Traditional to Digital
Corel Painter X for the Fine Artist
Sutton Studios & Gallery, San Francisco
May 25 - 28, 2009
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A Great Opportunity to Dive into the Wonderful World of Digital Paint!
This workshop is aimed specifically at artists who already have experience in using traditional media and wish to apply their skills to the digital canvas. It is designed to help the traditional artist comprehend and master Corel Painter X with easy-to-understand, user-friendly, non-intimidating, hands-on, project-based instruction presented from an artist's point of view. Corel Painter X offers many advantages to the traditional 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.
Jeremy demonstrating palette knife painting technique on a digital print.
Small Class Size
Small class sizes (no more than ten) ensure a high level of personal attention.
Jeremy giving a digital live portrait demonstration in the "Digital Studio".
Students with their printed canvases in the "Wet Studio", about to explore post-printing techniques.
Fee
The course fee is $1,800, which includes:
- Courtesy experimental canvas print of a painting you create during the workshop (see below);
- Seminar binder with notes, resources and reference material; and
Students are responsible for their own travel, lodgings and meals. To register, complete and send in the Registration Form. Note that this is a five day, not four day, workshop.
Experimental Print
The course fee includes one courtesy experimental canvas print (approximately 16 x 24 inches) of an image created during class. The courtesy print is only intended as a study to provide a practice surface for experimentation and is not a substitute for a professionally proofed and color corrected image. No guarantees are provided regarding the quality of the courtesy print. No proof prints or reprints will be made and no prints will be printed after the class is over.
Level: Beginner - Intermediate
This class is aimed at fine arists who have been working with traditional media. No prior experience with Painter is needed. You are expected to have basic computer skills and know how to create, find, move and save files and folders in your computer. You are also expected to have installed and tested your Wacom tablet and have a basic familiarity with it's use. 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 is aimed at fine artists, there is no pre-requisite regarding formal art training. This class is different from my Painter Creativity Seminars in that it does not focus on transforming digital photographs, even though some photo reference techniques will be included. The focus of this class is on making art and experiencing Painter. There will be minimal art instruction since it is assumed that participants already have a fine art background.
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 X and a tablet (I recommend the Wacom Intuos2 6x8 or 6x11 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: 9am - 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 Hotel Rex.
Here are some photos from the Painter Panache Master Class "Explorations in Style, Texture and Technique", April, 2007, showing students working both digitally and traditionally.
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