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Into Week Three Already of Summer Open Studio at Digital Art Academy. 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 to loosen up! Oh well, I guess it will take a while! (Actually I think I'm past the age of being be a loose woman! lol!) Dumb jokes, I know, but I didn't want you to get the wrong idea about me!
The Second Week 's focus on Negative painting culminated on a fantastic live online session in which Skip Allen, demonstrated some of his new Real Watercolour brushes. He skillfully and artistically painted a whole painting (almost to finish) in less than an hour! His use of selections and channels will be a very useful tool for me to finally learn. Watercolours are all about layers and building things up from light to dark or sometimes vice versa. Using channels will give me much more control over my layers.
Here is one from further on in the negative painting experiment ... things were getting a little wild in places here, but it sure was fun just trying things and not worrying (too much) about how it came out. Much of this was so unplanned so major compositional errors happened. Did most of these gold washes with a wet wc of some kind, can't remember specifically which one. Was one of Karen's I think .... Canvas Toner?
 I like the feeling of this one, although it wasn't meant to be finished at this point. I'm definitely going to explore this colour scheme a little more.
 I finished it off and posted it in the Post Assignment area : This is what I said, "
This poor thing had 20 iterative saves, and probably 50 saves and I still crashed 4 make that 5) times.
I'll post a few stages on my blog! (Here they are) It ended up with all sorts of problems, the chief being the light and shadows. (The stamens are pretty awful too.) I did have lots of fun (at points, at others I wanted to cry!) What do you think of the 'floating" paper and the faux mat? I printed something like this once and it really fools the eye quite convincingly! lol! Looks quite blurry at this resolution and size though. I'm always thinking how something will look printed and it has influenced my style. I found cleaner crisper edges and subtle textures tended to print better, but am excited about trying some different styles.
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Some Fellow Student Work:Claudia Pendlay a very nice artist who has a new and attractive blog about her painting at Claudia Pendlay Art has given me permission to post her lovely Magnolia painting produced in the class.
 Magnolia's by Claudia Pendlay - posted here with her kind permission.
For Session Three the challenge is to incorporate other media such as chalk, acrylics, conte or pastels into the watercolours. As Karen said to one student because we are painting digitally, we have more options and could even use oils and watercolours in the same painting. I'm going to be doing a short presentation in the class on using the Digital Watercolour Variants in Watercolour paintings. It's been awhile since I used them, and I haven't built all my custom digital watercolour brushes in Painter 12. I hesitate to reload my Apple set to 12 because for some reason they were crashing me in P11 (after loading P12 trial version). There have been so many new other kinds of watercolour brushes to try out and get the hang of lately....excuses, excuses. The DWC still have their uses in the watercolour repretoire!
If you are here from Summer Open Studio you should check out some of my posts on using digital watercolour variants.
 Related postsCommentsJoan said: Hi Jackie,
Monday, June 13th
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Jackie Jacobson said:
Joan: I love what you have accomplished. Great work with negative painting. I'm really impressed with the top one, where you used the gold washes. There is not way that I could tell that this was not painted with "real" water.
And as for your floating paper and faux mat...I really like them. Now you must share how you made them.
I'm absolutely impressed with your skill at watercolor. Thanks for sharing your process.
Jackie