My Painting Hung at Asheville Airport Gallery, originally uploaded by marilynsholin.

Last night was the opening of the new show at the Asheville Airport Art Gallery. Here is a shot of my 30×40 pigment and acrylics on canvas painting hanging there. A good time was had by all and there is a great group of artists represented there! I am honored to be among them!

Totally convinced our neighbors played a trick on us last night, originally uploaded by marilynsholin.

Carpet of leaves covered our entire front lawn this morning and the car, driveway and more. Yesterday we clearly had a driveway and road in front of the house. All gone!

It’s Kitty Day on the blog! Enjoy this our baby being as cute as he can be. Follow him on Twitter for more of his antics!

Follow Me @fletcher_kitten, originally uploaded by marilynsholin.

Meet Fletcher Etcha Sketcha our almost year old kitten who rules the house and all our cats. He is the baby of the group but has taught the others how to play and how to enjoy life. Here’s to Fletcher! You can follow him on Twitter!

REGISTER with PPA for the first Digital Paintbrush Super Monday in Asheville,NC

Take Marilyn PPA Super Monday Workshop

Includes Lunch and Seats ARE Limited so Register now!
We will be covering Corel Painter 11 plus other software to give you a demo of how to create your own digital paintings!

We now have a new You Tube Channel called Digital Paintbrush and it’s just for learning about different painting techniques whether it’s Painter or Photoshop or other software. Be sure to subscribe to it for the latest videos from around the net all in one place. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feRvkcb-DHs

Just finished updating my entire schedule for Painter X Workshops and events and my speaking commitments. I hope to see some of you at some of these! Please feel free to write me with questions or for more information.

We are very excited about all the events, but the Asheville:State of the Arts events are special to us and we hope to add more guest speakers coming in from all over the country! We will be adding other Corel Painter instructors and classes about digital art and Photoshop instructors! So be sure to subscribe to this blog for all updates!

To see some video of the last Asheville Painter Workshop watch this:

MSholin Digital Painting Workshop in Asheville

THE BOOK LAUNCH BELOW HAS BEEN DELAYED DUE TO WEATHER….

WILL RESCHEDULE IT AND POST AGAIN CLOSER TO SPRING!

Title:  Art of Digital Photo Painting Book Launch!
Date: January 25 2009 Asheville,NC
Instructor: Marilyn Sholin
Short Description: Presentation of Marilyns new book for Lark Publishing on the Art of Digital Photo Painting. Join us for
a short presentation and refreshments and meet the artist and book signing.

FREE but you must register to attend. Send me an email if you want to come in the SPRING!

Title:  The Digital Art Studio in MICHIGAN
Date: February 9 2009 All Day Program Michigan Professional Photographers Convention Lansing,MI
Instructor: Marilyn Sholin
Short Description:  Be the artist you always wanted to be learning how to create, market and sell your fine art using Painter X
Link:    http://www.ppm.org/annualconvention.html

Title:  The Digital Paintbrush
Date:  February 16-18 2009 WPPI Las Vegas, NV
Instructor: Marilyn Sholin
Short Description: Multiple Presentations on the Tradeshow floor presenting Painter X
Link:   http://www.wppionline.com/index.tml

Title:  The Digital Art Studio in NEW YORK
Date: March 29 2009 PPSNY Convention Albany, NY
Instructor: Marilyn Sholin
Short Description:  Be the artist you always wanted to be learning how to create, market and sell your fine art using Painter X
Link:    http://www.ppsnys.com/conference.html

Title:  The Digital Art Studio in Kansas City, MO
Date: March 31 2009 Heart of American Convention
Instructor: Marilyn Sholin
Short Description:  Be the artist you always wanted to be learning how to create, market and sell your fine art using Painter X
Link:    http://www.hoappa.com/

Title:  The Digital Art Studio in KENTUCKY
Date: April 27-29 2009 Kentucky Academy of Photographic Arts, Bowling Green, Kentucky
Instructor: Marilyn Sholin
Short Description:  Three Days of Painter X and embellishing the canvas
Link:    http://kapaclasses.com/kapasholin.htm

Title: BEYOND DIGITAL ART

Date: May 3-8 2009 Asheville,NC

Instructor: THERESA AIREY and MARILYN SHOLIN
Short Description:  Five Days of learning painting,infrared photography and more!
Link:    Coming Soon

