31 extraordinarily long backdrops — each one fully re-painted at monumental scale (up to 10,000px on the long edge). These aren’t wallpaper enlargements or AI filters, but true re-imaginings, brushstroke by brushstroke.

The result? Backdrops that are versatile enough to crop wide, tall, or square without losing painterly depth. Perfect for portraits, composites, and fine art editing.

This week only, save 25% with code FALL25.

Shop the Collection >>>> https://www.heatherthepainter.com/offers/VzzXJonX/checkout

05/09/2025

Did you know that Painter gives you the flexibility of seeing your texture, moving it, and saving it's placement on your document? To piggy back on that, did you also know that there are TWO layered "textures" in Painter (2021 and newer)?

23/08/2025

Did you know Painter doesn't like to stay open when not in use? She prefers her beauty sleep, so shut her down when you're done for the day.

23/08/2025

One of the biggest challenges in digital painting and compositing is making the background and subject feel like they belong in the same world. It’s not just about cutting and pasting—it’s about matching the way light falls off, the way tones balance between the subject AND the background, and the way atmosphere feels. There are subtle subconscious cues you weave between the space to bring it all together.

That’s exactly why I design my painterly backdrops the way I do. They’re built with studio light logic in mind.

I grew up in a portrait studio—by age seven I was holding light stands and watching how softboxes changed the shape of a face. Light patterns became second nature. When I started painting backdrops, I carried those lessons forward: how the Old Masters leaned on neutral or tweaked greens and olives, how warm undertones keep portraits from looking flat, how depth is always built in layers.

The Pastoral Landscapes – Artist’s Proof is my newest release: a limited set of 3 painterly backdrops (3000px square), cropped versions you can drop into Photoshop right now. They’re directly inspired by Thomas Barker’s romantic landscapes—every single one starting with real paint, canvas, and brushwork. No AI shortcuts, just the cadence of a human hand.

Available for 30 days only. $29 for the complete Artist’s Proof set.
Link in comments.

(Shown here: bottom half is the original studio capture, top half with the new Artist’s Proof backdrop dropped in using Photoshop.)