Painter Creativity Seminar
San Francisco
May 15 - 18, 2006
To register for this seminar please fill in the Registration Form.
The images shown here are Jeremy's paintings Dad, Brother Ray and Reachin’. To see more examples of Jeremy's Painter artwork please visit Jeremy's online gallery.
A Great Opportunity to Develop Technically and Artistically, Discover Solutions, Master Techniques and Complete Projects
Enjoy an intensive, hands-on, bring-your-own-computer seminar. This four day course allows flexibility and individual learning. Enjoy a live daily technique demonstration by Jeremy, in which Jeremy works on a real life project, showing how he takes it from beginning to completion. This is followed by seminar project time in which students work on projects of their choice. During the project time Jeremy comes round and helps everyone on an individual basis.
Jeremy's morning demonstrations will be themed loosely as follows (subject to adjustment according to the needs and interests of the students):
- Day 1: Basics recap (how Jeremy customizes his tablet and Painter) followed by painterly transformation of a photograph using the "muck up" technique.
- Day 2: Paper texture demonstration, showing how Jeremy customizes and applies paper texture as he paints.
- Day 3: Overview of collage, showing how Jeremy combines cloning, textures and layering techniques.
- Day 4: Live portrait demonstration, showing how Jeremy approaches capturing a subject, using color and tone to sculpt form and evoke feeling.
Who This Seminar is Suitable For
This seminar is suitable for all levels, beginner to advanced. The seminar-style instruction is ideal for someone who is a highly motivated self-starter and who has a passion and vision of where they want to go and/or has very specific project needs they are wanting to resolve. You will be in a class with other students may be working on different projects and with different interests. Much of what is taught goes far beyond just how to use Painter. You will learn efficient workflow practices and how to apply artistic prinicples that make your images sing and light up.
If you are looking for a more structured learning enviroment and wish to focus specifically on transforming photographs then one of the Painter Panache Intro Classes will be ideal. If you are an experienced Painter user and wish to deepen your mastery of Painter with a more structured class then one of the Painter Panache Master Classes will be ideal. In the Master Series Classes, students develop a deeper mastery and understanding of Painter's capabilities whilst expanding their artistry, developing their own style and finding their expressive voice.
Limited Class Size
The seminar is limited to eight students to ensure a high level of personal attention.
Fee
$895 Click here for the Registration Form.
Recommended resources for this seminar are Jeremy's new DVD set, Painter IX Simplified for Photographers, (supplied with the Digital Innovator Volume 4 Natural Media Painting DVD) and his book, Painter IX Creativity: Digital Artist's Handbook. You can order these items at the time of registering for the class if you wish. It is recommended you work through the DVDs prior to class and bring the book with you to class so hyou can use the extra brushes from the Companion Resource CD that accompanies the book. Students are responsible for their own travel, lodgings and meals.
What to Bring and Prepare
Bring your own computer, either Mac or Windows, laptop or desktop, equipped with Corel Painter IX (updated to latest version, currently 9.1) and a Wacom tablet (Jeremy recommends the Wacom Intuos3 6x8, 6 x 11 or Cintiq 21SX - use coupon code "jeremy" at CoolGraphicStuff for good prices). It is recommended that you have the latest Wacom driver which you can download from their web site. For optimum operation your computer should have the latest version of your computer operating system, either Mac OS X or Windows XP, as much RAM as you can afford and fit into your computer (at least 500 MB recommended), enough free hard drive space to save project files generated during the week (at least 12 GB free hard drive space recommended) and a CD/DVD writer for backing up your files. Please ensure you have installed all software and test run Painter and your tablet prior to class.
Bring with you at least four images, projects, or project ideas, you are interested to work on. These projects could be transforming a photograph into a painting, or painting from scratch, or something more complex such as collage (note that there is a whole week "Collage!" workshop in November, 2006). Prepare photographic images in Photoshop, cropping them and adjusting levels and hue/sat as you see fit. Source images for paintings tend to work better when slightly more saturated and contrasty than you may have for a regular image. Save a flattened version of each image, with a meaningful name, as an RGB TIFF file in a folder for source images. Keep the images at the resolution they came out of your camera. You can always resize them later if needed.
Please bring samples of your own work (digital and non-digital) and marketing materials to share with the class, examples of artistic styles you wish to emulate and inspiring books (make sure your name is clearly written in your books).
Venue
Sutton Studios & Gallery
Nestled in the heart of San Francisco's vibrant historic Mission District amidst a community of artists, architects, film makers and vintners, Sutton Studios & Gallery is a beautiful 1,200 square foot facility with custom track lighting, 13' ceilings, 10' wide projection screen with surround sound, high speed wireless internet, standard and wide format ink-jet printers, refreshment area, library corner and exhibition space. It is adjacent to excellent cafes and restaurants, is ten to fifteen minutes from the city center and is easily accessed by public transport (make use of the 511 Trip Planner).
