Beginner Painter X Workshop October!

August 25th, 2008

Happy to report that there IS a Beginner Corel Painter X Workshop in Asheville for October! October 5-6 we will once again have a workshop for digital artists that want to learn how to use Corel Painter X to create original art of their own. As always, price is reasonable at $399 and includes breakfast, lunch and snacks and a print to take home plus our famous “Goodie Bag” that is full of cool stuff!

DETAILS and REGISTRATION HERE

All workshops at Asheville: State of the Arts hosted by Corel Painter Master Marilyn Sholin are limited to a small group of students that want the intimate experience learning one on one and with a group in a truly warm atmosphere of creativity and encouragement.

Special bonus:  We now have a 21′ Wacom Cintiq for you to test drive!

Purple Flower Painting

August 25th, 2008

Purple Flower Painting, originally uploaded by marilynsholin.

It is just the kind of day I am getting a lot done and trying to get caught up and in the midst of it, one of the images I was editing inspired me to paint. The loose feeling here and the colors really seem to project the rainy day here in Asheville. We are all full of color and painting, but the droop to the petals under the much needed rain is really uplifting.

Niagara 08 Close Up Class Picture

August 25th, 2008

I just came back from Niagara after teaching there for a week at the Niagara School of Imaging for the third year. This is a close up of our class picture cropped to really be able to see everyone. We had a blast and the larger image can be seen on flickr.

Art Biz Coach comes to Asheville!

August 13th, 2008

Asheville painters, artists, craft artists, photographers and more will all be excited to hear that Alyson B. Stanfield, author of “I Would Rather Be in the Studio” is coming to Asheville on October 2nd for a special one night only seminar for a small intimate group. Don’t miss out on this special event! Register to come before it is sold out. This one night only event is hosted by Corel Painter Master author and artist, Marilyn Sholin (isn’t that why you are reading my blog?)!

This event truly is almost sold out and we don’t want anyone to miss out on this special evening.

REGISTER Online Now

Back Online!

August 11th, 2008

Thanks to Studio Chris for getting my server back online! We had a rough afternoon but not as bad as Chris working to fix it all! A million thanks for fixing us back up! Doing a happy dance to be back up. 

Updated Marilyn Sholin Event Schedule

August 11th, 2008

Just finished updating my entire schedule for Painter X Workshops and events and my speaking commitments. I hope to see some of you at some of these! Please feel free to write me with questions or for more information.

We are very excited about all the events, but the Asheville:State of the Arts events are special to us and we hope to add more guest speakers coming in from all over the country! We will be adding other Corel Painter instructors and classes about digital art and Photoshop instructors! So be sure to subscribe to this blog for all updates!

To see some video of the last Asheville Painter Workshop watch this:

MSholin Digital Painting Workshop in Asheville

Title: Marilyn Sholin presents Alyson B. Stanfield
Date: October 2
Instructor: Alyson B. Stanfield “The Art Biz Coach”
Short Description:  An Evening of Learning how to Sell and Market your Digital Paintings created with Painter X
Link:  http://www.artbizcoach.com/workshops/asheville.html

Title: Beginner Painter X in Asheville, NC
Date: October 5-6
Instructor: Marilyn Sholin
Short Description:  Two days of Beginner Painter X. Learn Painter fast and easy.
Link:  http://www.digitalpaintingforum.com/shop

Title: Advanced Fall Painter Blast in Asheville, NC
Date: October 19-22
Instructor: Marilyn Sholin
Short Description: Four Days of advanced painting in the Smokey Mountains.  Advanced Painter techniques, a photography session in the fall colors, visits with gallery owners to learn how to present and sell your art and a day of hand painting and embellishing your final finished canvas. Breakfast and lunch included.
Link:  http://marilynsholinfineart.com/workshops/

Title: Advanced Fall Painter Blast in Asheville, NC Second Session
Date: October 26-29
Instructor: Marilyn Sholin
Short Description: Four Days of advanced painting in the Smokey Mountains.  Advanced Painter techniques, a photography session in the fall colors, visits with gallery owners to learn how to present and sell your art and a day of hand painting and embellishing your final finished canvas. Breakfast and lunch included.
Link:  http://marilynsholinfineart.com/workshops/

Title:  Digital Art Academy: The Digital Paintbrush
Date: October 27th
Instructor: Marilyn Sholin
Short Description: Four Week Online Self Study course on Digital Painting by Marilyn Sholin covering Portraits, Landscapes, Color, Presentation and Textures
Link:  http://www.digitalartacademy.com

Title:  The Digital Paintbrush in Nashville,TN
Date: November 3-5
Instructor: Marilyn Sholin
Short Description: Marilyn will be presenting Beginner Portrait Painting with Painter X at the NOBS Inferno
Link:  http://www.photographymarketingbootcamp.com/

Title:  Marathon Webinair The Digital Art Studio
Date: November 10
Instructor: Marilyn Sholin
Short Description:  Learn how to create a painting quickly using Corel Painter X. Make the painting your own with unique special touches.The secrets to spectacular color and brushstrokes in your paintings.Exciting brushes that are easy to use which brushes to use.
Link:   http://www.marathonpress.com/education/webinars

