Painter Panache Intro Class—Los Angeles
August 22 - 26, 2005, The Miner Works of Art Penthouse, LA
with Jeremy Sutton
To register for this course please fill in the Registration Form.
The image shown here is a detail from Jeremy's Moment in Time. To see more examples of Jeremy's Painter artwork please visit Jeremy's online gallery.
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 IX to transform your photographs into beautiful interpretive paintings. You will learn how to customize the Wacom tablet and the Painter interface for optimum efficiency, how to choose between all the fabulous brushes, as well as customize your own unique brushes, to achieve different creative effects. 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, acrylics and pastels.
This hands-on immersion course is the ideal way to get to grips with Painter and learn the art of transforming your photographs into paintings. There is no substitute for an in-person hands-on class. The syllabus includes:
1 Diving In & Mucking Up!
Setting up and customizing your tablet and Painter IX.
Installing extra brushes and art materials from Painter IX Creativity: Digital Artist's Handbook Resource CD.
Making and saving custom variants into your own custom brush category.
Start self portrait.
Capture photographic portraits of each other.
Basic principles of working from a photograph.
The rhythm of transformation.
“Muck Up” concept applied to oil technique.
The "Big Slider" concept of realsim to abstraction.
2 Basic Techniques: Backgrounds, Borders and Layers
Emulating Chalky Pastel with colored backgrounds and borders.
Using soft cloner and other brushes on layers.
3 Breaking away from Clone Color
Sculpting form through use of value or tone. Seeing your composition in tone.
Creating focus, balance and harmony through use of selective contrasts of detail, value, saturation, color, and contour sharpness.
Use of color sets to limit colors.
Use of "Blodge and Blend" technique.
Increasing tonal and color depth, richness and warmth beyond what was present in the original photograph by using your own color and breaking away from clone color.
4 Experimenting with Style
Exploring the balance of abstraction versus realistic representation.
Making a diptych based on the same image by emulating two distinct artistic styles.
Class slide show.
5 Bringing it all Together
End self portrait, review, wrap and graduation.
Structured Hands-on Learning
Instruction includes technique demonstrations, hands-on projects where you try out the demonstrated techniques on an image of your own, and a review of students artwork in which Jeremy gives individual feedback and shares ideas and insights.
Limited Class Size
Small class size ensures a high level of personal attention.
Beginner to Intermediate Level
These classes are aimed at beginner to intermediate level. Although no previous Painter experience is needed, if you are familiar with Painter and have been using it for a number of years, you will still get a lot out of these classes. 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. The Painter Panache Master Series Classes are aimed for students who have already been through the Intro level class. 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.
Fee (includes DVDs and book)
$1,200
This fee INCLUDES a class workbook, Jeremy's new 5-DVD set, Painter IX Simplified for Photographers, Natural Media Painting DVD (Digital Innovator Volume 4) and his new book, Painter IX Creativity: Digital Artist's Handbook. The DVDs and book are required for the class. Time allowing, the DVDs and book will be sent to you ahead of the class. It is recommended you work through the DVDs prior to class. Bring the book with you to class since you will be using brushes installed from the Companion Resource CD that accompanies the book. If you already have, or already have ordered, or will purchase prior to class, the DVDs or book, and do not wish to have them included in the class fee, then the class fee will be reduced accordingly (see Registration Form for details). 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 IXand a Wacom tablet (Jeremy recommends the Wacom Intuos3 6x8 or Cintiq 21SX). 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 ten varied images to work on, some landscapes/cityscapes, some full figure portraits and some close up faces. First prepare these 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, Accomodations & Class Hours
The Miner Works of Art Penthouse, 639 S. Spring Street, Penthouse 14-B, is a working photographic studio loft that offers panoramic views of downtown Los Angeles. The class will take place within the Studio Cyclorama. A close-by hotel with wonderful facilities and very nice accomodation is The Los Angeles Athletic Club (special workshop rate of $109 per night).
Class hours are:
Monday - Thursday 10am - 5:30pm
Friday 10am - 1pm
To register for any of these courses please fill in the Registration Form.
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Online Training
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Painter 11 Creativity:
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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.