My Art Blog

Painting a Leafy Tree With Captured Dab Brushes Video Excerpt from my new course

Tweet   Here is a short video on using Digital Watercolour Captured Dab brushes to paint a leafy green tree. It is one of many videos from my upcoming course Learning to Paint Elements in the Watercolour Landscape starting January 28th at Digital Art Academy.   Here is a link that will…(continue reading)

Video Tutorial Excerpt from My Course - Another Video on Painting Skies in Digital Watercolour

Using Layers in Your Digital Watercolour Workflow Week 2 Video 3   This is an excerpt video from my course Learning to Paint Elements in the Watercolour Landscape With Corel Painter 12 which begins January 28, 2012 at Digital Art Academy.   It demonstrates simple techniques using only...(continue reading)

Painting Trees with Digital Watercolours

Tweet      Learning to Paint Elements in the Watercolour Landscape with Corel Painter 12   I just painted a tree I really like using the methods I will be teaching in my upcoming course     I like the way John Derry's Wet Blender allowed me to add the...(continue reading)

Registration for My Course Starts Dec. 31 at Digital Art Academy

Tweet   Hi Everyone,   Hope you have all had a lovely Christmas and are looking forward to a wonderful New Year filled with all the things you want most in life! Peace, health, prosperity, joy and happiness to name a few.   If you are like me, you want and need a way to express...(continue reading)

Video Tutorial Excerpt from My Course - One of a Series on Painting Skies in Digital Watercolour

Tweet      This is a little taste of some material from my course Learning To Paint Elements in the Watercolour Landscape with Corel Painter 12.   It shows a few of the techniques and brushes I use to paint skies using the wet Watercolour variants (Wet- Grainy Wet Abrasive)...(continue reading)

Get a Wet Into Wet Look With My New Digital Watercolours

Tweet  Wet Into Wet With Digital Watercolours? Is this possible? I discovered a way to get my digital watercolour variants to blend together with a really wet look. I can even add another colour that will blend a little with the colour already there and diffuse in. It looks a bit like...(continue reading)

Busy Working on My Course, NoTime to Blog, What Do I Do?

It's really quite a dilemma for me. On the one hand I want to keep my blog visitors interested and on the other I want to write a really good course. It all takes time and a lot of time is spent at this stage on getting the information into some kind of lesson format ie: a video, or a PDF.  I am...(continue reading)

Learning To Paint Elements in the Watercolour Landscape With Corel Painter 12 by Joan A Hamilton

Tweet  Announcing my new course:  I've been so busy focusing on how to make teaching videos (of sorts) in Camtasia Studio 7 that I forgot to announce that my course Learning To Paint Elements in the Watercolour Landscape With Corel Painter 12 was posted a few days ago!   As...(continue reading)

Painting Falling Snow With Corel Painter - My First Video

Tweet I got a little sidetracked from painting the Winter Birches demo. (I am still working on it and will post when I have more). Once I started making snowflakes, I needed some new brushes and decided to make you a video to show you how to paint falling snow with two methods I use: a wet method...(continue reading)

More Tips on Painting Snow - Adding Shadows and Dimension

Tweet   How to Reduce the Amount of Paint on the Paper   The above link is to a previous post on painting snow in watercolour. Skip Allen left a comment on it it today and reminded me of a great brush in his Real Watercolours 2 Brush set (these came out before Painter and are not...(continue reading)