1st Edition

The Digital Renaissance Classic Painting Techniques in Painter and Photoshop

By Carlyn Beccia Copyright 2014

    The Digital Renaissance teaches you how to translate the methods and skills found in traditional art to the digital medium. By covering fundamental painting principles and the basics of digital software, before moving into tutorials that break down key techniques, professional artist Carlyn Beccia teaches you how to use the tools at hand to paint your own works of art.

    Each chapter showcases one great painter and analyzes the techniques that set each one apart. These techniques are then imitated in step-by-step tutorials, allowing you to achieve amazingly convincing results and bring your own work to new creative heights.

    Please note: the website printed in the book [carlynpaints.com] is no longer valid. Please find the author's dedicated book page at: http://www.carlynbeccia.com/carlynpaints/thedigitalrenaissance.html. Also, the excercise downloads referred to in the book at: http://www.carlynbeccia.com/carlynpaints/downloads.html

    Introduction:

    01: Michelangelo: Digital Fresco

    02: Leonardo da Vinci: Sfumato

    03: Caravaggio: Chiaroscuro

    04: John Singer Sargent: Alla Prima

    05: Mary Cassatt: Capturing Light

    06: Paul Cezanne: Planes of Color

    07: Pablo Picasso: Cubism

    08: Georges Seurat: Pointilism

    09: Gustav Klimt: Decorative Elements

    10: George Stubbs: Folk Art Landscape

    11: August Renoir: Impressionism

    12: Frederic Remington: Textural Art

    13: Georgia O’Keefe: Abstract Watercolor

    14: Henri Matisse: Playing with Perspective

    15: Arthur Rackham: Pen, Ink and Wash

    16: Roy Lichtenstein: Digital Melodrama

    Glossary

    Biography

    Carlyn Beccia is a practicing digital artist, and awarding-winning author and illustrator of Who Put the B in the Ballyhoo?, The Raucous Royals, and I Feel Better with a Frog in my Throat. She also teaches digital painting to children and adults, and recently published Digital Painting for the Complete Beginner. She lives in Massachusetts with her family.