Agenda

3 sessions
Downloadable class


Through a combination of instruction, brainstorming sessions, reviews, and printing, you will create your own painterly images. Your two instructors, Dany Suk and Oliver Klink have been stylizing and creating images for many years, winning coveted awards and prestigious exhibtions. The instruction will touch upon source of inspiration, detailed start to finish demonstration, tutorials to learn the tools and hands-on exercises. You will leave the class with new source of inspiration to process your images.

Session One: 2 hour online class
Goal: What is Stylizing – Inspiration - Demonstration from start to finish
At the end of the session, you will have the Painter Essential software customized on your computer. You will also have seen the workflow from start to finish on stylizing images with a painterly look. And of course, we will share inspiration links (invaluable!)
Including in the download, you receive a cheat sheet with steps by steps workflow, so you can easily follow and use for practice.

Session Two: 2 hours online class
Goal: Hands on exercises, various techniques with Painter Essentials
This session is a hands-on exercise. The instructor will demonstrate steps by steps on how to stylize images. You will have a cheat sheet document as support material to follow along.
We will go thru 2 different techniques, using simple to more advanced features of Painter Essentials.


Session Three: 2 hour online class
Goal: Advanced Hands-on Exercises
We start the class by recapping some of the features we have used so far in Painter. Exciting is that we are matching these tools with how to be creative with your own images. Then, the instructor will demonstrate steps by steps advanced techniques, involving redirection of light, integration with Photoshop. Same process, you will have a cheat sheet with steps by steps so you can follow along.
This online class contains information that you are not likely going to find anywhere else. The instructors have perfected Painter techniques to be used on photographic images!

Upon registering for the class, you’ll receive a download with a detailed coursebook, and step by step cheat sheet.

Download (Study at your own pace)
Session 1: 2 hours (Setting up Painter Essentials, Demonstration 1)
Session 2: 2 hours (Demonstration 2 & 3)
Session 3: 2 hours (Demonstration 4)

Logistics

This downloadable class includes:
- Recorded three online sessions with two instructors
- Detailed cheat sheet with steps by steps approach to stylizing images
- Hands-on exercises + lectures

REQUIREMENTS
- No prior knowledge of Painter Essentials required
- Install and configure a pressure sensitive tablet
- You will need to purchase (or download a 30 days trial version) of Painter Essentials. The software used is platform independent (Mac, PC)
- Software and hardware can be purchased at Amazon (search for Wacom tablet and Corel Painter Essentials) or click here. Or if you already have a tablet, purchase/download just Corel Painter Essentials v7.


If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to call Oliver Klink (408-910-6701) or email oliver@incredibletravelphotos.com

Instructors

Dany Suk is a fine art photographer. He served as a president of Palo Alto Camera Club. His interest in painting inspired him in 2010 to explorer Corel Painter as a tool for photography. During the last nine years he developed his own painterly photographic style based on the tool.

Oliver Klink is a fine art photographer based in Los Gatos, CA. He was selected as B&W photographer of the year (2018) by Dodho magazine, the Best” Emerging artist in 2016 by BWGallerist. Cultures in Transition body of work was selected as Top 50 Critical Mass Award (2016 & 2018). His image, “Herding Instinct” won the grand prize at the Rayko International Photocontest in 2014, others have received “mentioned” in the Black and White Spidar Awards for the past 5 years. “Processing images with a personal style is a passion. You can relive what you saw at the point of capture with your artistic mind”, says Oliver.

Stylizing Overview

Six Options to learn the Stylizing technique

	Teaser	Foundation	Mix Styles	Portraiture Styles	In Depth	Live
Registration	$99	$79	$500	$500	$700	$400
Intent	Teaser to “painterly” Images	Foundation with Full version of Painter	Broad Appeal “painterly styles”	Deep dive into “portraiture styles”	Private guidance to master “painterly styles”	Paint along the Instructors - Refining techniques
Downloadable Class	✓	✓
Group Sessions			4	4	4	5
Private Coaching Sessions			1	1	3
Painter Essential v7	✓
Full Painter 2021		✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Hands-on Exercises	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Workspace Customization		✓
Stylizing Workflow		✓
Learning Brushes and Textures		✓
Installation of Custom Stylizing Brushes		✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Brushes (Advanced Features)			✓	✓	✓	✓
Redirecting Light		Intro	Advanced	Advanced	In Depth	Adaptive to style
Painting Styles			Four Unique Styles	Four Unique Styles	Five Unique Styles	Five Unique Styles
Workflow integration with Photoshop			✓		✓ ✓	✓ ✓

Stylizing and painting will open venues that you thought were unreachable with your photography. You will learn new tools to add creativity, flair, light, stories to your images. You might think learning this knowledge as a departure from photography, but on the contrary it is a new way to interpret your images … with photographic and artistic views.

As photographers, we strive to “make” images that are different and exhume a “personal” feel. Where do you start? Where do you get inspiration? How do you go about making unique images? What tools do you need?

The Stylizing classes are about “discovering” your inner artistry and teaching you the tools that will turn your images into masterpieces. Each class will open new frontiers and get you closer to a “painterly photographer”.

The Stylizing – Teaser, is self-explanatory. If you want to tip toe in the world of stylizing, this is the class for you. Over 3 sessions, we will teach you how to use a set of tools (Corel Painter Essentials v7) and to process your images with a new workflow. You receive step by step explanations and hands-on exercises to turn your images into a painterly photograph. If you plan on continuing down the stylizing path, you will join the Stylizing-Foundation class.

