Registration is now open at Digital Art Academy for Session Five fall session. Classes get underway on August 28th. Several new classes are currently being offered so check in daily to see what is new! Classes by Scott Deardorf, Marco Bucci, Kirk Nelson, Michael Cambell and Tim O’Niell are just part of the new classes being offered for session Five. Don’t miss the fun!
Register Now! These classes will fill up fast!
Marco Bucci- From Traditional To Digital-Painting Fundamentals
Join us for another great session at Digital Art Academy! Registration is now open and there are several new classes! For a list of all the best please click on the link below. Make sure you are logged in to register for your favorite class! Have a great Summer!
Learn to paint with ArtRage watercolors. These brushes are very adept at emulating traditional watercolor brushes and the digital artist will delight in the transparency and blending abilities of the brushes. Join me for four weeks of watercolor painting with ArtRage Pro. This class is appropriate for the beginner to intermediate student whom wishes to learn more about the watercolor brushes in ArtRage Pro. To register or for more information on the class please follow the link below.
Bamboo painting by Skip Allen
Open Studio starts in just a few days. This will be our last Open Studio until the fall. Join this wonderful group of digital artists as we study the art of Sumi-e painting with Corel Painter. Class begins on March 27th and runs for four weeks with a new lesson and video each week. Find out why students keep coming back to Open Studio year after year and experience the magic!
To register for Open Studio Sumi-e Painting click on the link.
Susi Lawson will demonstrate the dynamics of Photoshop brushes and how to change the brushes you have and how to create the brushes you don’t. This is a one hour webinar. Those who register for this webinar will receive $15 off on Susi’s new DVD. For the amateur as well as the professional this is a must attend webinar.
Date: Thursday March 4th
Time:
* 5 pm Pacific Standard Time
* 6 pm Mountain
* 7 pm Central
* 8 pm Eastern
Recently I read a post from a student that I felt was very important to answer basically they said once I sign up, pay the fee, what is next? At Digital Art Academy we try to make the experience very personal to the new student giving them the opportunity to work independently or as a group. Once logged in the student is taken to their “Dashboard” which is customizable to contain the tools that are most important to them. The Dashboard includes direct links to all the current classes they are enrolled in as well as messages and other customizable widgets.
Your classroom is available to you twenty four hours a day. No need to be in class at any specific time, you simply work at your own pace. Your lesson PDF and video can be downloaded and saved to your computer. Your instructor is there to support you and answer any questions you may have. Each classroom week has a forum area where you can communicate to your instructor.
Some of our instructors offer live sessions via Go To Meeting. These sessions give the teacher and students the opportunity to work together on a specific subjects or lessons to further enhance the learning experience.
So don’t be shy, enroll and enjoy an online class, great for seniors, young adults and kids! Have some fun and enroll in an online class today at Digital Art Academy.
Get Ready For Open Studio
Open Studio Winter Session will begin on January 30th! Nocturne painting is a visual language that is often used within realistic treatments (such as Realism and Impressionism) to depict scenes evocative of night or subjects as they appear in a veil of light, in twilight, or in the absence of direct light. Many artists develop their own methods to create nocturnes unique to their styles. The particular method or style that an artist chooses to paint a nocturne may not be limited to realism. Nocturnal depictions have also been shown within impressionist and abstract works. Nocturnes are usually, but not always, inclusive of landscapes and cover the gamut of artistic periods, generally stretching from the southern and northern Baroque period of the early 17th century to the present. Artists often use various methods to depict nocturnes: washes of color, impasto methods, and linear treatments.
This class will experiment with the concept of nocturne painting which will include landscape, portrait and abstract. You will work with several brush categories such as Oils, Acrylics and Chalk to name a few. This class is perfect for the student whom wishes to paint from reference images or from scratch.
Join the fun in this creative and nurturing online class Open Studio and tradition for more than four years! Enroll Now
February is Webinar month at Digital Art Academy and we pleased to bring you a great line-up of events from digital watercolor to creating beautiful portrait backgrounds.
Purchasing the digital watercolor bundle entitles you to attend all four webinars for the month of February. For more information and to register for the bundle package please click on the link below.
Digital Watercolor Bundle
Digital Watercolor Basics
Your Instructor: Karen Bonaker
* Explore the default watercolor brushes in ®Corel Painter
* What is the Watercolor layer? How does it differ from other layers in Painter
* Lifting a watercolor layer
* Wetting and drying the watercolor layer
* Explore the water palette and why it is key to emulating natural media watercolor
Fundamentals of Watercolor Brushes and Palettes
Your Instructor: Skip Allen
Session 2 will explore the fundamentals of your watercolor brushes. Students will learn the basics of creating a custom watercolor brush library, custom brushes and learn how to significantly speed up your watercolor brushes.
* Fundamentals of Watercolor Brushes and Palettes
* Creating a Custom Watercolor Brush Library
* Getting started creating a custom watercolor brush
* Explore the Brush Creator
* The key to speeding up your brushes
* Saving your brushes so they are secure from “Shift-Restart”.
Inventive Experimentation
Your Instructor: Karen Bonaker
This class is designed to teach the student the value of using inventive experimentation while learning how to control the water in digital watercolors. The instructor will demonstrate various techniques while creating a simple floral painting. Students will be encouraged to paint along with your instructor and share your final image at the end of the demonstration.
* Learn to paint watercolor illusions using inventive experimentation.
* Learn to control the water in digital watercolor, color transition, edge control and the use of textures and overlays to create beautiful digital watercolor paintings.
* Learn to prepare your palette and the practice of warm-up exercises before you begin.
Karen will show you how to create a simple floral watercolor using the techniques described above.
4-Watercolor Studio
Your Instructor: Skip Allen
In this studio session your instructor Skip Allen will show you the value of preparing your photos for watercolor and creating a sketch from an original image. You will learn how to isolate areas using channel selections and use multiple layers to achieve a desirable wet look. Students are encouraged to work along with the Instructor.
* Preparing photo for watercolor.
* Creating channel based on image luminance
* Creating channel in the clone based on selection from source image
* Creating sketch from original image
* Clone painting using channel selections to isolate areas
* Using multiple layers to achieve a wet look
* Finalize with details.
“Pears in Blue” Created with Skip Allen’s custom Watercolor brushes, by Karen Bonaker
Join us for some fun as Digital Art Academy presents a free one hour webinar showing you the practical uses for Skip Allen’s wonderful custom watercolor brushes.
Please use the link below to register for this event it is filling up fast!
Still time to register for your favorite class at Digital Art Academy. Don’t miss the fun. DAA is offering a free webinar for all new and current students. We will show you how to navigate your classroom and you will also get a sneak peak at our new DAA site coming soon. To sign up for the free Student Orientation follow the link.