Title:  Marathon Webinair The Digital Art Studio PART TWO: Hand Embellishing the Canvas
Date: December 1
Instructor: Marilyn Sholin
Short Description: Discussed will be sealing the canvas, gels, gold leafing, paints and other art methods of embellishing the canvas to truly have your work be an original “work of art”. This is the art that clients love and want and it’s fun to do also. All your creativity can be brought together when digital media is brought into the three dimensional world.
Link:   http://www.marathonpress.com/education/webinars

Title:  The Digital Paintbrush
Date: January 11-13 2009 PPA Professional Photographers of America, Phoenix, AZ
Instructor: Marilyn Sholin
Short Description: Multiple Presentations on the Tradeshow floor presenting Painter X
Link:   http://www.imagingusa.org/

Title:  Art of Digital Photo Painting Book Launch!
Date: January 25 2009 Asheville,NC
Instructor: Marilyn Sholin
Short Description: Presentation of Marilyns new book for Lark Publishing on the Art of Digital Photo Painting. Join us for
a short presentation and refreshments and meet the artist and book signing. FREE but you must register to attend.
Link:  http://www.digitalpaintingforum.com/shop

Title:  The Digital Art Studio
Date: February 9 2009 All Day Program Michigan Professional Photographers Convention Lansing,MI
Instructor: Marilyn Sholin
Short Description:  Be the artist you always wanted to be learning how to create, market and sell your fine art using Painter X
Link:    http://www.ppm.org/annualconvention.html

Title:  The Digital Paintbrush
Date:  February 16-18 2009 WPPI Las Vegas, NV
Instructor: Marilyn Sholin
Short Description: Multiple Presentations on the Tradeshow floor presenting Painter X
Link:   http://www.wppionline.com/index.tml

Title:  The Digital Art Studio
Date: March 29 2009 PPSNY Convention Albany, NY
Instructor: Marilyn Sholin
Short Description:  Be the artist you always wanted to be learning how to create, market and sell your fine art using Painter X
Link:    http://www.ppsnys.com/conference.html

Title:  The Digital Art Studio
Date: March 31 2009 Heart of American Convention
Instructor: Marilyn Sholin
Short Description:  Be the artist you always wanted to be learning how to create, market and sell your fine art using Painter X
Link:    http://www.hoappa.com/

Title:  The Digital Art Studio
Date: April 27-29 2009 Kentucky Academy of Photographic Arts, Bowling Green, Kentucky
Instructor: Marilyn Sholin
Short Description:  Three Days of Painter X and embellishing the canvas
Link:    http://kapaclasses.com/kapasholin.htm

Title:  Asheville Spring Painter Blast!
Date: May 17-20 2009 SPRING ADVANCED PAINTER BLAST Asheville, NC
Instructor: Marilyn Sholin
Short Description:  Four Days of Advanced Painter in Spring Flowers of Smoky Mountains
Link:    http://www.digitalpaintingforum.com/shop

Title:  Asheville BEGINNER PAINTER X
Date: July 12-13 2009 Two Days Beginner Painter X
Instructor: Marilyn Sholin
Short Description:  Two Days of BEGINNER Painter X
Link:    http://www.digitalpaintingforum.com/shop

Testing Watercolor Brushes

August 10th, 2008


Testing Watercolor Brushes, originally uploaded by marilynsholin.

I saw a post on Sally Cruikshanks blog about watercolor brushes in Painter X and I had been doing a lot of work with watercolor brush testing and wanted to show her one that is worth checking out. A larger version of this is posted at my flickr site as a test to see it close up.The Digital Watercolor Broad Water Brush is really sweet and can be used for many watery effects. This has no blending yet, just used the brush to swirl and paint. Nice soft watery effects!

New Painting: Waiting 4 the Sale at Bele Chere

August 1st, 2008

Our first year in Asheville and we had to at least spend a few hours at the 30th Anniversary of Bele Chere. We got there early and tried to cover as much as our tired feet would let us. It was clear that many artists early in the day were “Waiting for the Sale” and this painting reflects one such booth. I’m sure as the day went on the sales were there because we know we spent enough there!

waiting4theSale

Amazing Digital Arts Academy Workshop

July 29th, 2008

Just a quick note to say the the class I just taught at the DAA was amazing! My students were incredible! Thanks to all of you!

Painter X in Niagara Falls!

July 23rd, 2008

This is my third year teaching at Niagara School of Imaging and I am telling you it’s the best professional photography school I have taught at. The students are friendly and professional, the faculty is fantastic and the selection of classes amazing! The night activities are fun and the food is great. What more can I say?

Check out this post Niagara 2007 from last years class. And YES, we will be painting on finished canvas paintings with REAL PAINT! Embellishing the final prints after painting them digitally. This class is filling up and will be sold out soon, so don’t delay another minute and come join us!