We start live from my personal desktop painting with Corel Painter X!

Starting at 5pm Eastern. Go REGISTER NOW!

See the Corel Painter interface and how to manage auto-painting and colors! So many options! Which are the best ones to choose? What BRUSHES to paint with! So much more. Don’t miss this special one time only presentation!

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Here is a sneak peek at the real live book! I can touch it, feel it and read it. Lark Publishing sent me an advance copy of the book. It is awesome. I can’t remember seeing any other books on Painter X that had so many full color paintings in it and an incredible art layout (by the amazing Tom Metcalf!). My editor Matt Paden had the patience to deal with me on a day to day basis as we edited this baby. Next step is to get all the images used uploaded so you can do the tutorials right on the exact same images used in the book! Then compare your results to what you see in the book.

Watch the video and go BUY NOW Books ships in January so be sure to put it on your holiday gift wish list and buy your favorite digital artist one too!

The Beginner Corel Painter X Fall Workshop presented in Asheville had students attend from all over the globe. We had attendees from New Jersey, South Carolina, Tennessee, North Carolina, Canada, Florida and Washington,DC and two of the attendees were originally from Sweden and Great Britain. What a great group of artists! At the end of the two full days it was agreed that their heads were throbbing and the information was leaking out their ears. But look at the amazing paintings they all went home with!

Workshop Environment

Mike (on the left) has a great post about the workshop on his Improv Blog with a close-up of his painting.

If you would like to take a Painter X Workshop send an email or comment and we will add you to our workshop mailings or just subscribe to the blog to get all the news.

On Thursday October 2nd we had a blast with Alyson B. Stanfield the “Art Biz Coach” as she set out a plan for our small personal group of artists at our Asheville: State of the Arts workshop. I hosted this group and was lucky to get Alyson to take the time out of her busy schedule to do an evening workshop for us based on her new book “I’d Rather be in the Studio”. Alyson gave us all tips and valuable marketing help on the business of being an artist, branding and professionalism and to continue creating.

  Alyson with myself as hostess with the workshop room in the background.

Alyson and me with Jeffrey Stoner.

Alyson with Joe Gemignani and Shelley Lieber.

Our Blogging for Photographers and Artists Workshop is coming up later this week, but we are offering a last minute limited time special deal to forum members of the Digital Painting Forum, The Digital Art Academy and the No BS Success Forum members!

$100 OFF the workshop fee to the first few to email me and sign up.You need to email me your LOG IN name and which forum you belong to and in return you will get the Discount Coupon Code to register!

The info, dates and registration information is all HERE and the Workshop is being taught by website and blogger expert Chris Price. You can see even more info at Chris website.

In this packed two days you will be up and running and have learned how to quickly update your site and how important blogging is to your business!

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September 18, 2008

Dear Artist,
Short and Sweet Reminder of the upcoming workshops and opportunities here in Asheville at our Asheville: State of the Arts Workshops!

Come to One Workshop Stay for More

Beginner Painter X

Only a few seats left!
BEGINNER PAINTER X  October 5-6.
Register NOW! It’s filling up fast!

BLOGGING WORKSHOP with CHRIS PRICE!
You have all been asking for this one & we won’t let you down. Come on down for the blog workshop & and stay for the Beginner Painter X. We put it all together for you to come learn how to blog and paint at the same time. October 3-4. Register NOW!

Alyson B. Stanfield the ART BIZ COACH

ONE NIGHT ONLY two seats left! A very special evening and reception with the incredible original ArtBiz Coach. October 2: 6-9pm
REGISTER ME NOW!

The course I moderated at the Digital Art Academy is now available as a Self Study Course. This means you work on your own and are not moderated by myself or anyone else. All the tutorials, movies, brush sets (for each lesson!) lessons, sets of resource images and goodies are all there for you to download and follow at your own pace!

This course will only be offered until January 1, 2009 at which time it will end and become part of Marilyns archived tutorials for purchase in her sets of lessons. Join the DAA now to take advantage of this course and enjoy the benefits of being a Digital Art Academy student!

REGISTER FOR SELF STUDY DIGIAL PAINT BRUSH

Here is a full description and also one of the promo images explaining the first lesson.

I am excited to present this self study course at DAA. You will find that this class will be fun and should bring beginners into the world of Digital Art and the more experienced will learn techniques and new ideas for creative art. What you need most of all for this class is IMAGINATION and after that Corel Painter X. We will be doing lessons that are ONLY applicable to Painter X. So if you do not have Painter X, download the FREE 30 Day Painter X for your platform.
We are also going to using Alien Skin SNAP ART to create layers that will bring new dimension to your art. Alien Skin SNAP ART also have a FREE 30 Day download, so again, wait till class starts to download and install it.
A Wacom tablet is truly the only way to be painting. A mouse can be used, but I highly recommend a Wacom Intuous 3 6×8 tablet as the minimum for painting.
Each week we will be working on a different subject. You may use your own images or the class reference images. It is highly recommended that all your own reference images be 8×10 @ 250 dpi as the minimum so you can truly see what you are painting. Smaller or lower resolution images make it difficult to see the brushstrokes and also hard for you to see details.

The Line Up for the Four Weeks:
Portraits: New techniques to speed up your portrait paintings and simplify them
Landscapes and City Art: Learn ways to improve your non-people art
Painting with Vibrant Color: Ways to look at color and add more color depth to your paintings
Texture and Finishing Touches: Adding texture to paintings and a variety of finishing touches
Once we finish a weeks lesson we will NOT be going back to it. These are Four SEPARATE lessons.

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.

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

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!