This tutorial gives you an overview of the basic steps involved with working from a photograph in Corel Painter 8. In this case, the finished painting emulates a chalky oil pastel with a touch of oil paint brush strokes. You can apply the procedure described here with different brushes and create almost any style of artwork that interests you. When referring to keyboard shortcuts, we quote first the Macintosh shortcut followed by the Windows shortcut (for example Option/Alt).