Sutton

Jeremy Sutton

Let Jeremy inspire your creativity as you enjoy a sense of freedom as you paint in the fluid digital world continuously transforming and remolding your image, like working with oil on a canvas).

Course Description: This class will introduce you to a world of unparalleled creative freedom. In this course you will explore ways to transform your photographs into paintings using state-of-the-art digital painting tools. You will learn a combination of technical and artistic skills that will open the doors to you fully expressing yourself on the digital canvas. Jeremy teaches an open-minded, outside the box, approach to transforming your imagery that will stretch your image-making muscles and allow your creativity to flow. Take advantage of this wonderful opportunity for you to stretch yourself creatively on every level.

Jeremy takes a very thorough approach to building up your knowledge and understanding of Corel Painter, balancing the sharing of information with hands-on project work. This affords you the time to integrate the information and hone your skills. Enjoy Jeremy’s combination of unbridled energy and enthusiasm, his deep mastery of the tools, his artistic insights and his passion for teaching. Attending this class will enable you to add new, unique, valuable high-end products to your professional photography business.

No prior experience with Painter is needed. Jeremy will build up from the basics. Although this is an introductory level class, anyone who is already experienced with Painter, and/or who took Jeremy’s class last year, will still gain a lot from the class. Jeremy maximizes hands-on project time and gives all students one-on-one attention during the week. He welcomes back alumni from last year.

Here is an outline of what will be covered:

Syllabus

1 Dive In

Setting the Stage

Breath and Relax

Smart Set Up

Paint ’n’ Play—Experience the Possibilities

Marks for Marks Sake—Explore the Range of Marks You Can Make

2 Painting from Photos

A Context

Basic Principles

Key Steps

Photo Prep—Composition, Borders, Levels and Saturation

Photo as Catalyst—Finding Your Story

Painting as a Journey—Continuous Resolution

Big to Small—General to Specific

Muck Up—Break Down & Build Up

Sculpting Form—Be Bold with Tone

Photo versus Paint—Use of Soft Clone Layers

Creating Focus—Be Selective with Detail and Contrast

3 Beyond Clone Color

Expand Your World of Colors

Color Sets—Applying, Opening, Making and Saving

Artists & Color—From Rembrandt to Warhol

Wild Color—Experiment Boldly

4 Textures

Understanding and Applying Paper Texture in Painter

Papers, Textures, Grain — Language and Meaning

Capturing a Photo as a Paper Texture—Pop Art Effects

Embossing with Surface Textures

5 Listen to your Heart

Be Yourself

Review & Wrap

Instructor Bio

Jeremy Sutton is an internationally recognized artist, author and educator. Born in London, 1961, Jeremy has a Master of Arts degree in Physics from Oxford University. He studied art at the Ruskin School for Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University, and at the Vrije Akademie, The Hague, in The Netherlands. Jeremy has used the computer as his primary art medium since 1991. Jeremy, a former faculty member of the Academy of Art College, San Francisco, speaks at conferences and teaches workshops and seminars all over the world. Jeremy’s paintings are in public and private collections internationally.

Class Requirements :

Mac/PC with Wacom Intuos3 6x8 minimum and 6D Art Pen
Corel Painter X and current up to date OS and Wacom Driver
Digital Images (2500 maximum dimension flat RGB, TIFF, meaningful file name)
Textbook - Painter IX Creativity: Digital Artist's Handbook by Jeremy Sutton, Focal Press 2005