A WIP

WIP = Work In Progress

I am thrilled to be taking a class this week with Marilyn Sholin – she is a Master with Corel Painter X, and a lot of fun! The 5 day class in being held by the Niagara School of Imaging in St. Catharine’s Canada. We are having a blast in our class – I have to think that it is the most fun of all but all the students I’ve met are really liking their classes. Most of the students are professional photographers, and there is a full range of classes.

I first heard about Painter when I saw a YouTube video from one of Marilyn’s classes

It looked like so much fun – but I was pretty sure it wasn’t something I could fit in. But as fate would have it, she was teaching in a location that I could drive to, and the school even had a payment plan. Add to that the fact that I was already scheduled to take off for a family vacation that week, and the only thing I had to figure out was how to tell Tom and Morgan that I’d be bailing on Lake George for most of the family vacation. I am very happy to say they said they would miss me but that I should have a good time! And I can tell you I’m having a BALL!

Sunday was spent visiting several classrooms and listening to the teachers explain what they were going to be doing. All the teachers seemed very knowledgeable, giving and personable – all nice qualities and often hard to find together!

Marilyn also gave a talk and after dinner we went to our first evenings classes. What a long day – but I was too excited to feel tired. Mostly we set up our tablets and laptops so that Monday morning we would be set to go. Monday we started at 8:30 until 5 then 7 to 9 we were back in class working – here is one of my starting images, a photo I took at the Winchester Mystery House.

The next group are images which were manipulated to make the color variations

This last image is the way it was sent to the printer, after I worked with all the other images. It was printed this evening on canvas and tomorrow we get to work on the next step! I’m having SO MUCH FUN!

Time for bed – I’ve got to get up early!