Title:  Asheville Spring Painter Blast!
Date: May 17-20 2009 SPRING ADVANCED PAINTER BLAST Asheville, NC
Instructor: Marilyn Sholin
Short Description:  Four Days of Advanced Painter in Spring Flowers of Smoky Mountains
Link:    http://www.digitalpaintingforum.com/shop

Title:  Asheville BEGINNER PAINTER X
Date: June 14-15 2009 Two Days Beginner Painter X
Instructor: Marilyn Sholin
Short Description:  Two Days of BEGINNER Painter X
Link:    http://www.digitalpaintingforum.com/shop

Title:  Asheville BEGINNER PAINTER X
Date: July 12-13 2009 Two Days Beginner Painter X
Instructor: Marilyn Sholin
Short Description:  Two Days of BEGINNER Painter X
Link:    http://www.digitalpaintingforum.com/shop

AUGUST:  Marilyn will again be in Canada at the Niagara School of Imaging!!

BEWARE…boring New Years RANT about Network TV!

Now I am mad…not just mad but freaking mad and realize that NBC, CBS and ABC executives do NOT live in the real world! We, the REAL WORLD are BUSY people! We tape our shows, we download fron iTunes…we watch our downloads while we fly here and there. We are clearly far more busy than all of you are. You think that if we miss a few episodes and sorry to say, you miss out on commercial income, we are gone. We are NOT gone! I am grateful that most Mondays I am able to be home or tape Prison Break….happily 24 is a huge success and the little shows like Burn Notice and CHUCK are entertaining enough to keep them on…but GIVE ME A BREAK CBS, NBC and ABC….give other shows a chance! Just found out that one of my little fun dirty secrets has been cancelled…Dirty Sexy Money with the fun cast, has been cancelled after a cliff hangar. I have no faith to watch a show real time any more! FAT ACTRESS gets cancelled? I watched all the episodes on a business trip and was laughing out loud. Had no time to watch it in real time..CANCELLED again.

Downloaded on iTunes all of  Julianna Margulies amazing show Canterburys Law on a business trip…I cried and laughed and got totally involved in all the episodes and then find out CANCELLED. What happened to her son? What happened to her and her drinking and ex-husband….more good TV writers out of work.

Sorry Network TV Executives…but this is the new world…you need to give shows time. You believed enough to put them on tv…now give us time to find them instead of all the totally crappy reality low budget tv shows like Ryan Seacrest productions of My MOM picks out my wife???? This is clearly why we watch CABLE tv and opt for better tv shows. I am so sick of being sucked in to your lame lives.

Okay… I admit…my DVR is set for 24 season debut…but what else do you have for me?

Those that read my blog for art….and Painter X tutorials and updates…sorry, but this is my rant and I’m sticking to it! Corel Painter X updates coming next!

My new book The Art of Digital Photo Painting from Lark Books is shipping now earlier than anticipated. You can still order it on Amazon and are guaranteed holiday delivery as of today. We found that the link to  Twisting Pixels has changed…the download site for TWISTING PIXELS is on THIS PAGE at the bottom scrolling down you will find the link. Click Windows or MAC to get the FREE TRIAL. Any other click takes you to purchasing it.

Also, we found that right now the link in the book to the DEMO images on the Lark site is http://www.larkbooks.com/digital/photopaint and there you can download each image individually. If you want to download the images for the tutorials in one large ZIP file go HERE on my own site. Because the delivery sort of jumped ahead on us, we got caught not having them up yet. The download is 82megs so if you are on a slow connection, give it time to download.

I have been receiving emails for a few days now all with positive comments on the book. If you feel the same about it and would like to write a wonderful Five Star review of it on Amazon.com that would be great! Thanks all!

Our Blogging for Photographers and Artists Workshop is coming up later this week, but we are offering a last minute limited time special deal to forum members of the Digital Painting Forum, The Digital Art Academy and the No BS Success Forum members!

$100 OFF the workshop fee to the first few to email me and sign up.You need to email me your LOG IN name and which forum you belong to and in return you will get the Discount Coupon Code to register!

The info, dates and registration information is all HERE and the Workshop is being taught by website and blogger expert Chris Price. You can see even more info at Chris website.

In this packed two days you will be up and running and have learned how to quickly update your site and how important blogging is to your business!