Interested in new or additional photo paint techniques?

What if you could spend an hour looking over the shoulder of one of the most successful artists in PPA…a man who has won Photographer of the Year 13 times?

Todays market place is tough. As artist we need to find a way to set ourselves apart from the biz next door. Richard Ramsey has done just that and I twisted his arm enough that he is going to spend ninety minutes of his time via webinar sharing his digital painting methods with the Digital Art Academy and Digital Paint Magazine.

Webinar is Sept 23, 4PM CST

Following are a few good reasons to check out this webinar

• You want your artwork to move to the next level
• You struggle with getting your paintings to be more impressionistic
• You would like new ideas and inspiration on various painting techniques
• You know there are better ways to organize your work flow but haven’t found the right one for you
  
• You have lots of ideas, if only you knew how to implement them
• You want help in seeing light and form in your photo reference files

So who is this guy anyway? Well if you are in Tennessee and are a member of PPA you have heard of him for sure. As I mentioned earlier he is a very accomplished artist and master Photographer. Digital Paint Magazine carried him on the cover in the December 2009 edition. You can find more or Richards work at his website:

http://www.ramseyphotography.com/

Webinar is Sept 23, 4PM CST

Richard Ramsey Digital Painting

Frequently Asked Questions

Q:What if I cant get to the webinar?

A:You don’t have to be present during the live webinar, it will be recorded. The recording is available for an additional $9.95.  After you purchase you will have the opportunity to select the one time offer which includes the download and a bonus. The download will be available about a week after the live event.

Q: How do I get the link to the webinar?

A: From the mistakes I made during the Digital Art Summit we made some small changes. One of those changes is automating the link process. When you complete the order process a link with the password will be sent directly to you.

Photo to Art Paint Like the Old Masters with Odwin Rensen

If you are looking for information on converting Photo to Art, this is one webinar that you should not miss. We had an AWESOME webinar with Odwin Rensen. People have been waiting for a long time for Odwin to share his digital painting techniques. We were not disappointed.

Odwin shared for over two and a half hours and held nothing back. He showed us his precise workflow and developed the image below as we watched and asked questions.

Photo to Art, Paint Like the Old Masters

Photo to art, or digital painting from photo reference has been on the rise for the last two years. It has virtually exploded. A ton of new art software has been released and more is on the way.  In this webinar Odwin utilizes Corel Painter and Adobe Photoshop to create the images above.

The other resources that Odwin put together for you took him some time. He produced at nice PDF that answers all of the questions that came up in the chat box. He also outlined the brushes used as well as providing the full PSD file so you can see what he was doing in each step while he was in Photoshop.

Thanks Odwin for giving the readers of Digital Paint Magazine and our classmates at Digital Art Academy a huge bang for their buck!  You set the bar really high for the remaining webinars with the Summer Digital Art Summit.

If you have not purchased any webinars or you are interested in the videos from the webinars you can see the whole schedule at at:

http://www.digital-art-summit.com/index.html

If you are one of the lucky viewers of this webinar you can grab your resources at Odwin Rensen Webinar Resources.

Your password has been mailed to you if you have already purchased. If you are a new purchaser the pass will be mailed within 24 hours.

If you are interested in purchasing the brushes that Odwin uses in this webinar you can find them at Kelby Training. Tamara Fry-Pietsch is a DVD production editor at Kelby and was gracious enough to send me the following information.

All of the Brushes he used in the demo come from two DVD’s by Fay Sarkis:

The Majority of the brushes are from the
Celebration of Art, Weddings Portrait and Faces DVD Set:

Da Vinci
Vermeer
Cezanne
Rembrandt
Background
Portrait Hair Brushes

The remaining ones come from:

A Celebration of Art, Wild About Animals

Dog Hair Brushes
Wild Life Hair Brushes

The brushes were imbedded in the first DVD ONLY. The two DVD’s listed contain the brushes in a separate folder:)  The whole workspace thing was too problematic, it worked for some machines and not others, so all of the brushes are accessible on those two discs with having to scrap them out of the workspace:)

Both DVD’s can be purchased @

http://www.kelbytraining.com/dvds/index.html

Digital Paint Magazine July Issue is Here, Pet portraits abound!

This is an awesome issue. Probably the best yet. This is the issue to read if you want some terrific tutorials on painting pet portraits. Inside this issue are gobs of articles starting with Scott Deardorff’s article and tutorial, The Evolution of an Animal Portrait”.

Barb Hartsook’s Brush and Pen Column this month is Painting Our Pets and takes a nice peek into eyes. Cat eyes. Skip at Right Click brings us an awesome piece titled, The Journey. Skip ends up with a nice water color pet portrait of his best friend Corey. Skips classes can be found at Digital Art Academy.

Guest author and artist Diana Dillion shares some words and paintings in her article aptly titled Pet Portraits. (Also see Diana’s upcoming pet portrait classes at Digital Art Academy.)

Karen Bonaker gives us some great tips on composition and using some of painters tools to help control where you place your viewer in your image.

If you have been reading DPM very long you may be like most people and really look forward to Victor Lunn-Rockliffe’s zany cartoons…you wont be disappointed.

You will notice there is one thing missing….you, the reader. The readers gallery in empty this month. Shoot us your images and share your talent with the world. Sent them to readersgallery@digitalpaintmagazine.com

Grab your massive Pet portrait information with this months download.

Click here for July Issue

Enjoy and let us know what you think!

PS-Looks like the links are hard to read. Click on “Pet Portrait Information” or at the top on the title, “Digital Paint Magazine July issue”

Digital Paint Webinar with guest Darrell Chitty

Thank-you for everyone that joined us in the webinar last week. It was packed! We had space for only 100 and we turned over 27 people away. Sorry for those that did not get on the live demonstration. Below you will find the resources from that webinar.

Darrell Chitty Painting

First this is the video that Darrell Started off with, this is streaming only. If you want to view these videos at full screen click on the little grey square icon in the player like the example below.

Watching Digital Painting Full Screen

To come back out of full screen just hit the escape button.

Following is the video replay of the webinar, you can watch it here or if you prefer the download link is at the bottom of the player.

Darrel Chitty Painting

Chat log questions download

Painting by Darrell Chitty

Audio answers to chat log questions