The Stylizing-Foundation is the beginning of your journey. You will learn the basics to create stylized images from the full version of Painter (Painter 2021). We make the learning experience unintimidating by focusing on the tools that blend photography and painting. We do have hands-on exercises that get you up to speed with the use of brushes, textures, and painterly strokes. Included in the class is a private lesson, where we coach you and give you feedback on your newly found skills. The Stylizing-Foundation class is the jumping point to the exciting additional classes.

We offer three options to keep learning new skills. We are using a well-known methodology that painters are embracing: Inspire – Teach - Practice – Review. Each class focuses on a “painterly style”. You receive a base image (“the practice image”), a style to replicate (“the model”), instruction delivered thru hands-exercises/how to videos and detailed cheat sheet (“the recipes”), and candid feedback when you mimic the style on your own images (“your master piece”).
You can take the classes in any orders, after you have gained the foundation knowledge first.

The Stylizing-Mix Styles have a broad appeal. We teach styles such as ethereal, abstract, we add skills with thick paint and impasto techniques. The emphasis is on broadening your skills so you can find your own style. There is one private session, where you get invaluable feedbacks on how you are progressing.

The Stylizing-Portraiture Styles is an exciting class, as we tackle turning portraits (photographs) into exciting painterly rendition. We teach another set of styles such as classic, contemporary, loose painting, abstract and ways to refine your brush strokes. The emphasis is to inspire you to combine styles and create unique portraits. During the one private session, you will receive additional inspiration specific to your “painterly photographs”.

The Stylizing-In Depth focuses both on learning new styles and be coached, a critical part of your journey. Over seven sessions you will master your newly found skills. You will gain deeper knowledge and a better understanding of becoming a “painterly photographer”. The continuation class is the Stylizing-Portraiture, where you will learn how to tackle painterly portraiture.

The Stylizing-Live is about creating a painterly image in 2 hours, getting feedback, and comparing your work with a community of like-minded “painterly artists”. The instructors will demonstrate steps to one possible rendition, explain the choices made, how the brushes were used, and give tips/tricks. When the demo is done, it is your turn to paint. We will have checkpoints each 20 minutes, where all the students show their work in progress, we give feedback and provide additional tips. Then we continue “painting” until the next checkpoints and eventually the final rendition. Each session is unique, as we use different set of brushes and textures, techniques related to the style, and tips and tricks that you can apply to your own images.

“Painterly Styles” description

“Painterly Styles”

	Foundation	Mix Styles	Portraiture Styles	In Depth
Learning Painter 2021	✓	Advanced Features		Advanced Features
1. Abstract Landscape		✓		✓
2. Impasto		✓		✓
3. Ethereal		✓		✓
4. Composite		✓		✓
5. Thick Paint		✓		✓
6. Abstract Portraiture			✓
7. Loose			✓
8. Classical			✓
9. Contemporary			✓	✓

1. Abstract landscape paintings
Abstract landscape paintings are both abstract and a landscape. This method of painting can involve a great deal of creative expression either by altering scenery that exists in real life or by creating an imagined setting. Some artists abstract the landscape by breaking it down into simple colors and shapes.

2. Impasto paintings
Impasto is a technique used in painting, where paint is laid on an area of the surface in very thick layers, usually thick enough that the brush or painting-knife strokes are visible. Impasto provides texture; the paint appears to be coming out of the canvas.

3. Ethereal paintings
The word “Ethereal” is defined as an adjective, describing something:
1. Light, airy, or tenuous: an ethereal world created through the poetic imagination.
2. Extremely delicate or refined ethereal beauty.

4. Composite paintings
Composite paintings in Corel Painter refer to images that were constructed from two or more different photos or other Painter images. Most composites are done by layering images one on top of one another and then masking out the unwanted pieces using different methods.

5. Thick Paint paintings
Thick Paint brushes in Corel Painter offer a natural-media experience with look and feel of thick paint and traditional impasto. They can help an artist to paint beautiful images by adding depth, texture, or movement regardless of whether he or she is creating traditional art, photo art, or illustration.
Thick Paint brushes apply paint that you can blend, build up, push, pull, and scrape. Artists can use these brushes to create dry and semi-transparent brushstrokes, reveal or hide paper texture, and blend brushstrokes naturally.
In addition, artists can displace and carve paint, creating indents in the brushstrokes.

6. Abstract Portraiture
In abstract portraiture many of the facial features are abstracted out, color modified or removed and sometimes the person is hardly recognizable.

7. Loose
Loose painterly style has a loose and expressive approach to the process of painting in which the brushstrokes are visible and small details omitted. The edges of the shapes are often blurred. Painters achieve this style by applying large brushes which makes it impossible to paint very small details.

8. Classical
Classical painting style is referring mainly to the style of renaissance painters. During that period painters didn't have the bright colors available today. Their colors were muted, often earthy brownish ones. They also used often dramatic light when part of the face was lit and the other one very dark. The background was often dark as well.

9. Contemporary
Contemporary painting style is not easy to define. It is often very expressive and in which painters project their own emotions onto the canvas. It often elicits strong response of the viewer by forcing her to try to decode the mystery and the intent behind the painting.