Intermediate to Advanced Digital Painting
Marilyn Sholin
Fletcher, NC, USA

Course: Advance your Digital Painting techniques using Corel Painter, Photoshop and other plug in software and take your paintings live from wet paint to finished canvas. We will be covering multiple methods to paint portraits, landscapes, abstracts and still life.

Marilyn with COREL PAINTER has created, mastered, and innovated the art of photography to a new level. She creates and develops groundbreaking art, which originates from photography. She teaches these techniques to others, to enable them to create their own style leading to financial and creative success.

This course will teach you how to use Corel Painter and Photoshop together to create extraordinary painter art plus it will teach you how to market and sell that art for higher profits. You will learn how to design, photograph, paint and market your photographs for increased profits. You do not need to have any previous experience painting. Marilyn never painted in her life before Painter.

She will help you develop marketing techniques to maximize your client’s urgency to own original art.

This is an Intermediate to Advanced Digital Painting course and the course has prerequisites listed below so be sure to read them and come to the workshop ready to jump in. All past students of mine should be sure they brush up on the techniques and software listed and I am excited to welcome my old students and meet the new ones.

Instructor

For 25 years, Master Craftsman Portrait Artist Marilyn Sholin has constantly and creatively set the bar, in an industry that she has always believed was REAL ART. Marilyn’s impact on the traditional photography industry is evident in her packed convention programs and workshops. She has inspired photographers and artists internationally to stretch their imaginations using digital art. Her methods of teaching have the students painting almost immediately giving them the satisfaction of knowing they can attain results quickly.

Marilyn is a Corel Painter Master, and is recognized as a Master Craftsman by the Professional Photographers of America. Her list of honors is long and boring so we will save you from that.

She is a multi-published author and has been invited to write forwards and recommendations for other authors. Her last book with Lark Publishing "The Art of Digital Painting" was the fastest selling digital art book ever sold on Amazon. The entire first printing sold out in five weeks and immediately went into a second printing internationally. Her articles and interviews about her work have been published and profiled in magazine including: Rangefinder, Shutterbug, Studio Photography & Design, Imagine Publishings Painter magazine plus many more. Marilyns line of City Art is finally available for sale online and in galleries and studios around the world.

Marilyn, who was always best known as the premier baby, children, and family Portrait Photographer is now, Marilyn, the Artist and Painter. She has been juried into many shows, hung her art in public airports and won Best of Show in long standing shows.

Marilyn has redefined the “Art of Photography” to “Photography as ART”

Sunday August 22, 2010
An Overview of the week to come and discussion of expectations and special requests. Bring everyone’s computers up to speed with the proper software and go over their selections of images to paint. We will set up your WACOM tablet for class and go over the basics of using a tablet.
Meet the Tools of Painter and load new brushes Marilyn has selected specially for the class and “goodies” she brings for everyone to load into Painter and Photoshop.

Monday August 23, 2010
GET PAINTING!! Yes, on Monday, before noon, you will be painting! How to approach the Portrait Painting from the moment the file is opened, through Photoshop to Painter. Multiple methods of painting skin, hair and eyes. Color, COLOR!! How to find the “right” colors to paint into your paintings. Learn to create your own colors and sets of colors that are stored and saved.

Tuesday August 24, 2010
Learn the secrets of brush controls and how to effectively change the brushes and save your own favorites. Create your own favorite sets of brushes both by using Custom Palettes and creating your own personal set of brushes.
Quick Clone painting will teach you how to change any background into another one simply and easily by using the Quick Clone method.
Learn the secret to speeding up the painting process and having your finished paintings still look hand made with the powerful Auto Painting module in Painter.

Wednesday August 25, 2010
Painting abstracts, animals and landscapes. Enjoy the freedom that painting other subjects brings to your creativity. Using plug-ins that are embedded in Painter you will learn how to free your mind up to enjoy the act of painting. Review of current top selling artists and how we can emulate their painting styles with Painter and Photoshop.
Discussion on ideas for personalizing your paintings with hand embellishments after they are printed. Finalize your paintings to take home finished work.

