We are dedicated to making these subjects understandable, and the learning experience fun and inspiring. Some students call our workshops “life-changing”. Come see for yourself.
ONLINE WORKSHOPS, are offered in a private Yahoo Group “classroom” so you can learn in your own comfortable environment, at your own pace, and participate in classroom critiques and conversations only according to your comfort level. Some courses are all PDF based, some are all video, and some are a mixture of both.
You upload your assignments to your own folder in the Yahoo Group (if you want to), and learn from the instructor's comments about your work and that of the other students. Sharing is a very enriching part of this type of learning.
The Instructor is available daily through the Yahoo Group Classroom.
Photography is an art form, and now that we all have affordable digital cameras that can do magic tricks, we can learn the art of photography.
Our emphasis in this workshop is to make the most perfect photographs we can *in* the camera, not to shoot any old thing and hope we can fix it later in the computer. We use editing software only for resizing this time around.
Beautiful photographs were taken for a long time before there was a PhotoShop or computer - and with cameras that had a lot fewer features than we now take for granted. The same techniques still apply, and once you know what they are, you will be able to take advantage of all the creative potential you hold in your hands, when you hold that digital camera.
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But most of us don't know why we are pleased, exactly, or how to produce artwork of our own that has the ability to please others, and also make us feel pleased with ourselves.
You do not have to know photography nor have a fancy camera to take this workshop, but we feel photography is the best vehicle for exploring the elements of design, and the intricacies of why design elements work together the way they do.
It is much easier and less time consuming to shoot photos to practice composition than it would be to create multiple pieces of other types of artwork, but in the end, the same principles apply. Enhance all your art endeavors through this workshop, and perhaps add photography to your creative tool box at the same time.
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Once you learn how to pull memorable detail out of your everyday environment and how to commemorate that detail visually on the pages of a journal, your art life will never be the same.
An art journal created with loving care and meaningful content is a treasure that helps you commune with your muse on a regular basis and actaully have a little personal "art" time every.
This is an all video workshop in which we create a page together every day for 21 days - long enough for you to form a wonderful new and creative habit.
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My photography students all know that I am a stickler about “photographs” being created with cameras - not computers, and we spend many weeks and months learning how to create great photographs with our cameras.
But, for times when there is just no way to get the shot right in the field, having Photoshop/Elements skills at the ready can save the day.
Editing means "fixing" in such a subtle way that the photograph itself is not changed, but only enhanced to be the best it can be.
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In Photo Editing 1 we were introduced to the basic tools and the basic editing prodecures to fix what is wrong with most photographs.
In this course, we go on to explore more sophisticated editing procedures for more challenging photographic problems - learning to fix things with the tools the pros are apt to use - but still without changing the essence of the photograph.
This workshop even includes a foray into photo Note Card Design using PhotoShop and Elements.
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Drawing is easy. And you already know how. We will show you where that knowledge is hiding, pull it out and dust it off, and put it to good use, while having lots of fun in the process.
This 3 Week/9 Lesson, video online workshop will not only teach you how to draw paint, and sketch things that look like what they are, but also how to add some creative thinking along the way.
Working in a journal or sketchbook removes the intimidation of blank canvases and serious intent, and allows you and other students to explore possibilities without fear of failure.
This workshop and its sequels, replace the previous Drawing 101, 102 series.
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