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.