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Painting Photos – A Self Paced online class

painting photos, handpainted gelatin silver print

Looking for creative inspiration?

Painting Photos explores various “recipes” for applying painterly effects to your photographs. Painting Photos responds to the hands-off process of digital photography with hands-on recipes. While our digital hand selects, masks, and guides the pen or mouse, the painting photos process enhances tactile qualities and leaves your handprint. In painting photos, you’ll shape, sculpt, and transform images into artistic works.

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Topics Include

  • Previsualization
  • Why Paint?
  • Art and Photo History
  • Scanning
  • Resizing
  • Color Theory
  • Artistic Borders
  • Creating Border Templates
  • Pseudo Polaroid Transfers
  • Artists Papers
  • Giclees
  • Inkjet Papers
  • Layers
  • Painting
  • Blending Modes
  • Test Prints
  • Printing 
  • Presentation

HOW THE ONLINE CLASS WORKS

Painterly Photos includes four lessons in pdf format rich with information and insights, along with video tutorials. Each lesson is followed by a relevant and challenging assignment corresponding to the lesson. Students are encouraged to submit three digital files (jpegs or PSDs (with layers) per assignment and a summary sheet (word docx) detailing the strategy involved. Cheryl Machat Dorskind will provide video critiques addressing the work and provide video instruction illustrating how to enrich the methods and/or provide alternative methods to create a painterly photo that matches the student’s vision and strategy.

Critiques

The critiques will be rendered as private Vimeo videos (a total of four videos which each average 15 minutes per assignment – that is over 60 minutes of personalized photo critiques!) in the platform of choice (Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Photoshop Elements).

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FORMAT

This class can be approached in several manners. One can work strictly digital (Adobe Photoshop and or Adobe Photoshop Elements) using the digital brush or experiment with artist materials as well. There is a wealth of information on artists papers, inkjet papers, and opportunities to apply color (oils, pastels, and watercolors) onto fine art prints. If you work strictly digital, you will explore the artists materials as filters, textures, blending modes, and fill layers.

REQUIREMENTS

An understanding of layers in either Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Photoshop Elements and a willingness to experiment. There are many step-by-step lessons that will steer you through the assignments. Please feel free to contact me if you want to try the class but are concerned about your level of digital imaging proficiency (cheryl@cherylmachatdorskind.com).

OUTCOMES

Students accomplish new photo editing skills and learn a new way of seeing and interpreting their vision. Many students win awards with images created in my class, as well as find new ways to present their photography and create works of art.

painting photos
student work that incorporates lessons 1-4
Creative Borders
The online class includes video lessons to transform you images into art
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painting photos
Artists find creative inspiration in this class
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About Cheryl

Professional photographer Cheryl Machat Dorskind is a three-time best-selling author and newspaper columnist, an international mentor, a photo educator and adjunct Full professor, a workshop and online instructor, a speaker, and an acclaimed “New York Times” fine-art photographer and handpainter.

She is a member of the American Society of Media Professionals (ASMP) and Canon Professional Services and profiled on Museo.

Learn with Cheryl

Team up with internationally noted fine art mentor Cheryl Machat Dorskind and expand your photographic vision. She is the perfect mentor for the visual artist searching for creative, technical, and marketing direction.

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