Painting Portraits in a Digital World

In this  workshop, we will cover fun and easy ways to get started creating art from your images In Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter.  You will learn Cheri’s techniques for painting beginning with the prep work in Photoshop and then painting the images in Corel Painter.

Needed for class:
*Computer already loaded with the latest versions of Adobe Photoshop ( not elements), and Corel Painter . Trial versions of Corel Painter can be downloaded for 30 days for free from www.corel.com.

*Wacom tablet and stylus is a must.

* Images to work on. While we will have images for class, we can however when time permits to work on personal paintings. So bring what ever you would like to paint.

Cheri MacCallum

PPA Certified, M. Artist, Cr., GFD, Ph. Artist

Cheri began her career 25 years ago as a photographic retouch artist at Fitz-Symms Photographers in Augusta Ga. She did negative and print retouching, hand tinting as well as artwork for copy and restoration of old photographs. She's done retouching and artwork for many of the finest portrait photographers in the country.  She currently offers professional art services to professional photographers including Painter Portraits and fine art printing.

Cheri is a member of Professional Photographers of America (PPA) by which she has been certified as an art/tech specialist and been awarded three degrees, PPA Master Artist,  PPA Craftsman and MEI.  She was awarded the Georgia Fellowship Degree from the Georgia Professional Photographers Association (GPPA) and was recently named Georgia Professional Photographers Association’s “2006 Photographer of the Year”. .She is also a member of the Photographic Artisans Guild.

Cheri’s fine art paintings only begin as a digital photograph, then they are painted by hand, stroke by stroked using painting software, tablet and stylus and then printed as pigmented ink on fine art giclee or canvas giclee. Her images have been published and won numerous awards, been published  in the PPA  Showcase and Loan Collection  books.
Cheri has recently moved to Idaho Falls, ID and is looking forward to a new adventure.

Artist’s statement:
I feel the need to help the viewer to see with their hearts as well as with their eyes.

Cheri can be reached at:
P.O. Box 51918
Idaho Falls, ID 83405
404.316.2622   
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www.artbycheri.net