Foreword, Preface and Acknowledgment, Starting Off: The Goal, What You’ll Need, Preparation, What’s What and What’s Where, The Four Guiding Principles: Simplify, Organize, Optimize, Document, Painting: Expressive Portraits, What is a Portrait? Fundamental Principles, Warm Up, Loosen Up, The Line, Form Through Tone, Color!, Creating a Focal Point, In the Style of Other Artists, Creative Improvisation, Gallery, Animation and Artistic Transitions: Playing with Process, Painting over a Painting, Revealing a Photo, Painting on Video, Last Resort Rescue and the Background Script, Photography: Painting & Smearing, Coloring & Tinting, Water Color, Oil Paint, Oil Pastel, ‘Warhol’ Screen Print Look and Reverse Texture Technique, Screen Print and Serigraphy Effect, Woodcut, Distress Dynamism, Mosaic, Motion Blur Business Card, Gallery, Collage: Strategies for Collage, Song for Peace, Telling Your Story, Gallery, Design: Balance, Strategies for Design, Working with Text, Working with Pattern, Gallery, Appendices: Painter, Photoshop and Illustrator and Which Software to Use When, Printing Your Images, Moving Between Computers, Resources, Trouble Shooting Tips, About the Author, Glossary, Index