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July 4-8 Digital Collage five day course taught by Denise Warfield . Below is a summary from Denise.
Hi!! I just wanted to let you know about a 5-day (1 p.m.- 3:45 p.m. ) course that I will be teaching at Common Ground on the Hill at McDaniel College July 4-8. The class will utilize Photoshop and will feature a pragmatic approach. Register through the website at the bottom, where you will also find other information about this wonderful summer experience. There are two weeks of music, arts and other courses, as well as evening lectures, concerts and networking, and an American Roots music and arts festival the weekend in between the two week-long sessions of classes. You can take courses for fun, or for graduate or undergraduate credit at McDaniel Collage. In my class, each student will use his or her own photographs to craft a fine art digital collage during the five day course. You all are welcome to attend! ~ Photoshop: Digital Imaging, Collage Student will combine photographs they bring to class using a variety of Photoshop techniques, to create a fine art collage. Students are asked to choose one of two projects. (1) a floral digital collage of their own floral/fauna photos, or (2) a family history collage using ancestry photographs and students’ own photographs of family members plus mementos (for example, a baby quilt, an old pipe, Lionel trains, etc.), or family quotes or other text selections.
Photoshop: Digital Imaging, Collage Student will combine photographs they bring to class using a variety of Photoshop techniques, to create a fine art collage. (Students should have some introductory experience using Photoshop.) Students are asked to choose one of two projects. (1) a floral digital collage of their own floral/fauna photos, or (2) a family history collage using ancestry photographs and students’ own photographs of family members plus mementos (for example, a baby quilt, an old pipe, Lionel trains, etc.), or family quotes or other text selections. Students should bring in at least a dozen or more of their best photographs of either subject. High resolution digital files are preferred, but prints, documents and actual small items (pocket watch, earrings, quilt, book, etc.) will be scanned to create digital images. Students will need to bring a 1-4 GIG portable flash drive on which to store their work. Students may use their own laptops if they have Photoshop CS 3,4, or 5 (not Elements) already installed. Each student will receive handouts on how to do these projects in Photoshop. The materials fee covers the inks and the large format photographic inkjet paper for the final project. Contact Denise at Denisebwarfield@aol.com before the class with questions or to discuss project ideas. All levels, limit 10 students, ages 16 and older. Materials fee $15.00.
Denise’s bio: Before turning to digital art photography and teaching, Denise Barnes Warfield had a successful career as staff photographer for the Catholic Review Newspaper, the weekly paper of the Archdiocese of Baltimore. Behind the lens, Denise was the eye of local Catholic culture, documenting stories from parish events to coverage of the visits to Baltimore by Mother Teresa of Calcutta and Pope John Paul II in the mid 1990s. . Denise’s photographs have been published internationally in Gente(People) Magazine in Milan Italy, Janson’s History of Art, and Time Magazine, to name a few. Eleven years ago, Denise began to work with digital photography and collage/montage, and studied with Larry Fink at the Cape May Photographic Workshops, and with mentor Susan Ruddick Bloom at the Maine Photographic (now Maine Media) Workshops. Denise creates fine art digital collages using her floral and fauna photographs, and personal and family art collages that capture the essence of family history. In 2006 Denise earned her MS in secondary art education at McDaniel College. She teaches Graphics and Independent Study photography at Westminster High School. She serves as volunteer moderator of the WHS Photography Club, and volunteers photographic services for local charities. Denise is married to photographer Owen Warfield, and the couple operates a small local photography business called Creative Imaging of Westminster.
Further details can be found at: www.commongroundonthehill.org.
