Artistic Growth

Have You Ever Wondered What Taking An Online Digital Art Course Would be Like?

Tweet         Pink Lotus Revisited by Joan A Hamilton   How are you doing? What have you been up to lately? (Why haven't you been blogging?   How often are you asked these questions? Pretty often, if you are like most people. How do you answer?…(continue reading)

Into Week Three Already of Summer Open Studio at Digital Art Academy.

Tweet Some new links to previous posts on using digital watercolours that you can check out before Friday's Live Session for Summer Open Studio. (They are at the end of the post.)       I can't believe we are into the third week already. I'm still trying to learn how…(continue reading)

Taking My First Online Art Course is a Great Experience... So Far

Tweet    Summer Open Studio Flowers at Digital Art Academy   Hi Everyone,  I've been taking my first ever online art class at Digital Art Academy over the last couple of weeks. It’s called Summer Open Studio and it's on painting watercolours of flowers. One of my…(continue reading)

Is possible to paint digital watercolours with the same characteristics as traditional watercolours?

Tweet  Work in Progress Orchids One by Joan A Hamilton      This is the big question I have been asking myself and working on for several years. Why don't I just do "real" watercolours is a question I have been asked many times. Because I'm stubborn I guess! lol! What…(continue reading)

A Personal Loss Sparks a Change in my Art

The past couple of months have been difficult for me.  Spending time away from home to be with my aging, failing mother and the worry over that, to her death a short time ago on February 28, 2011 seems only a short time, but I have felt disconnected and discontented from my art for a about…(continue reading)