A Celebration Of Art! Impressions Of Nature is the latest in the video training series from Fay Sirkis. This series is for those who want to take their digital painting techniques to the next level. Other of the instructor's DVDs include Wild About Animals, Paint Like A Master, and Weddings, Portraits, and Faces.
Impressions Of Nature continues your education in using Painter X and Adobe Photoshop CS4 for creating digital artwork. In this video you will learn techniques on how to paint landscapes, seascapes, clouds, trees, rivers, flowers, and more.
A Celebration Of Art! Impressions Of Nature is contained on two DVDs that run 466 minutes (over 7.75 hours) and can only be used on a computer system. The author goes over the material in 51 lessons which can be divided into 16 topics of concentration.
Topic 1, "Landscape History" (two movies), begins with a short background on the painting of landscapes. Here you will see how it was done in the past as well as how it is changing for the digital age. You will see a breakdown of the steps that it takes to create a digital landscape painting. You will also look at the styles of Monet, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Kandinsky, Derain, Fauvist, Matisse, Picasso, Braque, Gris, and Hopper.
Topic 2, "Brush Dynamics and Resolution" (two movies), will show you how to set up your Wacom Tablet (something that is really a must for digital painting) and the options for setting up your brushes so that you can work efficiently. With resolution you will see how best to set up your images for output for a large size painting. That includes taking a smaller image size to where you can make it larger without losing quality.
Topic 3, "HDR Sandwich" and "Bonus Material" (five movies), examines how to convert your image to a higher dynamic range so you can bring out all of the shadow qualities. These techniques will show you how to bring balance to the colors throughout without having to do selections or other complex techniques. There is even a bonus image that you can use to work with your HDR Sandwich.
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