Clara

Made in Corel Painter Lite; 8x10", 300 dpi; multiple brushes and blenders. No tracing or photo manipulation. I worked with the photo and painting side-by-side. This took several multi-hour sessions to complete, in part because it is a new program (came with my upgrade for Paint Shop Pro). I've never used the full Painter program, but this Lite version works more like Photoshop than my current favorite program, ArtRage 4, which behaves like real paint on the canvas.