Sutton Studios & Gallery
1890 Bryant Street #306 (at Mariposa Street)
San Francisco, CA 94110
Phone 415.641.1221
Fax 415.641.1648
- If driving from East Bay take 9th Street/Civic Center exit, keep in middle lane and follow Harrison Street to Mariposa, turn left on Mariposa and Bryant is three blocks up.
- From the South Bay take Vermont Street exit off 101, left on Vermont, left on 17th, left on Bryant. The studio is on the right.
- From the north take Golden gate Bridge to Lombard, then turn right on Van Ness. Follow Van Ness across Market until it becomes South Van Ness. Turn left on 17th, right on Bryant, studio is on the right.
- Click here for map and MapQuest directions.
The Studio is on the third floor of an industrial style building. There is a freight elevator if needed. Please call the Studio at 415-641-1221 for assistance with the elevator if you need to use it. All facilities are wheel chair accessible. Unfortunately parking is not so easy in the mornings. You should allow an extra ten minutes on your travel time to find street parking. There is paid parking about four blocks away at 17th Street and Folsom Street (bounded by Shotwell Street). Do not leave any valuables or bags on show in your car (a recommended precaution where ever you park in San Francisco).
Class Hours
Monday - Thursday class hours 10am - 5pm
If you are flying it is recommended that you include at least one full weekend to enjoy the beautiful city of San Francisco and it's surroundings.
Recommended Place to Stay
The Pickwick Hotel
The Pickwick Hotel, a lovely historic hotel, with clean comfortable rooms (special rate of $129 for Jeremy's Painter Creativity Seminar students - follow the instructions below to take advantage of this rate), five minutes walk from Union Square and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The rooms are on the small side since it's an old hotel. Ask for a large quiet room on upper floors when you check in. Here's the address:
The Pickwick Hotel
85 Fifth Street (cross street is Mission)
San Francisco, CA 94103
800.227.3282 toll free
415.421.7500 phone
415.243.8066 fax
IMPORTANT: Please note that to get the special $129 rate you need to call in directly to 415-421-7500 extension 1022, Monday-Friday 8am - 4pm Pacific Standard Time and ask to speak with Rowena. She'll be happy to assist. The special discounted rate is NOT available, or applicable retroactively, if you use the 800 after hours number, or if you use a hotel reservations company (such as hotels.com, expedia.com etc.) See hotel web site for map and directions. To get from the hotel to the seminar venue, Sutton Studios & Gallery, is very simple: a short 15 minute bus ride. Catch Muni bus number #27 ("Chavez and Mission" on headsign at front of bus) from Fifth and Mission street (right outside the hotel). The fare is $1.50. The bus drops you off right outside the seminar building. Get off at the Bryant St. and Mariposa St. stop. The Studio is in the big grey building opposite Satrbucks and kitty corner from KQED. The 9:25 am bus gets you to the Studio by 9:39 am. In the evening there is a 5:29 pm bus (headsign "Jackson and Van Ness") that gets you back to the hotel by 5:45 pm. Click here for the bus schedule in the morning from the Pickwick and returning to the Pickwick in the evening. You may save a few minutes by taking a cab (probably $5 fare).
To register please fill in the Registration Form.
Which Resources and Materials?
Whatever level of Painter user you are, you will definitely benefit from joining my new online education center www.PaintboxJ.com. In PaintboxJ you will find new video tutorials on Corel Painter 11 added monthly, and much more. The fastest way I can help you with Painter is for you join one of my in-person workshops. In terms of my instructional books and DVDs, I recommend starting off with my book, Painter X Creativity: Digital Artist's Handbook, and introductory DVD, Learning Corel Painter X with Jeremy Sutton. The book is a great complement to all my other materials and also serves as the required text book for all my classes. The book goes deeper and broader than any DVD. It also provides convenient step lists for many of the techniques shared on the DVDs. The Learning Corel Painter X DVD gives you a good overview of the software.
Once you are familiar with the basics then I recommend the more advanced DVD sets, How to Paint from Photographs Using Corel Painter X
and Expanding Your Creativity with Jeremy Sutton - The Art of Collage Portraiture. Both these more advanced DVD sets take you through real-life case studies from beginning to end, sharing my work-flow, organizational systems, creative process, decision-making strategies, techniques and tools, plus including extensive extra brushes, art materials, tutorial images and more. In both DVDs I show how I apply physical paint onto my prints.
The interface has not changed significantly between Painter X and Painter 11 so you can easily apply the lessons from all my earlier materials when using Corel Painter 11. Likewise my PaintboxJ Painter 11 tutorials can all be easily applied in earlier versions of Painter. I do strongly recommend upgrading to Painter 11 if you currently have an earlier version. The newest Painter is the best yet. It is significantly faster than earlier versions and includes a whole new class of wonderful brushes (the Hard Media brushes).
For information on other Painter resources out there, please explore the Links page.
PPA members will earn one merit for attending the san Francisco courses.