Workshops

Claudia offers Photo-Fine-Art workshops and conferences in Canada and around the world.

Workshops

Claudia offers Photo-Fine-Art workshops and conferences in Canada and around the world.

CREATING PAINTINGS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS
Corel Painter X or XI for beginners

Learn how to transform your photographs into paintings by using and expanding your creativity to unexpected levels with Corel Painter X.

Corel Painter Master Claudia Salguero, will guide you through Painter X or XI and as a professional fine-artist she will provide you with the artistic insight you need know about how to create a balanced
composition, how to give life to eyes in your portraits, how to add realistic lights and shadows to your subjects, how to add magic to you image with vibrant colours and more. No previous painting experience is required.

For some motivation, click on “Claudia on TV” where you can watch clips of "CTV REGIONAL CONTACT" and "ROGERS OTTAWA LIVING", two TV shows that feature Claudia’s art creations using Painter.

Now, let's talk about those two days of fun, creativity and unlimited possibilities.

You will learn how to:

-Set up the Wacom tablet and Painter X or XI for optimum efficiency, creativity and
personal preferences.

-Install, explore, choose, control and customize brushes and art materials.

-Use cloning capabilities.

-Transform your photograph into a traditional artistic medium.

-Give life to your painting by adding lights, shadows and texture through use of layers.

-Increase the richness in color and texture through use of tone, value, saturation, focus, and contour sharpness.

-Print on canvas and stretch on bars your final creation.

-Notions and tips of how to transform your painting into a unique creation adding your hand-painted brush strokes.

DAY 1
UNDERSTANDING THE TOOLS
The Wacom tablet
Corel Painter X or XI Interface
Customizing Painter X or XI
Exploring tools
Selection of a photo
The story behind the image
Composition- Color theory
Creating/ personalizing brushes and papers
Creating the basic image: Cloning, Under-painting

DAY 2
THE CREATIVE PROCESS
Creativity and expression
Color making
Lights and shadows
The magic of layers: transforming/combining
Colour enhancement / special effects

What to bring:

-Computer: a Mac or a Windows laptop or desktop PC. Mac OS X
or Windows XP or Vista, with as much RAM as you can afford (at least 512 MB
recommended) and at least 5 GB free hard drive space recommended. - Corel
Painter X or XI software which you can purchase or upgrade from Corel.com
–Wacom tablet (Intuos or Bamboo models will work) 6 x 8 inches or bigger. Please install
the latest Wacom driver which you can download from Wacom.com.

Digital photos that you'd like to transform into paintings saved as jpg, tiff, cpt or
psd. Minimum 5 x 7 inches 150 dpi.


Next workshops:
July 2010
October 2010
Please contact Claudia for details