Art Photography Course | Getting Started

Photography for so many people is about capturing reality and recording memories, but did you know that it is one of the most exciting mediums in art today?  Still, if you look deeper, you will also realise that a camera and the less-than-perfect photographic system itself are an incredible platform to create brilliant art.
 
In this course, the camera is seen as an instrument of the workbench to create art. Over many years, Martin Osner has developed mixed media and digital techniques that draw out an incredible artistic impression and deliver photographs into a beautiful creative space. Whether he uses the camera in the beginning, during, or at the end of the process does not matter. What matters is that the photographic process's characteristics, both good and poor, are used to deliver the art. The techniques you will learn are creative and unique.

This first set of workshops consists of five modules each comprising of a two-hour class, taught once a week. Classes are presented live over Zoom, and video recordings are shown to demonstrate techniques. Classes are small in size, interactive and workshop orientated where you will learn to transform your photographs into decorative art imagery fit for display and exhibition. Traditional art techniques like oil and acrylic painting, sketching, collaging, montaging, double exposure, and transfers are taught, both with and without digital photo editing. 

These comprehensive workshops do not require in-depth knowledge of photography; rather, it is more important that as a student, you have a desire to learn and explore photography as an alternative creative medium within the framework of art. One can find many a photography course online free, but this course has proved to be worth every cent.