Changing painter settings for QPixmap

[spagatoni]

I keep getting an unhandled exception when I do the following:

QPixmap p;

p = new QPixMap(600, 2500);

// crashes out on the set...will also crash out on anything tied to the painter.
p->paintEngine()->painter()->setPen(Qt::blue);

I figure I am doing a horribly novice mistake here so any help would be awesome.

Thanks for your time,
Jon Jones