Saturday January 15 2011 Four Hours

This is an exciting program I am giving at the SWPP convention in London next week. I am really looking forward to sharing at this program to help other photographers who are frustrated and stuck in a grind of high school seniors and weddings to find a way to make more money and also sell their images as fine art over and over again.

You don’t need to know much…..you can use many different programs and plug ins but the point is to DO IT! I think some are mistaking this four hour super class for a Corel Painter lesson and it’s not. It is much more than that! It’s about the entire journey of becoming who you want to be!

With over 25 years of experience as a studio owner and master portrait artist, I was silly to take a giant leap with my eyes closed and my mind open into the art world of painting. I still can’t draw a straight line,  do draw stick figure doodles and never had formal art training. Yet, my paintings (developed from photo reference) have hung in airports, won best of show and even  had a one woman and group shows in a very short time and are selling internationally. The finished original canvas paintings have form and texture that are all created with the simplest of acrylic paint products available worldwide.

I am going to show how easy it is to create these finished pieces of art and the magical road to selling them over and over and over creating new income flow that is pure profit. Create it once, sell it a thousand times over in multiple products and market to new collectors who then will become your studios new portrait clients also. Working it full circle will increase sales in all areas.

Sit in with me even if you never painted with a brush and never drew before. I have done all the research and created the information and details to take your studio into a new area of touchable art in simple terms and materials. This is a life changing time for photographers. This is a product that will put your studio above all others and have your clients talking about you as an artist.

Come to SWPP and REGISTER FOR THIS SUPER CLASS

You do NOT need anything but to take notes at this class. If you want to follow along in Painter or Photoshop that is fine, but it is NOT required!

Pssst…..Want to know a secret about Free Corel Painter brushes?

Here is a blog post on free corel painter brushes and how to install brushes.

A few of the Free Brushes being Used

FREE COREL PAINTER BRUSHES AND HOW TO INSTALL BRUSHES IN PAINTER

Hard to believe that so much time has passed since I wrote my last post but those of you on my newsletter emailing know that no dust has been settling under me. Been hard at work getting back to my art and life and preparing for the crazy month ahead of exciting travel and workshops and events. I’m off to Raleigh for the North Carolina State Convention for a few days to see old friends and make new ones and lay the groundwork for my October event in Blowing Rock. But before that there are all the Asheville Art Workshops and Italy and VEGAS BABY for WPPI. Instead of my telling you all about this and all the cool FREE Corel Painter brushes that are online now, I’ll just send you to the newsletter so you can get all the links,discounts and news yourself.  Check out Digital Art Events and Freebies including Digital Painting Beginner Workshops in Asheville,NC.

Hope to see some of you at the upcoming events and looking forward to this exciting year!

Been painting and painting and really enjoying myself again lost in the artwork. Here is a new painting done with some of my new brushes that are available for a FREE DOWNLOAD in the Digital Paint Shop. Just check out the FREEBIES area and find the Mar New Portrait brushes. How easy is that? Nothing better to play with than a set of Free Corel Painter Brushes is there?

JUST ADDED you can watch a video about the new brushes! VIDEO

These brushes all work in Painter X. Just be sure to load the CORRECT version for your system. MAC or PC. A BIG thank you to David Gell who I consider my Brush Genius and most helpful guru of brushes that helped to convert my new brushes to have them work in Painter X.
You can find more tutorials, free brushes and downloads at his website. THE BRUSH PORT Please visit his website and thank him for his help!

Marilyn Self Portrait Painting, originally uploaded by marilynsholin.

Was working on another one to use for new avatars and business cards and more and after three days of working on the other pose…trashed it to the “look at later” folder and started a totally different pose and painting and this one just flowed along easily. I am going to finish up some tweaks and details on it but wanted to get it out there to be seen!
Always remember that its okay to not finish if it’s not flowing…another day, another painting may just grab you and run!

Walking in the Clouds Painting, originally uploaded by marilynsholin.

I am getting back on my game and going back to my roots with colors in portrait paintings.This has been sitting in the “to be painted” folder for over a year and it just came together yesterday for me. I can’t wait to do another one!

Now online. Check out the discounts and deals and all about Digital Painting!

NEWSLETTER

Corel has made it really easy now to get all the “goodies” that come on the CD with Painter even if you purchased it as a download version.
Here you can download all content goodies to go with your Painter 11 program! It’s organized and includes more than you thought you would get.
DOWNLOAD HERE
Here you can download tons of goodies to add to your software. The FLEMISH BRUSH is in the brushes under Painter 5 category.

