Spring 2019 Painting and Digital Art Classes:
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Digital Art to Products Classes Web Design, Photo Products Private Lessons Wednesdays: 1:00 Digital Photoshop Design Wednesdays: 3:00 Oil/Acrylic Painting on canvas Group Classes 28 Quanaduck, Stonington 1. Sundays: 3:00 - 5:00 2. Tuesdays: 5:00 - 7:00 3. Thursdays: 3:00 - 5:00
The first few classes, all of your materials are provided so that you can determine what medium and styles of paintings interest you.
Subsequently, you will need to build your own art supplies and canvases collection. |
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Materials:Digital Art: Laptop with Photoshop 2019 CC already on it.
Painting: Paints, canvas wipes brushes, pant medium, smock. Oil Paints/Acrylic Paints: Titanium or Zinc White, Cadmium Yellow medium, Yellow Ochre, Hansa Yellow, Cadmium Red, (medium or light) Cobalt Blue, Cerulean Blue, Rose Madder, Alizarin Crimson, Indian Red, Hookers Green, Sap Green, Viridian Green, Raw Siena Burnt Umber, Paynes Grey, Mars or Lamp Black . | ||
To sign up for a specific class:
Click your curser on a Bold date on the calendar above. A dialog box will open. Click on Continue. Enter your information to sign up for the class. I will be notified that you have signed up, and, you will be sent an email confirmation, and an email reminder. Thank you!
Click your curser on a Bold date on the calendar above. A dialog box will open. Click on Continue. Enter your information to sign up for the class. I will be notified that you have signed up, and, you will be sent an email confirmation, and an email reminder. Thank you!
Both of the two paintings (below) are 24" x 36" oil on canvas.
I am currently interested in exploring our connections to nature and each other.
Generations each have their turn in various life chapters - connecting and disconnecting with each other along the way.
I am currently interested in exploring our connections to nature and each other.
Generations each have their turn in various life chapters - connecting and disconnecting with each other along the way.
What do we do with these images? Think and imagine and enjoy additional applications and products!
From Painting to Fabric: Oil Painting to Digital Art
The 11" x 14" oil on canvas painting called "First Swim" (below center) started with the energized feeling you get from that first cold swim.
Summer means family meals and experiencing the joy of shared times and memories.
I create products from my paintings to keep the happy vibes flowing beyond the painting.
Summer means family meals and experiencing the joy of shared times and memories.
I create products from my paintings to keep the happy vibes flowing beyond the painting.
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Look at what interests and excites you. Express that in painted and digital art forms. Once the basic shapes are laid down then details can be refined. Always ask yourself: "Where is the light coming from? Are my shadows consistent?" Is there enough tone contrast?
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Group Classes $35/per class
Private in home tutoring for digital painting, photo editing. $125/hour. I have a business background in branding and marketing and a masters in Digital Imaging and Design from NYU. |
Patterns made from the painting - to be applied to additional products.
"Up River Early Fall"
12" x 16" inch oil on Canvas
I take colors from my own oil paintings. Below you will see a series of patterns
in different sizes and scale.
I take these patterns into Photoshop and combine them into patterns.
Experimenting is part of the process. Click on Pictures to buy products.
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Barbara Ginsberg, student, developing a still life. Underpainting first.
Barbara builds her color layers up after the composition is established on the canvas.
Barbara arranges the flowers and photographs the still life in soft light from the left. Barbara, a wonderful gardener and cook, expresses living things with a joyful light touch.
R. Douglass Rice visited a Tuesday Class to show us his style of painting.
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Doug Rice and Ruth Saunders discuss adjustments to Doug's painting -- and Doug shares his process with all of us.
Doug is very accomplished in 2D and 3D - to see more of his work check out his website. click here. |
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Classes are Free Form. We work on Painting subjects and styles that interest you.
Before class begins, email me a photo for reference that you would like to work on, and I will help you set it up for your canvas. Each student works on their own subject at their own pace. All levels are welcome. Send your photo HERE
Try new things: Abstract Contemporary Paintings - why not?
These two paintings are oil on canvas. They were created without an initial plan or subject to look at.
I encourage my students to also just create from their hearts. Both of these paintings were also used to create fabric designs.
Some of the repeat patterns, made frrom pulling colors from the paintings are below:
I encourage my students to also just create from their hearts. Both of these paintings were also used to create fabric designs.
Some of the repeat patterns, made frrom pulling colors from the paintings are below:
BIRDS and the BEES - Abstract Oil on Canvas in the
Collection of Kristina Farrell, Las Vegas, Nevada. |
CABBAGES AND KING - Oil on Canvas 24" x 24"
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Your paintings can become patterns, too. For example the two paintings above became this:
The abstract paintings above are a fun launch pad to make other products. BIRDS and the BEES patterns now available as fabric, gift wrap and wallpaper at Spoonflower.com:
CABBAGES AND KING patterns:
Recent Student Paintings:
Olga Goff - Painting to Products:
Olga Goff painted a portrait of her dog, Louie, in class. We photographed the painting, turned it into a repeat pattern in Adobe Photoshop.
Happiness connects from painting to soft scarf.
Happiness connects from painting to soft scarf.
Exploring different techniques to make visual images that please you
Below are some of the paintings I created. Oil on canvas free-hand, oil on canvas traced from digital photographs manipulated in Adobe Photoshop, free-hand water color, free hand pastel and acrylic paintings. I sell my work and love to teach others how to make their own.
Photoshop requires practice, skill, patience and time to achieve the results you are looking for, it is not simply a matter of pushing a button, and I therefore view it as a tool to be learned rather than "cheating".
Be low is an example of making paintings and then scanning them and bringing into Photoshop to make patterns for fabric and products.
Be low is an example of making paintings and then scanning them and bringing into Photoshop to make patterns for fabric and products.
Try Painting the same image twice with slight variations
Two oil paintings 9 x 12 inches
An exercise to paint quickly from the same still life.
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Scan the two paintings and blend together using Photoshop Tools.
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Bedding available through Spoonflower and Roostery. Click here
You can make patterns with paints or with magic markers and paper as below:
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