Digital Painting Workshops and Thoughts
Think back to when you learned Photoshop. All the learning online was so much easier after a hands on class with personal feedback. I am a real believer in take a class and then the information and tutorials online will make so much more sense.
We have an awesome and reasonably priced learning experience in a beautiful location this July. Two Days of Beginner Painter in Asheville, NC.
I should tell you all that the workshops are going to include not just Painter X but some other cool software as well that we either have demos of or have 30 day free downloads. So this is an intensive Digital Painting Workshop learning how to pull it all together and get a grasp on it.
Finishing my new book has brought so many new ideas to mind and formulated some new techniques. It’s actually getting easier to teach you all than harder!
Below is a “leaky pen” landscape. You can see the close up how it splats and rolls. When this is printed and paints added to it, it will become a full three dimensional multi media print. I will explore adding other textures to it also from Golden products.
Learning Painter X is no longer a cut and dried software learning experience. It’s a full throttle immersion into art and creativity and exploring how far to push it.
Traditional portraits are getting easier to create and be more original in painting them. Emulating another style is good for a lesson but then we want to take you far beyond that into a whole new world of selling your personal style to your clients and to the world.
We truly expect our Asheville Workshops to give everyone far more for the few days experience than just learning the software.
Come have fun and let your mind open to the possibilities!
April 20th, 2008 at 8:52 am
I am so excited, I just signed up for the 5-day Niagara Falls workshop (and told my DH that I would not be going on the family vacation). I hope you aren’t saying to wait for the workshop until we play and visit online tutorials, because I’m not sure I will be able to wait until August!
eirdre
April 20th, 2008 at 9:09 am
Congrats Deirdre on signing up at one of my favorite schools! I love Niagara in the summer and we are going to have to wait to play together for a week. But you can play all you want on your own! Do you already use Painter? Send me some of what you are doing and what you want to learn in class!
Good to meet you here.
Marilyn
April 22nd, 2008 at 7:28 am
I’ve posted my first canvas painting on my blog yesterday. This morning I also posted a few color studies. I’ve only started playing and have been first using the auto-painting to get the majority of the brushstrokes in. I’m guessing as I am more comfortable i will be doing more of my own work from the beginning.
I’m very happy with the way the painting of my daughter came out. I don’t think I’m done with it yet, I still want to add some paint and glaze to it.
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April 24th, 2008 at 11:37 am
Actually, the auto painting is incredibly powerful and there are many ways to use it to get your paintings started and then work on the details after that. You will be more comfortable after the workshop and having worked in Painter hands on. Then you will see how addicting creating digital art is!
Marilyn
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:43 pm
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