Heres a play example of the Flemish Brush just experimenting with settings and colors.

But then I took it to a real painting and after creating a sketch of @Fletcher_Kitten using some ARKVIS SKETCH software and my own
enhancements I painted it with the Flemish Rub brush. You can find out more about ARKVIS SKETCH reading about it here on my blog under
the software section.

I will continue to explore and introduce you all to the goodies that are hidden in this great Corel download area! There are many
“oldie goldies” in there that new users have never seen! Have a painting party today!

We had a blast at the webinar tonite!
The GREAT FACE PAINT was just too much fun and too much information.
Thanks Karen Bonaker and the Digital Art Academy for everything.
Remember! Only good for 24 HOUR SALE!

Here are the links LIVE for you all:

http://www.marilynsholin.com/blog

Scroll to bottom of the page for DIGITAL ART ACADEMY 24 HOUR SALE!
http://www.marilynsholin.com/books/s…ews-discounts/

http://www.digitalpaintingforum.com/shop

http://www.studiochris.us/software/brush-manager/

http://www.thedigitalpaintbrush.com

The 24 Hour Discounts are at the Software Reviews page….scroll to BOTTOM of the page.

Good for 24 HOURS only!

Tonight I am doing a webinair for the Digital Art Academy and I will be using the Flemish Rub brush as one of the brushes in the paintings. This is an old brush that goes way back to Painter 5 and John Derry the Daddy of Painter designed it. It is on the cd’s that come as extra materials with Corel Painter. Because back in 2005 there was discussion about this brush on the Digital Painting Forum I am sharing everything here that John said about the brush and the new controls we can use with it. Please be sure to visit John Derrys website and enjoy his other free downloads including lessons and Johns fabulous set of Painter Brushes!
DISCUSSION FROM THE DIGITAL PAINTING FORUM:
October 2005
REGARDING THE FLEMISH RUB BRUSH:
Directly from John Derry:
Hi:

I thought you might like a bit of background regarding the Flemish Rub variant. I created this brush when we were working on the Painter 5 release. Jeremy has appropriated it for his Brush Goodies and, avid Painter maestro that he is, he has seeded this brush variant to many users. On with the story…

One of the techniques of the Flemish oil painters was to use their forearm to effectively blend a large swath of wet oils on the canvas. Obviously, they ended up with a mess on their arm (in the name of a Art!), but the effect created a smooth blend of color on the canvas. I wanted to create a brush that had some of the same appeal and, after a bit of experimentation, the Flemish Rub variant was born.

If you’d like to get your hands on the Flemish Rub brush, you need look no further than your Painter IX CD. To locate it, go to Extras: Brushes: Painter 5 Brushes: Artists: Flemish Rub.xml. Copy this file to on your system to Corel Painter IX: Brushes: Painter Brushes: Artists folder and the next time you open the Artists category, there you’ll find Flemish Rub awaiting your exploration! Note that you can control the pull of this brush via the Grain adjuster.

I hope that you’ll enjoy this oldie-but-goodie variant!

Viva la Painter!
Hi Again:

One thing I forgot to mention with regard to the Flemish Rub variant…this variant (and all pre-Painter 6 variants) were created before we introduced full 360° dab rotation. As a result, these older brush require a slight tweak to perform as expected.

With the Flemish Rub variant active, navigate to Brush Controls: Angle palette and adjust the Angle Range slider to 360°. That’s it! With this adjustment, the brush’s width with follow your stroke direction.

Having done this, you’ll now be a Painter Brush Mechanic!

This original version of the Flemish Rub variant uses a highly squeezed Circular Dab (making it rice shaped) with Jitter applied to produce a stroke that varies the amount of smeared underlying paint across the width of the brush. The resulting smeared paint has a wavy character.

In playing with Flemish Rub variant, I noticed that Grain Expression (Brush Controls: General Palette) is set to None. It is a far more expressive tool when the Grain Expression is set to Pressure. This enables a pressure-controlled smearing effect. Less pressure minimizes smearing; more pressure exaggerates smearing.

Viva la Painter!
Obviously, any variant can be—and I highly encourage it—adjusted to the user’s own tastes. The other thing I discovered is that I like the way Flemish Rub looks with the Drip Method subcategory set to Drip (the original Flemish Rub is set to Grainy Drip). When set to Drip, the resulting strokes have a silky smooth quality to them.

END of ARTICLE JOHN DERRY