Under The Paso Sun

Roger L. Lee was part of a group art exhibit at the Castoro Cellars art Gallery May 1 - June 30. He exhibited his latest digital paintings that were enhanced with dry pigment and cold wax techniques. The collection is a continuation of the work started at Corkstop Studios, "Beyond The Print" series of workshops. The artwork was printed on digital canvas, stretched and mounted into custom floater frames.

Soul Man II, 2016

Digital Painting, cold wax, dry pigment Digital Painting, dry pigment

30”x24”

Big Sur, 2016

Digital Painting, dry pigment

22”x32”

An abstract arial image taken from a helicopter over the cliffs of Big Sur California enhanced digitally and enhanced with dry pigment.

Osos Sunset, 2016

Digital Painting, dry pigment

22”x32”

Ipad Abstract Painting

IPad Workshops/San Luis Obispo Museum of Art

March 2, 9, 16, 2013

The iPad Workshop at the San Luis Obispo Art Museum was a great event with a group of local artist having a good time learning how to use the ArtStudio App on the iPad.

"the day after" was created on my iPad reflecting on how I was feeling

iPad Drawing for Adults and Teens

San Luis Obispo Museum of Art

January 12/19/26   1-4pm

Members 3 classes $100, nonmembers $130

OVERVIEW//

Apple’s iPad has created an opportunity to create digital art using a very sophisticated direct pen-on-screen drawing and painting technique. With your iPad and a conductive drawing stylus you have the equivalent of a state of the art Wacom drawing tablet system. The ArtStudio iPad app has the capability to create fine art drawings and paintings. This workshop will introduce ArtStudios basic tools and techniques to create a variety of drawing styles. The class will be structured for advanced artists as well as the beginning student.

DETAILS//

• Visual presentations of the exciting realm of contemporary digital art

• Introduction of the basic tools and techniques used in digital art

• Video demonstrations of different drawing techniques

• Basic instruction of the ArtStudio App’s interface

       Menus: File, Edit, Image, Adjust, Select, Layer, Filters, View

       Toolbars: Select, Pencil, Eraser, Smudge, Blur

• Drawing demonstrations of class projects

• Individual tutoring for drawing projects

Have available printed photos and electronic files to be used as reference for projects

• Class critiques of completed drawing assignments

EQUIPMENT//

• Apple iPad with the ArtStudio App, with latest update

• iPad battery charger

• Drawing stylus

INSTRUCTOR//

Roger Lee teaches digital art and graphic design at Cuesta College in the

Fine Art Department. He has over 45 years of experience as a creative designer, artist, fine art print maker and educator. He has a Masters Degree from Stanford University.

Email  rogerlailee@gmail.com 

                                                                                          

Blog     http://digitalmonoprint.blogspot.com

Entrepreneurial Workshops for Artist and Designers

Turn your ideas, designs and art into profitable products using the latest processes and technologies. The digital computer and Apple’s IPad has open up many opportunities to design, develop and produce your ideas, art and designs. The Internet has created a way to communicate and market your creations. Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and Weebly have made it easy to connect with co-creators and customers.

Leap Frog Studios is developing a series of entrepreneurial workshops in the spirit of Hewlett Packard’s “start-up garage”, Silicon Valley’s successes, and Stanford University graduate school of Design. http://dschool.stanford.edu/index.php

Roger Lee, the founder of Leap Frog Studios, has been involved with all of these entrepreneurial enterprises. He worked as an industrial design manager for HP for over 14 years, founded Roger Lee/Design Associates, serving as a creative design consultant to many of the Silicon Valley start-up companies for over 20 years. He has a Masters Degree in design from Stanford University and teaches digital art in the fine art department at Cuesta College.

In the spirit of HP, Leap Frog Studios operates out of Roger Lee’s garage where he continues his creative energy by building an etching printing press, and currently creating fine art prints using non-toxic printing plates. http://digitalmonoprint.blogspot.com/ He has created a jewelry business using an innovative digital mold making technique with PMC material turning clay to precious gold and silver jewelry.

The latest entrepreneurial workshop will instruct you how to use your IPad to create a line of greeting cards and small art prints. In the workshop, participants will also construct a custom designed drawing stylus.http://leapfrogstudios.weebly.com

IPad Digital Art Workshop

Apple’s IPad has created an opportunity to create digital art using a very sophisticated direct pen-on-screen drawing and painting technique. With your IPad and a conductive drawing stylus you have the equivalent of a state of the art Wacom drawing tablet system that you can create hand drawn artwork with the aid of powerful computer software applications.

Leap Frog Studios will be offering a hands-on workshop that will introduce basic instruction on how to create digital art from your personal digital photographs.

The workshop will cover basic instruction using the ArtStudio Drawing App and construction of a drawing stylus for use on your Ipad. The workshop is intended for the beginning digital artist with limited drawing skills. The IPad has created an opportunity for more people to enjoy the digital art experience.

Workshop Agenda:

1. Basic drawing and painting techniques using the ArtStudio App

- drawing tools

- color scheme development

- blending and layering techniques

- importing digital photo resources

2. Construct a personal drawing stylus from carbon tubing and conductive foam.

Learn techniques using a precision drawing stylus for more artistic expression

3. Drawing process of using photographs as a source document for participants with little drawing and art experience

4. Create personal fine art piece

5. Print fine art gift prints with a HP Photosmart printer directly from your IPad over a WiFi network connection

Participants equipment list:

- Ipad

- ArtStudio Drawing App ( $1.99)

Date: Spring Leap Frog Studios TBD

Time: 5 hours

Fee: $100

Location: San Luis Obispo, CA

Instructor: Roger Lee, instructor of digital art at Cuesta College Fine Arts

Call 545-5972 or email rolee@cuesta.edu for more information and registration

Digital Art Workshop

This workshop is directed to the intermediate digital artist who would like to expand their capability with Photoshop. Each participant must have a laptop computer and Adobe Photoshop CS4 application. Bring visual source material (photographs, textures, sketches, paintings) for a composite digital art project you will be creating.

Day 1 November 21

Advanced Adobe Photoshop CS4 tools and techniques have created the opportunity for visual artists to explore compositing colors, textures, photographs, and watercolor washes into exciting digital art. The workshop will cover the following:

• Advanced layering techniques that allow the digital artists to mask, gradient blend and merge images in exciting new ways.

• Blending with layer masks and setting different blend modes between image layers to achieve dramatic visual effects

• Selecting parts of images by using different color channels and vector pen tool.

• Using refined edge tool to efficiently eliminate ragged pixilated edges of selections for merging multiple images.

• Coloring images with gradient blends

• Creating custom unique Photoshop brushes by defining brush presets

Day 2 November 22

InkAid coatings have created the opportunity to print inkjet images on alternative materials i.e. aluminum sheet metal, rice paper, art paper, silk, etc. Also images can be transferred to wood, plastic, glass, stone with “emulsion-skin” transfers. Coating a non-stick carrier sheet with acrylic gloss medium and InkAid creates emulsion-skins. Each student will print or transfer their digital artwork on a variety of surfaces. Aluminum sheet metal, rice paper and Arches printing paper will be provided. Artwork will be printed on a 17” Epson 3800 Printer with archival-pigmented inks.