Being able to turn your own paintings into digital files that are ready for printing onto a product like a greeting card or tea towel is a fabulous thing.

Maybe you have a pile of designs already painted sitting there doing nothing as your unsure of that next step to make them into a printable file. Or maybe you have some brilliant designs in your head that you’d like to have printed on a product.

I’ll show you how to start at the beginning of a design, create a colour scheme, look for inspiration, practice some element ideas, collect them all into one lovely composition, scan and open the design in Photoshop, clean up it up, resize it and turn it into a file ready to send to a printer.

• The class will cover
• What materials you need
• How to make a colour plan and mix your paint
• Where to look for inspiration
• How to use your sketchbook to practice and collect elements for your design
• Creating and painting the design
• Scanning and opening the painting in Photoshop
• Using some Photoshop tools to clean up, resize and produce the design in a digital format

Through out the class I’ll share with you my tips and techniques for working with gouache to produce a bold graphic design that’s easy to turn into a print.

The class is for you if you:

• Have a beginners knowledge of painting with gouache
• Love the idea of creating a design from your own artwork
• Want to understand the process of turning a painting into a digital file
• Just want to explore painting with gouache more
• Want to learn some useful techniques in Photoshop for cleaning up and resizing your artwork.

So join me as I take you on a journey through my process of paint to print, by the end of the class you will have:

• An understanding of how to mix a colour scheme in advance
• Look for the perfect inspiration for your design
• Plan and practice the elements of the design
• Create your artwork in gouache
• Scan the artwork into your computer, open it in Photoshop and go through the process of turning it into a digital file ready for printing.