As photography advances along the digital highway, photo artists ironically look back for new ideas. Painting on photographs is a technique as old as photography's origins. Developed to soften the 'mirror like' qualities of the daguerreotype, the tradition of handpainting (handcoloring, handtinting) is now more popular than ever. Manipulation software opens tremendous new possibilities for creative image making. A visit to a stationery store or a poster website will quickly confirm the popularity of the handpainted style.

Painting photographs is a four week course exploring various recipes for applying painterly effects to your photos. Painting Photos responds to the 'hands-off' process of digital photography with 'hands-on' recipes. While our digital hand selects, masks, and guides the pen or mouse, the painting photos process is more tactile. As photo artists we'll shape, sculpt, pick, and smear. This course explores the painter's world, although you need not be an artist or a crafty person to join. Painting photos encourages even the most nimble fingered to try painterly styles. Join me and learn how to say something else, something more, and something personal with a painted photographic technique.

Looking for an identifiable technique to establish personal style? Do you want to use photography to unleash your artistic temperament? Do you want to WOW your audience? Painting photos provides lessons on borders, Polaroid transfers, handpainting with a digital brush, and handpainting on a digitalized inkjet print and more. Each weekly lesson concludes with original and fun assignments worthy of hanging as art on your walls.