Tutorial DVD-ROMs
How to Paint from Photographs
Using Corel Painter X:
Creative Techniques with Jeremy Sutton
Acknowledgements
Thanks to the following people for their support, help and generosity in contributing to this project:
Michael and Sarisa for agreeing to be the case-study stars of this tutorial and letting users experiment with my images of them. In addition, thank you to Michael for his legal advice.
Rick and Laurie (of Art Deco Collection) for permitting me to share images of them as tutorial images.
Jim Kerns, Moving Monkey Productions,(see his DVD Destination Bangalore) for his cinema verte videography and editing, for flowing with my spontaneity and improvisation, and capturing those qualities on film.
David Reyes, Mad Mango Media, for his technical support, research and programming.
The artists who generously gave me permission to share their wonderful custom brushes with you: Behka Sitterly, Darrell Chitty, David Gell, Denise Laurent, Greg Gyulai, Jolyn Montgomery, Karen Bonaker, Paulo Roberto Purim, Peggy Gyulai, Rob Resing, Scott Dupras, Sherron Sheppard and Shirley Darch.
"Little David" Rose and Stompy Jones, whose wonderful music I have enjoyed dancing to for many years, for generously permitting me to use their music in this DVD set:
- "A Woman's Intuition" performed by Stompy Jones. Written by David Rose. © 2003 Jewel Records (CD: "Stompy Jones "). All rights reserved. Unauthorized duplication is a violation of applicable laws.
- "Can't Find my Baby " performed by Stompy Jones. Written by David Rose. © 2003 Jewel Records (CD: "Stompy Jones "). All rights reserved. Unauthorized duplication is a violation of applicable laws.
The music of Stompy Jones is featured during the titles and some video, and on the Meet Jeremy Studio Tour that appears in the Oxford Internet Institute talk video.
Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers for their great music:
"Roll The Boogie" performed by Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers. Written by Chris Siebert & Lavay Smith. © 2000 Fat Note Records (CD: "Everybody's Talkin' 'Bout Miss Thing!"). All rights reserved. Unauthorized duplication is a violation of applicable laws. Featured on the Roll That Boogie Trailer and the Meet Jeremy Studio Tour (the Meet Jeremy Studio Tour was produced by Bullet Train Media).
Adrian Jost and Trio Garufa for their great music:
"Valse sans Nom" performed by Trio Garufa. Arranged by Guillermo Garcia and Adrian Jost. © 2004 Garufa Records. All rights reserved. Unauthorized duplication is a violation of applicable laws. Featured on the Meet Jeremy Studio Tour.
All other music featured in this DVD set is SmartSound royalty-free music.
Bill Dutton and the Oxford Internet Institute for permitting me to share their webcast video of my talk, "A Tale of Two Portraits: From Crayon to Computer".
Everyone at Wacom, the company whose excellent graphics tablets have helped transform the computer into a true art tool, and who have always been so supportive, for providing the tablets shown in this tutorial.
The Painter team at Corel, the publishers of Corel Painter X, the amazing natural media paint program that changed my life and that of thousands of artists all over the world, for the great job they are doing and for permitting me to include a trial version of the program with this DVD tutorial.
Peggy for your encouragement!
This DVD was produced by Sutton Studios & Gallery.
What to Buy?
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 covenient 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 - Creative Techniques with Jeremy Sutton
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 along the way 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 these two DVD sets I share cross-media techniques that show how I work with different programs and apply traditional media onto my prints.
If you are keen to dive in deeply and work through all my materials then I recommend my Ultimate Collection 2007 which includes all the items mentioned above at a discounted price (roughly equivalent to having the Learning Corel Painter X DVD thrown in for free).