Painter Panache Intro Class
Ramada Plaza Hotel, San Francisco
January 12 - 16, 2004
Jeremy Sutton
interpretation won People's Choice at the Northern California Professional Photographers meeting in February 2003.
A Great Opportunity to Learn Painter and Deepen Your Artistry
In this exciting and intensive hands-on, bring-your-own-computer, workshop you will learn how to use Corel Painter 8 and apply it to your photographs to transform them into oils, water colors and pastels. You will learn how to navigate around the interface and choose between all the fabulous brushes to achieve different creative effects. In this workshop you will learn how to add your own unique artistic styling, flavor, panache and flair to your images with hand-painted brush strokes, organic borders and rich textures. This class covers all the basics including:
- How to set up Painter for optimum creativity.
- How to choose and control brushes and art materials.
- How to utilize Painter's powerful cloning capabilities.
- Effective strategies for transforming your photographs with beautiful painterly brush strokes that emulate the look and feel of traditional oils, water colors and pastels.
This five day immersion is the ideal way to get to grips with Painter and learn the art of transforming your photographs into paintings.
More Examples
Here are more examples of transformations created in Painter:
You can see a tutorial written about the creation of this Ballerina image featured on this web site.
Structured Hands-on Learning
Each day of class includes a review of material, a class critique, a techniques demonstration, a hands-on project assignment when you try out the demonstrated techniques on an image of your own.
Limited Class Size and Extended Classroom Hours
Small class size ensures a high level of personal attention. Extended classroom hours include both early bird morning and night owl evening study sessions. The classroom is accessible to students around the clock, 24 hours per day. Be prepared for total Painter immersion!
Beginner Level
This is a class aimed at people who are new to Painter 8 or wish to have a refresher on the basics. No previous Painter experience is needed. If you are seeking a more advanced Painter class and wish to develop your artistry in Painter further, then my Painter Panache Master Series Classes may be just what you're looking for.
Fees and Requirements
The course fee is $595.
Students are responsible for their own travel, lodgings and meals. The Ramada Plaza offers a special rate of $89/night for workshop participants. Students should bring their own computers, either Mac or Windows, either laptop or desktop, equipped with the latest version of Corel Painter 8 and a tablet (I recommend the Wacom Intuos2 6x8). I highly recommend you have the latest version of your computer operating system, either Mac OS X or Windows 2000 or XP. Your computer should have enough RAM to run the software (128MB RAM minimum recommended), enough hard drive space to save project files generated during the week (12 GB hard drive or larger recommended) and, ideally, a CD writer for backing up your files. The textbook for this class is Jeremy's book Painter 8 Creativity: Digital Artist's Handbook.
Besides bringing your computer and files to work on, you are encouraged to bring samples of your own work (digital and non-digital) to share with the class, examples of artistic styles you wish to emulate and inspiring books for the library (just make sure your name is clearly written in the books).
Beautiful Historical Venue
The Ramada Plaza is a beautiful historical hotel located in the center of San Francisco, next to the Civic Center, at 1231 Market Street, between 8th and 9th streets. It survived the 1906 earthquake and became the temporary city hall for a few years following the earthquake. The class takes place in the magnificent Ghiradelli Room. Secure paid parking is available at the hotel for hotel guests or on the other side of 8th Street at the Trinity Apartments for non-guests. The Ramada is conveniently located at the Civic Center BART station.
To register for this course please fill in the Registration Form.
The portrait shown at the top of this page is a live portrayal by Jeremy of legendary photographer Jay Stock.
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Online Training
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PPA members will earn one merit for attending this course.