May Issue of Digital Paint Magazine:Florals

in perusing the posts in the blog I noticed the May issue of the magazine was missing. What gives? Good question, maybe the fact that I turned fifty toward the end of April has something to do with it. Nah…I am still just a babe in the woods so that must mean that I just plain forgot to publish the draft. Yea thats it. I will stick with that.

I know most everyone is on the mailing list and it gets sent to you but just in case you want to refer back to it and you didn’t save the PDF in a folder on your desktop clearly labeled DIGITAL PAINT MAGAZINE….here you go.

The May Issue Of DPM has some cool stuff in it for sure. There are some tutorials from a bunch of awesome artists that will give you ideas and some step by step direction in photoshop painting and using Corel Painter. Awesome.

cheers,

tim

Book Review Cher Threinen-Pendarvis:Beyond Digital Photography

I am a geek. As such I love books. My reading habit is non-curable and I peruse books on many subjects, Art and Marketing are my favorite topics and in the world digital painting every book that is published (to my knowledge) I have been fortunate enough to read. Amazon loves me.

Beyond Digital Photography is another must have book for anyone serious about transforming their photography into painterly works of fine art. This book was written by Cher Threinen-Pendarvis and Donal Jolley and published by PeachPit Press. You most likely have heard of these two well respected artists and authors. Cher is the author of the popular Painter Wow! series and Donal has been featured in many publications including The Photoshop CS/CS2 Wow! Book, the Painter Wow! Book and other publications.

Beyond Digital Photography offers extensive step-by-step information on many topics. One of the coolest things is that time is spend with Corel Painter and Photoshop. Finally we have a book that highlights the use of Painter and Photoshop together! I believe one needs to have an intermediate level of skill with the programs in order to get the most out of this book.

Many different types of paintings and techniques are covered at length. There is a great area in Chapter Two that will show you how to obtain nice flowing painterly techniques for those that are artistically challenged. If you are looking for a few nice water color techniques shoot over to Chapter 5 where Cher gives and awesome explanation on how Painters Digital Watercolors work. Take a peek at the workflow she uses to prepare an image and make it more suitable for a high key watercolor emulation.

Finally my favorite Chapter is Six. Donal shares a unique approach to utilizing layers to achieve an oil painted look that you have to try as soon as you read it. There is also an awesome demonstration from Cher of Painters Real bristle Brushes.

All in all a smoking book. The next time you are about to spend 500 bucks on a workshop…cancel your trip, hole up in your studio or a hotel room for the weekend with your computer, Wacom tablet and this book. You will be glad you did.

Corel Painter Tips-How to make a paper texture

This is the first in a tip series that Woody Walters and I are doing. We will have a short video each week.

You can see the Corel Painter Tips video here.

Hop on over to templatephotoshop.com and watch the video at Woody and Ninya Walters place. The pass word you need is tim.  (lower case) Be sure and sign up for their newsletter while you are there.

Please leave comments and let me know what type of short tips you might want to see in the future.

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Corel Painter Tutorial by John Derry

Ok, so maybe it is not really a tutorial. It is a tad more than that. This is a live event delivered via webinar. John will be covering Corel Painter’s brush engine and show you how to customize your own brushes. This webinar is a primer, an introduction to brush customization. There are some fantastic brushes that will be featured in the webinar, you can see these brushes in action on the short video compiled below.

As a bonus John is going to throw in  a chance to win a lynda.com Painter 11: Mastering Brushes DVD (a $99 value). How cool is that?

Click to watch preview segment

The price listed is for a short time only. The video download and brushes will be selling for 35.00 after the live event is over. Even if you can not be on the call live register NOW,  each participant will be sent the download page for the video and the brushes. Sign up below now and save yourself $10.00.

Breaking NEWS! We only have 100 seats available for the live event. My account just renewed with Go to Webinar and the price for 500 lines went from 99 a month to 399 a month. Right. So as you can imagine I renewed at a lower level which is 100 lines. This will sell out.

Your $25.00 Webinar will include the following:

• Solid step by step instruction by John Derry
• Attendees will watch and listen to the webinar live
• A download of the video capture of the webinar
• Johns Brushes 2 Collection that will used as examples

Dont forget about the BONUS! A chance at winning a Lynda.com DVD by John titled, Painter 11: Mastering Brushes. The DVD sells for $99 and John is going to be giving one away  the during the webinar.