Hello World! I’m BACK! Yes, it’s been a while but I have been really busy working on all kinds of new exciting methods and programs. My NEW Live and in Person WORKSHOP in Asheville North Carolina is coming up soon! REGISTER now for this fabulous workshop and then you can even add on a WET PAINT DAY to learn how to seal your prints and add acrylic gel and paints to your canvas!

Very excited to be offering this workshop. For full details on the workshop to to More Details Art of Digital Painting Collage LINK

Tonight I am doing a FREE (yes, really!) webinar at the Photography Schoolhouse. You can register for FREE! You may be wondering where I have been, well between Facebook and my blogging at Pixiq it’s been a wild ride keeping me away from my own blog. But it’s time to get back to connecting with my own blog.  Tonight’s webinar is about easy art for Portraits!

Marilyn Sholin’s  SECRET WEAPON:
Portrait Art on Steroids

Wednesday Nov. 30, 2011 at 6:00PM Pacific Time – Price = FREE

Give your clients art choices for their portraits that only take a few clicks and no painting experience necessary. We are talking about innovation and formulas I’ll give you that only require a few steps and from there you can experiment and create your own. This only takes a few minutes. We will be using basic Photoshop skills (even beginners can do this) and a few new filters like Nik Efex 4. You will be amazed at how fast you can do this and how these new techniques will sell. Be innovative and do something new and different from all the other photographers.

I will be showing you some simple changes with Postworkshop, Topaz Filters, Alienskin SnapArt 3, Nik Filters EFEX 4. Here are a few examples.

True to my word here are the DISCOUNT CODES and all the links I mention in the webinar….PLUS a few others just for good measure.

New Links and Discount Codes

Nik Software

http://bit.ly/ms_nikfilters   Discount Code: msholin

Topaz Filters

http://bit.ly/ms_topazfilters  Discount Code:  msholin

Postworkshop

http://bit.ly/ms_postworkshop  Discount Code:     xyco-u8s3

Alienskin Snapart3 and All Alienskin Software

http://www.alienskin.com/snapart/index.aspx

Discount Code: MSH0901

Lucis Art Pro 6 and Lucis Art 3 ED and Lucis Art 3 SE

http://www.lucisart.com/

Discount Code: : HIDDENIMAGE

Dynamic Auto Painter

http://www.mediachance.com/dap/index.html

Sorry, no discounts available

Think Tank Photo Equipment and Accessories

http://bit.ly/ms_thinktank

Free Gift Code: WS-513

Be sure to go to Pixiq to see more FREE LESSONS and videos!

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!

I did a webinar today with @marathonpress and it was so incredibly awesome I had to share it with you all! I did four videos showing me painting with acrylic paint on my digital painting printed on canvas. We had over 50 people watching and for the first time combined live webinar with slides and me chatting live with recorded video. It was incredibly AWESOME and the good news is even if you never signed up and missed this ground breaking event you can still get it! I showed digital files versus the painted final paintings. I had fun…I was stupid, I was just “ME” and you get to see it ALL!  You can register and buy the video HERE

On another note…if you missed the awesome marketing TELESUMMIT where I give away huge secrets to being a financially successful photographer or artist and how to use Facebook correctly ( you ARE doing it WRONG…just admit it already!)…then until Friday you can buy it HERE!

Don’t yell at me for promoting the BEST info at the best prices. REALLY I don’t have time to do this every day. I want everyone to be successful and HAPPY!

Every August for the past few years I have been asked to teach at the Niagara School of Imaging in St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada. This is the a fantastic, well run, fun school to be at! Everyone in my workshops there always has a great time learning Corel Painter and goes home with a fully hand embellished painted canvas print! NSI spares no expense to be sure all the students and instructors are happy. We all write a Pro Tip for the newsletters and mine was just published this week. Take a look at it: Marilyn Pro Tip about Portrait Painting

Here’s a little clip from it: “Portrait Painting:
The greatest challenge is not learning to use Corel Painter 11 software, it is in the artists struggle to paint portraits and create their own style of portrait painting. There are those that would like to be Picassos and paint the paintings as mere references to the physical person, but more often than not the photographers struggle is to balance themselves on that thin line between looking “too photographic” and attempting to have the portrait still be “painterly”.
READ MORE!
Come and join us there August 16-20. You will leave knowing how to paint with Corel Painter!

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

NEWSLETTER

Tonight (Monday June 1st) is a FREE webinair on the art of Auto Painting with Corel Painter 11.
It’s going to be a fun one and fast and furious.
You canREGISTER for free. But you MUST show up! It’s at 6pm PDT (PACIFIC). There will NOT be any recordings available from it and at the end there will be some very special offers that are only good for 24 hours! So be sure to register for the site and then to log into the webinair.

Next Monday June 8th there is a very special Webinair sponsored by the Digital Art Academy. It’s the BIG FACE OFF where I will teach how to paint faces three different ways! REGISTER for only $30.00! How much better can it get than that?

CLASS DESCRIPTION

After registration, click on Marilyn Sholin’s The Great Face Paint, register for the class and click on Please Confirm Your Registration.

Please also register a User name and password, and to sign up for the newsletter that will keep you informed about all the new classes and webinars at DAA!

Thank You Corel Painter Official Magazine for running one of my latest paintings
FULL PAGE THIS MONTH!
Part of my new set of “Asheville Life” paintings is “Waiting for the Sale” representing the
yearly Bele Chere Art Festival.

Beyond Digital Art Group at the Biltmore, originally uploaded by marilynsholin.

Our great day out photographing at the Biltmore in Asheville with the Beyond Digital Art Workshop. Next years dates are May 1-6 2010. Come learn Infrared Photography and Digital Painting plus much more with Theresa Airey and myself.

World famous author and artist Theresa Airey is coming to Asheville,NC to do an amazing five day workshop with me next month. There are still some seats left for “Beyond the Digital Artist”. Check it out and register for a most creative workshop! BEYOND THE DIGITAL ARTIST We are expecting fantastic weather, amazing weather and an incredible week of art education. Theresa has also just published a new book on Bermuda as a follow up to her sold out original Bermuda book and she will have it with her for you to get your autographed copy.

Just in time for Spring and Summer. Come to a Painter Workshop either for advanced digital artists or for beginners! Corel Painter workshops in Asheville are a blast. We have so much fun and the weather is great in Spring and Summer.
Check out the pictures and videos on Flickr to see what it’s like here. We even have author and artist Theresa Airey coming for an amazing five day Infrared Workshop!