Instructor: Jennifer Swoboda
The course will introduce the student to the principles of color theory via an exploration of color families and their associations, color variations, and an examination of the skillful distribution of color to achieve the desired impact. This class is appropriate for the digital artist as well as the traditional media artist and will help you to understand the basis of color in your paintings and how color can maximize the impact it has on the viewer.
Instructor: Karen Bonaker
Brushes , Brushes there are so many brushes! How do I use them all ! Have some fun discovering some of the most popular Painter Brushes and learn how to use them in your creative process. This class is intended to introduce you to the various brushes in Painter, this is not a painting class. This is a ®Corel Training Partner class! But wait, there’s more! Enjoy a live session as part of your class introducing you to the new Painter 11 brushes!
Instructor: Les Meehan
This course will introduce you to a collection of fascinating photo/image techniques used by experienced photographers and fine art print makers. With this set of creative photo effects you will discover and enjoy an exciting new journey of self-expression.
With digital technology, image manipulation has never been easier and this course will open the way to self-expression by giving you the confidence to enhance your own photographs and elevate them to the realm of ‘fine art’.
Each easy to follow technique will be clearly explained so that you can understand the background behind the process and not just blindly follow a step-by-step process. In this way, your imagination will be stimulated and at each stage you will be encouraged to explore your creative impulses.
The techniques are fully supported by video tutorials to make the learning experience more enjoyable.
Instructor: Les Meehan
One of the most common questions asked by fresh, keen image makers when faced with their first picture in Photoshop is “So, now what do I do?”. This course will answer that question and many more. From first opening your camera or imported image; to saving it as a fully corrected and clean digital file ready for more advanced work; this course will guide you through the various steps required in an easy to learn way.
Instructor: Karen Bonaker
This class will instill fundamentals of using the Auto-painting palettes in ®Corel Painter. Time will be spent reviewing the Auto-Painting palettes and then going on to create your own expressive paintings using various techniques. This class will include a live webinar session once each week, where all students may collaborate with the instructor and students using this time to show your work and receive critique. This is a great opportunity to learn how you can use the Auto-painting palettes in your creative process.
Instructor: Anne Carter-Hargrove
One of the fastest growing movements in the digital art world is the embellishment of digital prints, using acrylic gels and paints. Embellishment can add a new dimension to your artwork, combining some of the techniques of traditional art with a digital print. In the Digital Print Embellishment Course, you will learn how to turn your digital print into a one of a kind work of art with added texture and color. You will see what a difference adding painted highlights, coloring shadows, or simply adding texture with gels can make.
Instructor: Patri Feher
This is an advanced class focused on setting up an outdoor scanning studio. When capturing garden specimens outside in the open air the sun creates backlighting. Instead of a studio black background the background will be blue (on an uncloudy blue sky day), and varying shades of gray-blue to indigo as the sun sets. A cloudy day will produce a white, light gray or even pink background. Around noon the specimens are rendered with translucency- later on in the day the opacity is restored. The effects possible include delicate, watercolor-like captures and organic abstractions that appear more like paintings than photography- entirely in-scanner, without Photoshop manipulation!
Instructor: Patri Feher
Your ordinary flatbed scanner is a camera with a macro lens! It will allow you to make sensual “Georgia O’Keeffeesque” visions of living specimens at a resolution so high that the 1:1 life size image can be enlarged to fill an oversize canvas. Use your full color or monochrome digitized scan as a “photo realistic” composition or as the source image for an enhanced interpretation or as a study for impressionistic painting or a scientific botanical illustration.
This workshop focuses on capturing the most challenging three-dimensional subject matter- living botanical specimens. Scan them individually or as a “bouquet” in natural poses. While scanning a daisy is a no-brainer, try a German Iris, a Casablanca lily or a complex arrangement of multiple stems!