V. VanGogh

Who? What? Why in Photo class?

Vincent Van Gogh was a late 1800s post impressionist painter.

He was very prolific making around 2000 paintings in his life time! He is very famous for many reasons including namely:

His amazing art that saw things in so many different ways!
It is possible that he was undiagnosed with "‘Xanthopsia’, that is, an overriding yellow bias in vision, can be provoked by many disorders other than the reddish-brown filter of nuclear sclerosis, which most famously affected Monet" (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3693787/)
- - This would explain the beautiful colors he saw and why his paintings often have yellow overtones.
He was undiagnosed with depression and bipolar disorder, causing him to have bouts of happiness and severe depression.

Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night, 1889. Oil on canvas.

Vincent van Gogh painted The Starry Night in 1889 while he was staying in Saint-Paul asylum in Saint-Rémy, France, where he lived for a year following a breakdown and the mutilation of his left ear. Painted with oil on canvas, the artist attempted to capture the view from the window in his room. (https://www.artandobject.com/news/starry-night-takes-center-stage-van-goghs-cypresses-met)

Step 1

Starting the App (PS)

To Make a new PS document:

New File

File > New > Size it this way
1. width 11 inches
2. height 8.5 inches
3. resolution 300 pixels/inch

SIZING YOUR CANVAS

Step 2

Click on WINDOW > WORKSPACE > PHOTOGRAPHY

Step 3

Click on the BRUSH tool

Step 4: Understanding the BRUSH tool

HOW TO CHANGE BRUSH SETTINGS

Click on the brush tool
- Options listed on the top of your screen (size, brush settings panel, mode, opacity, flow, smoothing...)
- click on Brush Settings Panel and a menu will appear on the right side of your screen.
to change brush settings include:
- - - size
    - edges
    - style
    - opacity