Painter Panache Intro Class
November 7 - 11, 2005, The Pickwick Hotel, San Francisco, CA
with Jeremy Sutton
To register for this introductory class please fill in the Registration Form.
The image shown here is a detail from Jeremy's Moment in Time. To see more examples of Jeremy's Painter artwork please visit Jeremy's online gallery.
A Great Opportunity to Learn Painter and Deepen Your Artistry
In this exciting and intensive hands-on, bring-your-own-computer, workshop you will learn how to use Corel Painter IX to transform your photographs into beautiful interpretive paintings. You will learn how to customize the Wacom tablet and the Painter interface for optimum efficiency, how to choose between all the fabulous brushes, as well as customize your own unique brushes, to achieve different creative effects. You will learn how to add your own unique artistic styling, flavor, panache and flair to your images with hand-painted brush strokes, organic borders and rich textures. This class covers all the basics including:
- How to set up the Wacom tablet and Painter IX for optimum efficiency and creativity.
- Installing extra brushes and art materials from Painter IX Creativity: Digital Artist's Handbook Resource CD.
- Exploring, choosing, controlling and customizing brushes and art materials.
- Utilizing Painter's powerful cloning capabilities.
- Effective strategies for transforming your photographs with beautiful painterly brush strokes that emulate the look and feel of traditional oils, acrylics and pastels.
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Sculpting form through use of value or tone. Seeing your composition in tone.
Creating focus, balance and harmony through use of selective contrasts of detail, value, saturation, color, and contour sharpness.
- Increasing tonal and color depth, richness and warmth beyond what was present in the original photograph by using your own color and breaking away from clone color.
This hands-on immersion course is the ideal way to get to grips with Painter and learn the art of transforming your photographs into paintings. There is no substitute for an in-person hands-on class.
Structured Hands-on Learning
Instruction includes technique demonstrations, hands-on projects where you try out the demonstrated techniques on an image of your own, and a review of students artwork in which Jeremy gives individual feedback and shares ideas and insights.
Limited Class Size
Small class size ensures a high level of personal attention. The classroom is accessible to students around the clock, 24 hours per day. Be prepared for total Painter immersion!
Beginner to Intermediate Level
These classes are aimed at beginner to intermediate level. Although no previous Painter experience is needed, if you are familiar with Painter and have been using it for a number of years, you will still get a lot out of these classes. Much of what is taught goes far beyond just how to use Painter. You will learn efficient workflow practices and how to apply artistic prinicples that make your images sing and light up. The Painter Panache Master Series Classes are aimed for students who have already been through the Intro level class. In the Master Series Classes, students develop a deeper mastery and understanding of Painter's capabilities whilst expanding their artistry, developing their own style and finding their expressive voice.
Fee (include DVDs and book)
$995
This fee INCLUDES a class workbook, Jeremy's new 5-DVD set, Painter IX Simplified for Photographers, Natural Media Painting DVD (Digital Innovator Volume 4) and his new book, Painter IX Creativity: Digital Artist's Handbook. The DVDs and book are required for the class. Time allowing, the DVDs and book will be sent to you ahead of the class. It is recommended you work through the DVDs prior to class. Bring the book with you to class since you will be using brushes installed from the Companion Resource CD that accompanies the book. If you already have, or already have ordered, or will purchase prior to class, the DVDs or book, and do not wish to have them included in the class fee, then the class fee will be reduced accordingly (see Registration Form for details). Students are responsible for their own travel, lodgings and meals.
What to Bring and Prepare
Bring your own computer, either Mac or Windows, laptop or desktop, equipped with Corel Painter IXand a Wacom tablet (Jeremy recommends the Wacom Intuos3 6x8 or Cintiq 21SX). For optimum operation your computer should have the latest version of your computer operating system, either Mac OS X or Windows XP, as much RAM as you can afford and fit into your computer (at least 500 MB recommended), enough free hard drive space to save project files generated during the week (at least 12 GB free hard drive space recommended) and a CD/DVD writer for backing up your files. Please ensure you have installed all software and test run Painter and your tablet prior to class.
Bring with you at least ten varied images to work on, some landscapes/cityscapes, some full figure portraits and some close up faces. First prepare these images in Photoshop, cropping them and adjusting levels and hue/sat as you see fit. Source images for paintings tend to work better when slightly more saturated and contrasty than you may have for a regular image. Save a flattened version of each image, with a meaningful name, as an RGB TIFF file in a folder for source images. Keep the images at the resolution they came out of your camera. You can always resize them later if needed.
Please bring samples of your own work (digital and non-digital) and marketing materials to share with the class, examples of artistic styles you wish to emulate and inspiring books (make sure your name is clearly written in your books).
Venue& Class Hours
The Pickwick Hotel is a lovely historic hotel, just 3 blocks from Union Square and 2 blocks from the SFMOMA. The hotel was featured in Dashiell Hammett's "The Maltese Falcon". It was built in 1926 with neo-gothic architecture. The guest rooms, though on the small side and with limited clothing storage space, are clean, have comfortable beds, are recently redorated in French provisional decor, and are equipped with a desk (with T1 high speed internet), comfy arm chair, cable TV, in-room fridge and in-room robe. We'll be in the Merlin Room, very appropriately named for the magic you'll be creating on your digital canvas! For reservations call 1-800-227-3282 or 1-415-995-5222 (M - F, 8am - 4pm PCT). Tell them you're with Jeremy Sutton's Painter Workshop and you'll get a special room rate ($89). Rooms recommended by earlier students are: 237, 310, 420, 617 and 715. Hotel parking is $25 per day with in and out priviledges. For those commuting in each day by car you can park in the hotel garage for $13 (entrance on Mission). If you're flying in I recommend getting a shuttle ($15 from SFO) or taxi ($30 from SFO) to the hotel and using feet, taxi or trolley to get around town.
Class hours are:
Monday - Thursday 9:30am - 5pm
Friday 9:30am - 1pm
Students have 24 hour access to the class room.
To register for any of this class please fill in the Registration Form.
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Online Training
PaintboxJ.com
New Book!
Painter 11 Creativity:
Digital Artist's Handbook
with Jeremy Sutton:
The Art of
The interface has not changed significantly between Painter X and Painter 11 so you can easily apply the lessons from all my earlier materials when using Corel Painter 11. Likewise my PaintboxJ Painter 11 tutorials can all be easily applied in earlier versions of Painter. I do strongly recommend upgrading to Painter 11 if you currently have an earlier version. The newest Painter is the best yet. It is significantly faster than earlier versions and includes a whole new class of wonderful brushes (the Hard Media brushes).
For information on other Painter resources out there, please explore the Links page.
PPA members will earn one merit for attending the san Francisco courses.