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Course Description: Digital Fine Art with PhotoImpact

This course is designed to teach you about the different painting media and the digital techniques to achieve them. You will have the opportunity to try different styles in different media for your digital painting. In each medium we will touch different methods like painting folds, reflection, textures etc. Each lesson includes exercises, tutorials, examples and reference material. Beginners and the more experienced amateur will learn how to achieve the appearance of the different medium and styles. The skills you acquire will bring rich dividends. For more details, please review the lesson outline below.

Lessons

Lesson 1 - Watercolour
Watercolour needs a different approach than the other medium and you will learn how to create a watercolor in your digital painting to get the same effect as a real watercolour.
Some surface textures are supplied.
Watercolour painting
Watercolour surface texture
Different brush stroke
Texture technique
How to make a digital watercolour painting

Exercises and Tutorial
Tutorial on the texture aspect
Tutorial on lights and shadows
Tutorial on folds

Lesson 2 - Oil Painting
Oil painting is one of my favorites for digital painting, but it is just my preference. You will learn to apply the oil technique to digital paintings.

Surface texture
Brushwork do's and don'ts
Handling Edges
Space and Volume
Painting lights and shadow
Lights reflection
Foreground, middle ground and background
Horizon lines
Atmospheric perspective

Exercises and Tutorial
Tutorial on the different texture aspect; Old Irons
Tutorial on the different texture aspect; Country Shelf
Tutorial on lights and shadows; Bottle and Glass
Tutorial on folds; Satin fold
Tutorial on folds; figure with curtain

Lesson 3 - Acrylics
Acrylics painting is the most versatile medium, both watercolour and oil technique could be applied. You will learn how to combine both techniques in your digital acrylics.

Surface texture
Basic techniques brush stroke
Applying watercolour technique
Applying oil technique

Exercises and Tutorial
Tutorial on texture; Old wooden door
Tutorial on texture; Door Knocker
Tutorial on lights and shadows; Interior
Tutorial on folds; Still life

Lesson 4 - Chalk & Pastel
Chalk and pastel are not only for sketching and simple drawing, you could produce some beautiful art with it. You will learn how to apply those techniques to your digital art.

Surface Texture
Texture
Light and Shadow
Folds

Exercises and Tutorial
Tutorial on texture; Scale and nuts
Tutorial on lights and shadows; Crease Paper
Tutorial on folds; Transparent Veil
Tutorial on folds; Ballerina

Lesson 5 - Transparencies

In this lesson we are going to learn a few techniques for painting transparencies, water effect and marine. You will learn what to look for and how to approach your painting, so that you are able to apply these techniques to your own preferred style of painting.

Transparencies
Glass; water; Fog; curtain.
Water Effect
Water around us in different aspects
What to observe
The light and the distance
Water in the landscape
The color Palette
Marines
Dusk; Sunset; Little waves; Meerschaum (Foam); Beach; Reef; Harbour.
Exercises and Tutorial

Lesson 6 - Sky and Landscape

Clouds: In this lesson we will study the different type of clouds and where they are in the atmosphere, to help us to paint a more realistic painting. By learning to identify the types of clouds, we are not going to paint a sky with a Cirrus Fibractus ( High cloud with frost) on a nice hot sunny afternoon just because that type of cloud looks nice.:-) You will have examples and learn how to paint them with the correct color palette. Also, we will have a few landscapes with sky and water elements.

Different type of clouds with example
Where they are in the atmosphere
How to paint Cumulus
Ambiance
Sunset-Valley
House on the Hill
Storm
Cumulus Fractus
The light House
Sunset by the river
Landscape in the wood
Landscape in the mountain
Landscape by the river
Landscape-Atmospheric
Exercises and Tutorial

Lesson 7 - Wrap-up & Review

Prerequisites

This course is for the intermediate to advanced user of PhotoImpact. You must have completed the Creative Painting with PhotoImpact: Paint tools Proficiency course. Completion of Advanced Creative Painting is also recommended or be able to demonstrate complete familiarity of the Paint Tool locations as well as a working knowledge of the brush panel.
You must have PhotoImpact 7, 8, XL or 10 installed on your computer. It can be the trial version, but you will not be able to complete this course during the 30-day trial period.

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