About Cher
Cher Threinen-Pendarvis started with a child's fascination with art, and graduated from college with a BFA with Highest Honors and Distinction in Art, specializing in painting and printmaking. A pioneer of the electronic medium, Cher has worked alongside other notables from the early digital era. Her digital illustrations have been published since 1987.
Cher is now widely recognized for her mastery of Painter and Photoshop. Her articles and art span two decades of influential books and periodicals. Her work has been exhibited in museums and art galleries in the United States and overseas. Cher travels the globe conducting workshops and specialized training for graphics professionals in print and broadcast media. She is principal of the consulting firm Cher Threinen Design, and is author of The Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book, Second Edition and all ten editions of The Painter WOW! Book and co-author of Beyond Digital Photography: Transforming Photos into Fine Art Using Photoshop and Painter.
Cher is the creative mastermind who made most of the brushes shipping with Corel Painter, and is a regular contributor to the Corel Painter newsletter, "The Painter Canvas."
Corel Painter Contributions
Read Entire Artcle: A View Into The History Of Digital Media: The Evolution Of The Pendarvis Paint Brushes
Written by Joe Nalven, Dec 19, 2012
San Diego Union Tribune Blog
Read Entire Artcle: A View Into The History Of Digital Media: The Evolution Of The Pendarvis Paint Brushes
Written by Joe Nalven, Dec 19, 2012
San Diego Union Tribune Blog
Awards
2012 Museum of California Design 2012 Henry Award
California’s Designing Women, Autry National Center, Los Angeles
2011 Best of Show: All Magazine Entries for “Steve Lis and His Fish,” 2011 San Diego Press Club Journalism awards
2011 Certificate of Excellence, First Place: Magazine Profile, 2011 San Diego Press Club Journalism awards
2011 Certificate of Excellence, Third Place: Magazine Feature, 2011 San Diego Press Club Journalism awards
2006 Certificate of Excellence from Bookbuilders’ West for Book Design, Illustration and Manufacturing: The Painter IX Wow! Book
2005 Certificate of Excellence from Bookbuilders’ West for Book Design, Illustration and Manufacturing: The Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book: Creative Techniques in Digital Painting
1998 Certificate of Excellence from Bookbuilders’ West, Instructional: Computer Technology, The Painter 5 Wow! Book
1980 Award of Excellence for Book Design from the San Diego Communicating Artists’ Group, Assistant Designer, A Land Called California by John Robert Dean
The Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book: Creative Techniques in Digital Painting using Wacom and the iPad, Second Edition is a one-on-one art class with Cher in book form.
The Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book, Second Edition can be purchased from the following vendors:
The 10th Edition of The Painter WOW! Book series is out. Extensive new artists galleries, tutorials and a thorough editing to reflect new changes to Painter 12 make The Painter WOW! Book educational and inspiring!
The Painter Wow! Book can be purchased from the following vendors:
By Cher Threinen-Pendarvis and Donal Jolley, Beyond Digital Photography takes intermediate and advanced Painter and Photoshop users on a journey of artistic expression. Many different techniques developed by the authors are carefully documented in this very first book of its kind.
