Traditional with Digital
Explorations in Combining Media
Sutton Studios & Gallery, San Francisco
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Level: Intermediate
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Mixed media painting (detail) on hand-made paper. Created by Gloria Belcher during the Traditional with Digital workshop.
A Great Opportunity to Stretch Yourself in New Directions Mixing Traditional and Digital Paint Media!
This workshop is aimed at artists and photographers who wish to mix and blend traditional and digital painting and drawing media. The class will include an introduction to Corel Painter 11 with easy-to-understand, user-friendly, non-intimidating, hands-on, project-based instruction presented from an artist's point of view. As part of this course you will draw still lifes and portraits from observation, using both traditional and digital media. You will experience mixing the media, printing on fine art papers and canvas, and applying physical paint and other media onto your prints, working with the latest Golden Digital Grounds and Open Acrylics.
The addition of physical paint and texture to your digital prints takes your paintings to another level. In this class I share the way I approach applying acrylic paint to my prints. You'll get to experience the techniques first hand, learning both palette knife and brush techniques. This will be a very exciting and productive workshop! It will open up a whole new vista of creative avenues to follow. This will be a great opportunity to stretch yourself in new directions.
Drawing the musician and composer Marcus Shelby .
Anne and Gloria painting Jessica, using traditional and digital media.
Gloria adding Caran d'Ashe pastel to her digital print.
The substrate used in this print was a hand-made paper prepared with one of the new Golden Digital Grounds ( see the Just Paint article by Sarah Sands).
Coating hand-made paperts with the Golden Digital Grounds
This workshop is focused on going between media and includes working with traditional drawing and painting tools. It is not focused on photographic transformation, though some painting from photo reference is included. If your primary interest is transforming photographs, then the Painter Creativity Seminar is the class you should take. If you are a photographer who has already taken my Painter Creativity Seminar, and you are interested in learning how to apply physical apint on top of your canvas prints then the best class for you is the Post-Print Painting Workshop.
Digital paint offers a lot of exciting possibilities for the fine artist, including the following:
- speed and ease of moving between media,
- ability to make large works quickly,
- ability to easily reproduce, distribute and edition your work,
- ease of making variations on a theme,
- access to a wealth of unique customizable brushes and effects, many without parallels in traditional media,
- ability to save, recycle, re-purpose and re-use stages of your process,
- ease of making and applying tiled and seamless repeats, patterns and textures,
- convenience of working from photo reference,
- ease of mixing visual elements in collage / montage style, and
- versatility of mixing your traditional and digital media together.
Topics covered will include many of the advantages listed above. You will learn the digital equivalent to traditional sketching and painting techniques, working with and creating textures and patterns, and techniques for combining traditional and digital media, integrating your traditional artworks as a starting point for painting in the computer, as well as ways to apply traditional media onto your digital prints. Projects will include painting from imagination as well as from photographic reference.
This will be a very exciting and productive workshop! It will open up a whole new vista of creative avenues to follow. This will be a great opportunity to stretch yourself in new directions.
Small Class Size
Small class size (no more than eight) ensures a high level of personal attention.
Fee
The course fee is $1,800, which includes:
- Courtesy test prints of paintings you create during the workshop;
- Seminar binder with notes, resources and reference material; and
- All art materials—pastels, papers, canvas. paints, inks, and so on
Students are responsible for their own travel, lodgings and meals. To register, complete and send in the Registration Form.
Test Prints
The course fee includes courtesy test prints of images created during class. Courtesy prints are only intended for experimentation and are not a substitute for professionally proofed and color corrected images. No guarantees are provided regarding the quality of the courtesy prints. No prints will be printed after the class is over.
Level: Beginner - Intermediate
No prior experience with Corel Painter is needed. If you already use Painter you are still welcome to join the class and you will still get a lot out of it. Whilst this class includes a major fine art component, there is no pre-requisite regarding formal art training.
What To Bring
Students should bring their own computers, either Mac or PC, either laptop or desktop, equipped with the latest version of Corel Painter 11 and a tablet (I recommend the Wacom Intuos4 for class, with the latest wacom driver). 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 (1 GB RAM minimum recommended), enough hard drive space to save project files generated during the week (12 GB hard drive free space or larger recommended - new high capacity external hard drives are excellent) and, ideally, a DVD writer for backing up your files. The classroom is kept secure at all all times. Even though you'll be taking photos as part of this training, bring some images you may wish to work on.
Please bring samples of your own work (digital and non-digital) to share with the class and inspiring books for the library (just make sure your name is clearly written in the books).
Class Hours
Instruction hours: 9:30am - 5pm, Monday - Thursday
Out of town students are encouraged to arrive in San Francisco early and visit local art galleries and museums for artistic inspiration and ideas. There are many galleries within a few minutes walk of the recommended hotel, the Hotel Rex (see Visitor Information).
Applying acrylic gel medium
Post-printing painting
Anne explaining how she created the sequence of images displayed.
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