CGSociety is hosting an 8-week workshop with Don Seegmiller on “Fundamentals of Digital Painting”.  It’s not an introduction to Photoshop, but rather a somewhat advanced class showing the use of brushes, textures, and patterns, making it more of a “learn basic painting” class.

There are so many different ways to approach digital painting that it would be virtually impossible to cover them all in these eight weeks. This workshop is designed to give you a good solid foundation for creating your own digital paintings using some simple yet clever methods. As your skill and experience increases you will be able to build on the exercises and principles presented in this workshop to achieve results you may not have thought possible.

via CGWorkshop: Fundamentals of Digital Painting.