AFTER THIS CLASS YOU’LL BE ABLE TO:

• Beat “creator's block” by practicing exercises to help you overcome it
• Conceptualize a series that nails story, emotion, and connection
• Execute a low-budget, high-impact photoshoot for your series
• Edit your images for series cohesion and seamless compositing
• Brand yourself and your art into a story that others can connect with

ABOUT BROOKE'S CLASS:

Creating a fine art body of work can be daunting when you consider that a great series has innovative ideas, cohesive editing, and an undeniable connection to an audience. During this class, Brooke will walk through the entire process of creating a fine art series, from conceptualization, shooting, and editing to branding and pricing. The success of a body of work comes from the artist’s ability to go beyond the connection to an audience; it must land in the heart of the viewer and then instill a call to action within them. Brooke will lead you through not only how to make your work relatable, but how to take that extra step to become unforgettable, and ultimately, sellable.

WHO THIS CLASS IS FOR:

• Intermediate creators who want to focus on personal work and find a deeper level of creating.
• Creators who not only want to tighten the cohesion of their work but ensure that the full depth of meaning is communicated.
• Artists who want to learn simple yet effective ways of creating a body of personal work.

SOFTWARE USED:

Adobe Photoshop 2020 (v21.2.4) and Adobe Bridge CC 2020 (v10.1.1)

ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR:

Brooke explores the darkness and light in people, and her work looks at that juxtaposition. As a self-portrait artist, she photographs herself and becomes the characters of dreams inspired by a childhood of intense imagination and fear. Being the creator and the actor, Brooke controls her darkness and confronts those fears.

After studying films for years in college, she realized her love of storytelling was universal. She started photography then in 2008, excited to create in solitude and take on character roles herself. Brooke works from a place of theme, often gravitating toward death and rebirth or beauty and decay.

Ultimately, her process is more discovery than creation. She follows her curiosity into the unknown to see who her characters might become. Brooke believes the greatest gift an artist has is the ability to channel fears, hopes, and experience into a representation of one's potential.

While her images come from a personal place of exploration, the goal in creating is not only to satisfy herself; her greatest wish is to show others a part of themselves. Art is a mirror for the creator and the observer.

Brooke's passion is storytelling, and her life is engulfed in it. From creating self-portraits and writing to international adventures and motivational speeches, she wants to live a thousand lives in one. She keeps her curiosity burning to live a truly interesting story.

*This course contains artistic nudity.

• Class Introduction
• Overview of Brooke’s Journey
• Your Timeline is Nonlinear
• Using Curiosity and Intention to Build Your Career
• What Factors Dictate Growth
• Organic Growth vs. Forced Growth
• Niche Branding
• Brooke’s Artistic Evolution and Timeline
• How Can You Get Ahead if You Feel Behind?
• Ideation and Conceptualization to Identify Meaning in Your Art
• Idea Fluency
• How to Represent an Idea
• How to Innovate an Idea
• Creating a Dialogue With Your Art
• Conceptualization For a Series vs. a Single Image
• Transforming a Single Image Into a Series
• How to Tell a Story in a Series
• How to Create Costumes From Fabric
• Brooke’s Most Useful Costumes
• Using Paint and Clay as Texture in an Image
• Create Physical Elements in an Image
• Shooting for a Fine Art Series
• Conceptualization: Flowery Fish Bowl in the Desert
• Wardrobe and Texture
• Posing for the Story
• Choosing an Image
• Conceptualization: Rainy Plexiglass
• Posing for the Story
• Creating Backlight
• Photo Shoot #1 - Creating a Simple Composite
• Photo Shoot #2 - Creating a Dynamic Composite
• Photo Shoot #3 - Creating a Storytelling Composite
• Shooting the Background Images
• Editing Samsara Shoot #1 - Working With Backgrounds
• Editing Samsara Shoot #1 - Retouching the Subject
• Editing Samsara Shoot #1 - Color Grading
• Editing Samsara Shoot #1 - Floor Replacement Texture
• Editing Samsara Shoot #1 - Final Adjustments
• Editing Samsara Shoot #2 - Cropping and Editing Backgrounds
• Editing Samsara Shoot #2 - Selective Adjustments
• Editing Samsara Shoot #2 - Adding Texture + Fine Tuning
• Editing Composite Shoot #1 - Compositing Models
• Editing Composite Shoot #1 - Expanding Rooms
• Editing Composite Shoot #1 - Selective Color
• Editing Composite Shoot #1 - Selective Exposure
• Editing Composite Shoot #2- Masking Into Backgrounds
• Editing Composite Shoot #2- Creating Rooms in Photoshop
• Editing Composite Shoot #2- Compositing Hair
• Editing Composite Shoot #2- Global Adjustments
• Editing Composite Shoot #3- Blending Composite Elements
• Editing Composite Shoot #3- Advanced Compositing
• Editing Composite Shoot #3- Cleanup
• Materials for Alternative Processes
• Oil Painting on Prints
• Encaustic Wax on Prints
• Failure vs. Sell Out
• Create Art You Love and Bring an Audience To You
• Branding Yourself Into a Story
• The Artistic Narrative
• Get People to Care About Your Story
• Get People to Buy Your Story
• Getting Galleries and Publishers to Take Notice
• Pricing For Commissions
• Original Prints vs. Limited Edition Prints vs. Open Edition Prints
• Class Outro
• Live Premiere
• Live Premiere: Layers of Depth 1
• Live Premiere: Layers of Depth 2
• Live Premiere: Q&A
• Live Premiere: Photo Critique