Digitizing Watercolor: Creating Art Prints in Photoshop.
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eVideo

English

2017-04-25 12:51:00

Hi! I am an artist and surface designer living in the Bay Area. I create prints, patterns and products using motifs that are hand-drawn or hand-painted from life. Most of the inspiration for my work comes from the endless visual variety around me in California -- from flowers in the cracks of the sidewalk to stunning landscape scenes off the freeway, the everyday beauty here is inescapable! I love the magic that digital tools like Photoshop bring to my artwork. I paint something that catches my eye, then I create a pattern out of the painting. I can make it repeat in endless ways, I can change the colors, mix in other motifs, add different effects, you name it. Once it's printed, whether it's on a pillow or a duvet cover or even a dress, that moment of observed beauty becomes a tangible part of your everyday experience. There's nothing like it!

Learn how to take that painting out of your sketchbook and turn it into a reproducible art print! Designer and artist, Cecelia Murphy, shows you her technique for scanning artwork, touching it up in Photoshop, and transforming it into a giclee print. This fine art printing format allows you to create high-quality multiples of your artwork, perfect for selling on Etsy or at craft fairs. Perfect for Photoshop first-timers, Cecelia shows you how to use your painting as a jumping off point to enhance color, achieve brighter whites and even add digital paint brush strokes to improve and stylize your painting. This digitizing technique is ideal for watercolor artists, but also works well with artwork made in other mediums.

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