Participants explore Photoshop's capabilities for image layering along with other software applications as the class works digitally in traditional art media, including watercolors, pastels, oils and charcoals and collage.
Susan Ruddick Bloom is known for her fine art photography. She uses alternative photographic processes and digital manipulation. Sue has been involved in making art on the computer for over twenty-six years. She holds a BFA and a MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She is Professor and Chair of the Department of Art and Art History at McDaniel College, in Westminster, Maryland.
In addition to her college and workshop teaching and exhibitions Sue leads photo tours throughout the world.
Sue's book, Digital Collage and Painting, by Focal Press, was released in 2006, and has been translated into Chinese and Russian. This 608 page book is seen as the Bible for digital collage and painting manipulation and is used as a text in college’s with a digital fine art curriculum. A second, revised version of that book, was just released. Sue is also the author of Digital Painting in Photoshop.
She is part of a four person show traveling throughout the US for over a year now. The show is all infrared photography and contains over 100 images. The work can be viewed at www.fourvisions.com.
Sue writes articles for leading photography magazines including Shutterbug and After Capture. She is a regular contributor to Australia’s Better Photoshop Techniques. She conducts live webinars on digital fine art with ReTouchPro LIVE. Her work may be viewed at www.suebloom.com.
