Instructor: Karen Bonaker
The Watercolor tool lets you paint with a variety of watercolor strokes using a soft bristled brush on wet or dry paper. Because it is a wet medium the Watercolor tool is ideal for creating subtle, blended color washes and detail. The control you have over the amount of wetness of your brush and the Canvas beneath it lets you produce a wide variety of results.
Instructor: Karen Bonaker
As children, we naturally paint, effortlessly as we see fit, and then we are taught to look this way and do it that way, and we are led to this place of judgment and confusion. Zen painting runs counter to the usual academic and conceptual methods for creation of artwork. It is on this axis between intuition and conceptualization where difficulty lies. But here also lies intrigue and delight, in the spot, just beyond difficulty!”
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: Kirk Nelson
Kirk Nelson has been a graphics artist for over a decade in the Washington DC region. His professional experience ranges from 3D animations to real time training simulations to web design to magazine layouts to something he likes to call ‘Concept Visualizations.’ Currently, he annoys those around him with monthly articles for Advanced Photoshop and Photoshop Creative.
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: Diana Dillion
This class will cover texturizing paintings, adding new and different backgrounds with the use of Photoshop and Painter to create a masterpiece of your imagination! Place your subject in a background that is unique to them as a person, or create a fantasy background that will come to life with different textures, special papers, and special techniques to take your portrait paintings above and beyond my first class in Portrait Painting – Part I.
Diana will also teach you how to enhance your portraits with basic embellishments! Take your painting to the highest level of finishing by adding even more depth and texture with this process! By applying just a few products you will have a painting that resembles the look and feel of a traditional work of art.