Thursday August 26, 2010
The Art of Selling Art! Now that you can paint, you need to learn how to market it, sell it, talk about it and price it. Learn how artists sell their work and the key wording that will help sell your paintings for better profits.

Prerequisites for Marilyn’s Class

This workshop is for accomplished photographers, who have a sound technical background in camera technique and computer skills.

You are expected to have a good technical background of photographing with your digital SLR camera and using your own laptop/desktop computers to review, edit, save and store your images safety.

Although this is not an advanced Photoshop workshop, a good familiarity with your computer, computer literacy, navigation, mouse skills and digital workflow is essential.

You will need to have the most current version of Photoshop and Corel Painter.
(There are 30-day trial versions of Photoshop and Painter which may be downloaded before you arrive at NSI). Your instructor will help you with the download if need be. Your instructor will contact you by email to let you know if there are any other specific software requirements for your course.

THE INSTRUCTORS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO GIVE CONSIDERATION TO THOSE STUDENTS WHOSE LEVEL OF COMPENTENCY IS FAR BELOW THE COURSE DESCRIPTION OR OTHER PHOTOGRAPHERS LEVEL IN THE CLASS.

Course Requirements

• Comfortable knowledge of Corel Painter 11 and Photoshop CS2 or higher
• Wacom TABLET any model but recommend Intuous 4 6x8 size.
• A wireless mouse will make your life easier and less cords around you.
• An extra drive or usb key for at least 4 gigs to back up your work and also pass to instructor for slide shows and printing.

Required Knowledge of Corel Painter

• How to load brushes http://www.digitalpaintingforum.com/movies/installbrushes.mp4 either using the Studio Chris Brush Manager or by manually installing.
• How to organize your workspace so a workspace is set up for the NSI course.
• How to save your Palette layout. How to create Custom Palettes and export them.
• How to add a layer and duplicate a layer.
• Where the composite modes are and how to use opacity with them.
• How to use the Autopainting feature in Painter. How to both use Clone painting and Quick Clone painting.

Required Knowledge of Photoshop

• How to resize and crop your photos in Photoshop so they are all the same size and resolution.
• How to use Hue and Saturation.
• How to install Plugins we will download during the workshop.

Student Equipment Requirements

You will need Corel Painter 11 installed with all the appropriate updates to the software. Photoshop CS or higher should be installed.. Before class you will be sent a list of both plug ins and stand alone programs you must install a few days before arriving at NSI. The reason to install only a few days before is that most of them have demos that are good for 14 to 30 days so we want your software to all be current.

You are required to have this software loaded and working on your computer before you come to class!

A Wacom tablet is a must! Ideally, an INTUOUS3 or 4 tablet 6x8 is what is what I recommend for class. Anything less than that will not give you the complete detail control you need for digital art painting. If you have a Graphire, it is not as pressure sensitive and does not have the options for designating the buttons for actions. We will be setting up everyones tablets in class to begin the course. Laptop or desktop computer with at least 500 megs RAM.

Make sure that you have a clean hard drive and enough room to store data for class assignments.

A portable jump drive would be a good idea to move your class assignments to it and also back up and save brushes and palettes.

Marilyn will send an email before class that will suggest the types of images you should bring to work on in class. Initially, for the lessons, everyone will work on a few of the same images Marilyn will bring and after that it is your choice to paint your own. There will be a complete selection of images provided for those that prefer not to work on their own.

Do NOT bring to class work you are attempting to finish in the workshop that is for a specific client. You may never get to finish it. Take what you learn during the week and apply it to your paintings for your clients.

Lastly, two most important things to bring:
Your IMAGINATION and SENSE OF HUMOR!!

Marilyn’s classes are known to be fun and move quickly keeping everyone up to speed together and no one gets left behind.

Marilyn Sholin Fine Art
14 S Garden Drive,
Fletcher, NC 28732
Bus: 305.582.4750
http://www.marilynsholin.com
marilynsholin@gmail.com

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All images on this page are Marilyn's and Her Students