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Marilyn

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Gotta pack the bags and move into new digs over at the new Paint Outside the Frame Blog. Everything that is on this blog is archived and saved and moved over to the new spot. So it’s time to say goodbye to Blogsome and say hello to Wordpress. The blog is spiffed up with Tag Clouds and even some Amazon books floating around there recommended by me. It’s really a great new place to find all your Painter X Tutorials information and the latest on artists that use Corel Painter X. So come on over to the Paint Outside the Frame Blog and please feel free to comment there!

You may have missed my article and tutorial in the premier issue one of Painter Magazine from Imagine Publishing in the UK. The article is on Quick Cloning and it is beautifully produced by the magazine. It’s online now in PDF format. Give it time to download as it’s full of images.

Marilyns Corel Painter Magazine Tutorial

Was directed to this great link from Alyson’s Art Biz Blog Jill Rumoshosky Werners ” Top Ten Reasons for Becoming an Artist” is great….need to laugh at yourself today? Read it!

It’s not often in my own workshops I get to create a finished piece of art, but I did in Sarasota at the DTC workshop with this piece done there in a combination of Corel Painter X and Photoshop printed on fine art canvas and then hand embellished with embossing, gold leafing paint, ink and gold leaf and painted. The sad thing is I left the piece there and will need to do it again to have it hanging in my own private collection.
My thanks to Barney Davey for posting on the Digital Painting Forum a kick in the pants to write more by sharing the CopyBlogger site with us. All kicks in the pants are welcome! Next workshops live and in person coming up that will have finished pieces of art are in Niagara in a few weeks. What’s better than Niagara Falls on the Canada side in the summer and Niagara on the Lake? Register ASAP! Next best thing is the Smoky Mountains in fall. So beautiful it will make you cry! We will be doing finished framed pieces of art there also! After that I head to San Jose, Calif. to Paul Tumasons studio where we will do advanced Corel Painter X techniques and also work on finished pieces. This workshop is almost sold out, so register now. Just got word yesterday we are adding seminars and workshops to the London UK January dates at SWPP. Looks like we are going to be cranking in January, February and March. I had better get my Wonder Woman costume out and dust it off to get some magic going.

Barney Davey has a post on his blog Convergent Media-Is it Time to Bury Digital Art? Basically, it talks about using a new definition calling
digital art Convergent Media. This article is well worth your time to read it.
My personal thoughts are that this would mean we now have to define a new word to the public. It’s ART and
after visiting many museums and reading many blogs, etc, I think the best definition is the materials used and not
always how it was created originally.
We don’t explain from scratch, Photo Reference in the computer, then cloned, then painted, then printed, then sprayed, etc…
I prefer to just say it’s my art and it’s produced as pigment on canvas with hand embellishing and gold leafing, etc or whatever
I have added.
Too much detail might be boggling the minds of collectors that really don’t care about details, but end product instead.

Just my thoughts on it. What are yours. Comments welcome!

The Niagara School of Imaging is one of my favorite places to teach Corel Painter X. We have almost an entire week of class and fellowship and creativity there and the venue is gorgeous and the students and teachers are all creative and fun to be with. Last year my students painted ME and you can see their entry into the class pictures here called
I invite you all to read more about the school and register for a great week of Painter X there. The new Painter Workshop at Niagara includes more art education,more brush management and more incredible alternative art methods to turn your digital art into three D
multi media art! JOIN US AT NIAGARA SCHOOL for a week of Corel Painter X education.

Barney Davey’s Art Print Issues blog has an entire article about the Digital Painting Forum and how we have built a wonderful and thriving community of Digital Painters whether using Corel Painter X or any other software and variety of hands on technques to create digital art. He specifically mentions me, Marilyn Sholin, as the creator and owner of the forum and as an artist. To be recoginized by Barney is quite an honor. I own two of his books, “How to Profit from the Art Print Market”. Why two? One goes to my workshops and conventions with me when I speak so I can share it with students and the other stays home and is marked, paper clipped and dog eared from reading it. Great advice for artists.
Thank you Barney for your participation on the forum and for the recognition.