Joan A Hamilton's Digital Painting Site News

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

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:07:39 CST

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 take you to a large version to watch in my Screencast Library.

Leafy Tree With Splatter Brushes link to video

Hope you enjoy looking! Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

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

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:40:54 CST

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 a few brushes to begin to paint a digital watercolour sky. It covers using,

How to Wet the Entire Watercolour Layer plus a few other tips and techniques involving layers and a few other simple things from the Effects menu.
Watercolour and Digital Watercolour layers,
How to Dry Watercolour and Digital Watercolour layers
How to Lift the Entire Canvas to a Watercolour Layer
How to Wet Entire Watercolour Layer
How To Apply a Non-Destructive Texture layer

Enjoy,

Painting Trees with Digital Watercolours

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 09:44:07 CST

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 gold on top of the green Splatters. Because I applied the splatters with the Pick up Underlying Colour box checked, then painted on top of it with the Preserve Transparency box checked (and PUC unchecked) the nice leafy edges and sky holes were 'preserved.'

I will be teaching this technique...and much more!

Please consider joining me to learn to get the most out your digital watercolour experience! I have lots of tips and techniques to show you. I know it will be lot of fun, because the classes I've taken at Digital Art Academy are taken by (and given by too! lol!) friendly, helpful, and really nice people! Everyone is so encouraging and supportive, no matter if you are really new at it, or have some previous experience.

So, what are you waiting for...head over to Digital Art Academy and sign up to begin learning how to paint a simple landscape in digital watercolours (by that I mean using all the Watercolour variants in Corel Painter, Skip Allen's great brushes and John Derry's amazing Digital Watercolours!)

Hope to see you there!

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

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:13:27 CST

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 your creativity for your soul to be content.You may be interested in digital painting, or you probably wouldn't have signed up for my newsletter! Why not start the creative side of the year off with a course in learning to paint with digital watercolours? Make this the year you do it, instead of just thinking about it!

My new course at Digital Art Academy "Learning to Paint Elements in the Watercolour Landscape with Corel Painter 12" will start January 28, 2012 and run for 4 weeks. For $10.50 a week ($42.00 total) you will learn things to get you well on your way to painting beautiful watercolour landscapes. Registration starts December 31, 2011.

Have a look at the course description and syllabus by clicking on the link above. Feel free to email me with any questions or concerns. (Yes, it can be done with Painter 11... is a big one I'll answer right now.)

An added bonus is that registered student will be eligible for a Student Discount for John Derry's Watercolour Brushes. They will be available from John for $24.95 - a $10 savings! A couple of John's brushes will be included in my Custom Brush sets with his kind permission. I should point out that these brushes are Digital watercolours and other variants and not the Wet Watercolours or Real Watercolour variants.

Please join me as we explore this exciting new medium. You will be pleasantly suprised at how fun and easy it is once you have the tools and have mastered a few basic skills.

Have a great New Year!

Cheers,

Here is a little Video excerpt from the course... how to paint a leafy tree using digital watercolour dabs and splatters and a fine tip digital watercolour brush.

Enjoy!

This link will take you to a video in my Screencast Library. It was too large to embed in the blog. You can see things better here!

Leafy Tree With Splatter Brushes

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

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:29:59 CST

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). An unexpected twist occurs in this, which takes the sky from boring to dramatic in a few bold strokes. Watch and see how it happens!

The video highlights why it's important to use Layers in painting digital watercolours and How to Transform a Layer, and change the opacity of it.

Many of the videos will have PDF's with further written explanations to accompany them.

The video quality for blog size is not nearly as clear as the ones produced for the course.

Please note: The Custom Brush Sets that will be available in the course will not be uploaded to this blog until the course starts, however, many of the brushes I consistently use have the brush settings posted in the blog somewhere.