My Cheap Joe's Workshop "Photoshop for Artists" July 6-10, 2015

http://www.cheapjoes.com/michele-warner-art-workshop-photoshop-for-artists-a-tool-for-traditional-painting-july-6-10-2015.html

There has been some confusion to exactly what we will be doing at this workshop.

Maybe I can explain it better. We will be painting and preparing your work to paint. You will have a short photography session, because having the strongest reference material makes for a stronger work of art.

You will be learning how to use photoshop to aid in your everyday painting (I have taught a 75 year old who had never used a computer before to use this process).

You will be able to use this process in any color medium. I will be working in oils, but I have extensive experience with watercolor, acrylic and years of pastels. It doesn't matter really what color medium you use. I just happen to love oils.

We will be working on our paintings (or drawing if we are working in pastels). This is NOT a class where you paint with the computer to create computer art. You will be learning to use photoshop as an aid in your traditional art. You will be able to design, scale and view your reference material instead of using thumbnail sketches and tracing paper. But we will be painting too.

You will be learning to set your reference material up on a large computer monitor so you can see what you are painting better than you ever have....and believe me, you will never want to go back to working from snap shots! You can see the beautiful vivid colors directly from your own digital photography. No more bad colored prints.

You will learn to scale your reference so it is the same size as your image on your artwork, so you can measure accurately and site size your image. This helps with giving you a much more accurate work. You will learn to mix color, value and hue, so you are getting it right and not guessing. You will be mixing the exact color and value you need.

I will teach you a fast way to discover if it is a drawing or a value problem that is throwing your piece off, so you can correct your work.

Once you learn this process, every time you work on your piece, you will be building and learning on your own.