Karen McCall

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From Drab to Fab
Presented by Karen McCall, M.Photog, M.Artist, Cr, CPP, ASP

Monday, March 6th


Setting up your Wacom Tablet and Painting Tools to be successful in your digital art.
We will learn the set up your tablet and take the mystery out of the tablet shortcuts
● Which one should I get?
● Customizing your Pen
● Keyboard Shortcuts and how to set them up
● How to use a portion of your tablet

Photoshop painting tools and how to use them.
● The mixer brush
● The smudge tool
● Setting up your toolbar
● Which brush should I use?
● Which blend modes should I use?
● Where to find brushes and how to load them.

About Karen McCall, M.Photog, M.Artist, Cr, CPP, ASP

Karen lives in Natick, MA with her husband and 2 sons and 1 golden doodle. Karen started photography many moons ago with film and negatives. She earned her masters degree in 1999 and was certified in 2004. After a painting class with in 2016 she was truly able to create like a child again.

In 2019 she earned her Master Artist Degree and Image Excellence Degree. Now it’s time too give back. She earned her craftsmen degree in 2020 and loves teach and mentoring. Karen Has won numerous awards since she has been painting as well as 7 GIA nominations Diamond / Double Diamond photographer with 17 loan image in the past 2 year. Karen is a World Cup Finalist this year.

Karen’s achievements include:

Diamond Award 2019,
Image Excellence Degree 2020
6 loan image 2019, 5 loan images 2020
4 GIA Nominations 2 perfect scores of 100. 2019, 2020
1st & 3rd place in ASP’s Images of Distinction Artist Category 2020
1st & 2nd place in Northeast Districts Artist Category 2019
5 Grand Imaging Finalist in Northeast District 2021
Highest Scoring image PPAM 2019, 2020, 2021
ACI Award in MA 2019, 2020, 2021
ASP Award MA 2019, 2020, 2021
CPP Award 2019, 2020, 2021
Excellence Award PPAM 2019, 2020, 2021
Creative Award PPAM 2018, 2019, 2020
Court of Honors 2017, 18, 19, 20, 2021
Sunset Award 2017