Digital Painting |
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GOAL: To successfully create a composition using scanned or digitized textures and one or two recognizable objects. Draw or paint into the composition using Painter's dry materials, blenders, etc., and color from a color set created from a color harmony. |
12" x 16" @ 150 ppi
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| 1. Collect textures and object(s) (1 or 2). Digitize. Remember that the collage file is 150 ppi so you may have to scale or resize your textures or images if they are scanned at a higher or lower resolution or are at a higher resolution from your camera. |
| 2. Open each file and turn it into a black and white image by going to Menu | Effects | Tonal Control | Adjust Color. Slide Saturation to minus (-) 139%. Save as a RIFF ( "file name_bw.rif") to maintain layers and smaller file size. |
| 3. Open one of your black and white texture files. Launch the paper palette (located at bottom of tool palette). Go to Menu Effects | Surface Control | Apply Surface Texture. Check paper in dialog box. Slide shine to 0%. Save with new name or remember the paper texture. |
| 4. Repeat Step 3 for all files using different textures. |
| 5. Open one of the textured (with paper texture) files. Make sure it is the Clone Source. Go to Menu | File | Clone Source. Then File | Quick Clone. Save often. |
| 6. Use the chalks, charcoals, pencils, air brushes, blenders to draw in the clone. Switch between clone color and no clone color. Stay in black and white. Save often. Work to balance values. Use value to create rhythms through the canvas. |
| 7. Add a new layer in the clone file (your painting file). Open the next textured file. Make it the Clone Source. Click on the new layer and connect it to your painting. Bring elements of the new second texture into your painting. Click on and off the tracing paper to bring elements into your painting. |
| 8. Select the Canvas Layer of your Clone (your painting) and float. Go to Menu | Select | Float. You will now have two layers, and you can switch back and forth with the clone sources and the painting. Make sure that you are in the layer that corresponds to the source. Name your layers to match your textures. Save often. |
| 9. Add a new layer to your painting and connect it with the file of one of your objects. Work it into the composition using the same techniques in Steps 3 and 6. |
| 10. Create a color set from the mixer pad using a triadic harmony (3 colors) or a quadratic harmony (4 colors). |
| 11. Draw and paint on layers. Flatten and work on whole. Reconnect to clone sources if desired and work back into image. Save often. |
| 12. Flatten final image. Turn this project in 2 parts: BLACK AND WHITE COMPOSITION due February 21. COLOR ADDED COMPOSITION due March 9. |