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This course is for those who have never before created art. Yet it is also for the painter who feels it is time for a new direction both in career and in life generally. Moreover, many who take this course have no intention of becoming artists. They take it to gain a better understanding of themselves.
It is a course that instils confidence in the student. Because of the unconventional techniques taught to create exciting images, it demonstrates that sometimes there are alternative ways to solve problems and to enhance the quality of one's life.
Students learn about emotion. Emotion is real. They see why their emotions can enhance the art they create.
The techniques you learn are instruments through which you will learn to empower your emotions, gain peace and tranquility and equilibrium to your life.
How can this be? Creating art promotes self-esteem. You will study your self and others, You will create abstract portraits, metaphors for real people and thus understand and forgive their failings. You will look at your self as you have never been seen before.
Many great artists have asked, "Where did that image (or words, music ...) come from? It came from nowhere!" They imply that perhaps someone "from the other side" did the creating. A medium, perhaps? No so. The artist did the creating. It came from the subconscious.
There are images in YOUR subconscious waiting for the opportunity to be manifested. Most of us know the feeling of first love. It is beautiful. Combining photography and painting is the medium through which to manifest images stored in the subconscious in the form of Abstract Art.
So to "See your potential THROUGH ART"
First, the question of digital or film camera must be discussed. Either can be used. However, it must be noted that an inexpensive digital camera will not give the quality picture that a relatively inexpensive SLR camera will give. This should not deter those with an inexpensive digital camera. You are learning the art of combining photography and painting. If you decide to accept commissions etc, you can then decide which camera best suits your needs.
You will learn a new craft. You will use your imagination as never before, You will create images you never thought possible and transform your feelings into visual expressions. You will discover that your emotions have a profound influence on your creativity.
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A glimpse at a few topics in this course.
Combining photography and painting is art.
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The definition of photography is: The recording of light rays. So let us begin with
THE WONDERS OF LIGHT
You will see examples of paint applied haphazardly on a sheet of card. While the paint is wet, the card is photographed.
Above: Two examples of this technique.
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UNLIKELY MATERIALS INTO FINE ART
An essential part of this exercise is to understand how cross lighting (natural) brings an arrangement to life.
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Naturally, there is far more information in
SEE your potential THROUGH ART.
We hope what you have read and seen here will prompt you to send for details of this art course. A tutor is here to quide you through the various chapters.
mailto:chapters.editor@cressidastransformations.com
CONTENTS
The Power of Emotion
The Wonders of Light – manifesting shapes and colours.
Combining Photography and Painting
(Protocols)
Images from unlikely materials
Painting on Photographs
Abstracts
Portraiture
Painting Faces Version 1
Painting Faces Version 2
Photography Techniques
WHY COMBINE PHOTOGRAPHY AND PAINTING?
Soon after photography was invented in 1839, artists began to colour black and white prints and plates in an attempt to re-create the colours of nature. Painting and photography came together for the first time but artists stayed within the boundaries of reality. For most it was unthinkable to do otherwise. Abstract art was in the future, nearly seventy years away.
This was an era of changes and confusion in art. Photography had seen to that. Many historians believe that contemporary art is the result of the invention of photography. It was an era of Impressionism, Romanticism and Post-Impressionism. Artists were exploring and discovering. Painters came to terms with the reality that photography was a relatively inexpensive form of portraiture and thus rendered many portrait painters with few or no commissions. Necessity made them turn their attention elsewhere.
In 1900, Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, published "The Interpretation of Dreams" a work that interested many artists - poets, sculptors, painters, writers, actors ... Images of the mind - dreams, feelings etc, were subjects for exploration. In the 1910s came Abstract Art that would dominate Western art in the 20th century. These two events were instrumental in helping to lure some artists to look at photography in an artistic light. In the 1920s a school of painters began to absorb photography. They transferred the photographic image to canvas. Photography recorded reality. Abstract art transformed emotion into shapes and colours. They combined what the eye sees with the images of emotions.
Countless artists have combined photography and painting using several different techniques. Today, scientific research into the subject of emotion has established that the mind and body are one. It is a reason for a portrait artist to combine photography and painting. This is why, today, a portrait that combines photography and painting is so vibrant, so alive, so compelling.
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