Merging Portraits, Landscapes and Art:
New Rules - No Limits
Miami, Florida, USA

Course: Learn Corel Painter combined with Photoshop to create true Art.

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.

Although this is an introductory level class, anyone who is already experienced with Painter, and/or who took Marilyn’s class last year, will still gain a lot from the class. Each year Marilyn gains more knowledge and experience to pass on to her students.
She welcomes previous students and promises to have everyone up to speed quickly and painting. Every level of photographer from beginner to advance can learn from techniques of how to create excellent digital images using Painter and Photoshop.

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, who was always best known as the premier baby, children, and family Portrait Photographer is now, Marilyn, the Portrait Artist and Painter Expert.

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

Sunday August 19th 2007
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 20th 2007
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 21st 2007
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 22nd 2007
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 23rd 2007
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 WHO'S LEVEL OF COMPENTENCY IS FAR BELOW THE COURSE DESCRIPTION OR OTHER PHOTOGRAPHERS LEVEL IN THE CLASS.

Student Equipment Requirements

You will need Corel Painter 9.5 and PhotoShop 7 or better. We will be using Painter most of the time. You will learn how to prepare your images for painting in Photoshop and learn about useful plug-in filters that help to create even better paintings.

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 INTUOUS tablet is what is needed for class. 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 beginning portrait 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.

For the discussion time about current artists artwork in the modern market, if you like, bring a magazine or books that show the types of work you like and share it with the class and we will see if we can figure out how to paint like your favorites.

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

Marilyns’ 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
323-4 Ives Dairy Road
Miami, Fl., 33179
305-653-1414
http://www.marilynsholin.com
marilynsholin@gmail.com