I will be teaching at the Canton Museum of Art – my home away from home as a child and the place I learned to love a printing press (my dad did all the printing when I was growing up on the little press in the basement – then, when they moved from the Case Mansion to the Cultural Center, he did it in the “back”, that smell, ahhh, happiness… yes) and appreciate good coffee, fresh clay, and playing hide and seek in the permanent collection.? It was a great place to grow up… I still call it the Canton Art Institute, Museum of Art sounds… more refined, but… just… not right.? Perhaps I will grow into it…

Here is my class schedule for the winter at the Museum.

ABC’s (Artist’s Business Cards)
2 Saturdays 12:30 ? 3:00 pm, Room 102
A-P4A1 Begins 10/17
Experiment with Photoshop or Photoshop Elements and make your own business cards. For beginning and intermediate students.

Create Greeting Cards
2 Saturdays 12:30 ? 3:00 pm, Room 102
A-P4A2 Begins 10/31
Use Photoshop Photoshop Elements to create unique greeting cards and postcards. For beginning and intermediate students.

Photoshop (Photoshop Elements)? Image Basics
1 Saturday 12:30 ? 3:00 pm, Room 102
A-P4A3 11/21
Learn to get the most out of your files WPA! (WebPrintArt!) This is a great course for scrap-booking! For beginning and intermediate students.

Drawing & Painting in Photoshop (Photoshop Elements)
2 Saturdays 12:30 ? 3:00 pm, Room 102
A-P4A4 12/5
Experiment with drawing and painting techniques in Photoshop (Photoshop Elements). For intermediate students.

To sign up for any of the classes: call the Museum at 330-453-7666
For questions and requirements (software/computer) call Li at 760-908-8665.

Caseys ABC

Casey Klhan (see below for his link) did this great card in our Photoshop4Artists Workshop ABC class on Dollstreet!? He had many striking paintings to choose from and this was a perfect choice for the design he created.? I love the texture and rich color, and the composition works well with the box of copy on the right.? So how did he do that?? Very simple in Photoshop!

First, open your file in Photoshop.

Next, create a new layer and with your Marque tool (Dancing Ants Tool) create a square and fill it with 50% grey

Now change the Layers Filter from Normal to Screen and play with the fill slider.? Wow, cool, eh?? You can also do this on the layer that your art lives on, but this allows you to play around indefinately without the fear of ruining your original layer.

You use any shape to make your lighter area, for instance, below I have created a layer with a 50% grey brush stroke.

This is what it looks like without the blue layer turned on and this is what it looks like with the layer showing (on!)

You could put some notes about the color blue in that space, or your grocery list – you can also fool around with the grey layer, maybe give it some soft edges by feathering, use a cool brush and distress it, add curlie-q’s, you get the idea.

Enjoy your day and Play, Play, Play!

Go see Casey’s wonderful work, click HERE