Corel Painter offers robust paint brushes and textures unlike those found in any other software.
And now artists can learn to use this powerful program for motion picture or television animation production at Studio Arts, Hollywood’s premier training center for animation, editing, visual effects and production design.
Entitled Painter 101, the class runs from April 26, 2008 through June 28, 2008 in Studio Arts’ state-of-the-art facilities, where students will have use of Macintoshes loaded with Painter X, and Wacom tablets.
Teaching Painter 101 is artist, author, photographer and original Painter expert, Karen Sperling, who has been writing about and teaching Painter longer than anyone, having written the manuals for the first several versions of the software when it debuted 17 years ago in 1991.
Karen is working on her fourth Painter book and she has taught Painter to everyone from individual artists to staff members at Disney Feature Animation, and she has demonstrated Painter to audiences at American Film Institute. Karen recently had a New York gallery show of her art at Monkdogz Urban Art gallery in the prestigious Chelsea art section , and her paintings and commissioned portraits are held in private collections internationally.
Examples of the Painter tools and techniques covered in Painter 101 include:
- Choosing, editing and using Painter’s brushes to emulate various media including oils, watercolors and pastels
- Special painting tips and techniques that Karen Sperling has developed in her 17 years of working with, writing about and teaching Painter
- Creating custom brushes to help your workflow and to give your work a signature style
- Working with Painter’s textures and creating your own to add dimension to your images
- Working with layers
- Using cloning and Tracing Paper
- Learning and customizing Painter’s shortcuts and auto-painting to speed up the painting process
This class is a must for the painter or animator who wants to make Painter a bigger part of his or her animation workflow.
Artists working in other areas are welcome to attend as well–the Painter tools and techniques covered in Painter 101 apply to any kind of art created in Painter.
For Painter 101 registration and tuition information visit:
https://studioarts.com/
For information about Karen Sperling’s art, visit:
https://www.karensperling.com
For information about Karen Sperling’s upcoming Painter book visit:
https://www.artistrymag.com/docs/sperlingbook.html
Karen Sperling also teaches photographers how to turn photos into paintings in Painter at her Artistry Retreats and Laurence Gartel instructs photographers how to sell their work in the Artistry GARTEL Marketing Seminars. Both seminars take place in exquisite Malibu, CA, high atop the Santa Monica mountains with breathtaking views of the Pacific Ocean.
For more information about the Artistry Retreats and Artistry GARTEL Marketing Seminars, visit:
https://www.artistrymag.com
Karen Sperling and Laurence Gartel are also available for one-on-one instruction and for speaking engagements.
Contact Karen Sperling at ks*******@*ol.com or 818-981-2803 for more information.
This article was last modified on June 19, 2020
This article was first published on April 2, 2008
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