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Prepare to be amazed! This is for artists of any media even if you don't own a computer. And especially if you do!

Make your artwork easier using Photoshop and a 'Wacom' pen.

Actually paint on a computer using the Painter program.

Don't feel isolated by the Geeks! Learn some buzzwords, become more familiar with terms and techniques.

Alice will provide a broad and fast overview, through numerous examples. See how the popular program Photoshop can be used to try out ideas from a photo of your artwork-in-progress without having to scrape, waste paint or waste time. All of your creative work stages can be made easier, faster and without changing your style or media. Experiment with your compositions or try a whole new color scheme in seconds. Let the computer do it!

Painting on a Computer? Magically simulate the textures and qualities of any media: oils, watercolor etc. Your photos can be enhanced in Photoshop and become artistically transformed using Painter's cloning tools.

Alice Freund, MFA, whose paintings hang in local museum, civic and private collections, specializes in creating pastel, mixed media and digital portraits. Her illustrations are used for publications and PR. She also paints quick portrait sketches on a laptop for entertainment at business and private receptions. Alice continues to discover the excitement, awe, and frustrations of creating and enhancing artwork with computer graphics software; and upon occasion, incorporating digital and 'natural media' in a painting.

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Artist's statement "What does acrylic feel like when it touches canvas? How far does that color go? What is matte-medium and isn’t a brush just a brush? Can you draw over acrylic? My technique is not about re-creating the Mona Lisa, but playing with a basic “limited palette” while incorporating some decorative collage elements. Different drawing media will be used to create fun and sketchy elements. In this demo I will be using the core tools that are the diving board to a mixed-media creation."

Jaya King is a local artist who has been showing and demonstrating her work throughout the Bay Area since 2003. Based out of San Martin, Jaya paints with gouache on scrap lumber that has been heavily worn and blemished by weather and time. She would describe her style as "intense portraiture" that mirrors the moody compositions of sadly expressive figures and the forgotten buildings of America’s past. Recently, Jaya has catapaulted herself to the opposite end of her painting spectrum. By replacing the under-dog with a dog, she has begun to explore a more colorful, light-hearted and yes, ridiculous "nature" of painting. Bold acrylic colors and decorative collage techniques on canvas are a breath of fresh air. Inspiration comes easy when you can look outside and smile. Like her work in gouache, the stories flow easily when the brush meets the canvas and the creatures seem to "speak for themselves". She continues to push the envelope in her own style by following a path of inspiration and understanding through creation.

Jaya has been professionally painting for ten years, showing throughout the Bay Area. At age 24 she was invited to do a solo show at Stanford University and is in the permanent collection at the Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara. She is now represented by Nieto Fine Art in San Francisco.

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In art, as in life, things are never quite what they seem. One way of understanding a work is to find the clues that reveal the work’s true meaning. These are the Hidden Symbols of Art, and they reveal to us what and how the people in the times of their creation thought and felt. The key to interpreting the meanings embedded in art from antiquity through the modern age will be explored in this lecture by Triton Museum of Art Chief Curator, Preston Metcalf. Preston Metcalf is blessed with the ability to recognize great art, but cursed with the inability to produce it … that is why he is a curator and art historian. He began his career as a Curator of Art at the San Jose Museum of Art. He then moved to the Triton Museum of Art, first as Curator of Education, then as Assistant Director for several years. Preston then went on to become Executive Director of the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art. He has lectured on art and art history throughout the country and abroad. He has had published more than sixty articles and essays on artists and art history. After a brief interlude of teaching and writing, he returned to the Triton Museum, where he now works as Curator of Art. He also teaches Art History at Mission College, San Jose City College, and the Triton Museum of Art.

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