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.
Holiday Open Studio begins on Saturday November 21st. This is your invitation to join our last class of the year at Digital Art Academy. Join us for 4 fun filled weeks of creativity. Each week you will be presented with a new and creative project. Each class includes live sessions, and video instruction to enhance the written lesson. To sign up, or learn more about Holiday Open Studio please click on the link below.
Week One: Patri Feher: Art Card Design Workshop
For this special workshop I will demonstrate how I design and print A7 size fold‐over note cards, envelopes, coordinated, decorated writing paper and sticky‐back vellum embellishments. Printing cards can be a challenging and frustrating process. While it’s easy and cheap to produce an “ordinary” card, especially if you aren’t terribly fussy (and neither is the recipient) about the result. Homemade looking cards are often too amateurish for a perfectionist like me, and those digital Vista print cards are too pricey to order more than a few. Press‐produced cards are expensive and you have to print more cards of the same design than you need. For the same price, or less as a cheesy photo card you can design and make the most gorgeous, luxurious card “suite” that is a gift in itself. After five years of designing and printing cards‐ hundreds of cards, on Epson and Canon desktop printers I’ve got a system to produce cards quickly and cheaply (well, relatively cheap!). Half the battle is getting your printer to give you unmarred, perfect work. The “trick” if there is one, is getting around all the quirks, so I’ve designed print setup templates for Photoshop layered files for you to download. When you are paying a buck per fine art printing paper, and nearly that for an envelope you want a minimum of throwaways! Warning: most printers don’t like envelopes and the result is often smeared with ink, but I have a few simple tips that minimize smears as long as your rollers and print head are clean. Join me as we create beautiful greeting cards using your artwork.
Week Two: Karen Bonaker- Getting Creative with the Growth Effect in Painter
Have some fun experimenting with the Growth effect in Painter. Create beautiful abstract or landscape scenes with this illusive tool. Just in time for the Holidays apply your creations to Lesson One and create beautiful custom greeting cards.
Week Three: Skip Allen
Experiment with Shapes and Text and have some fun with brushes as well as Skip takes you on a fascinating journey in Painter.
Week Four: Karen Bonaker-Painting the classic snow scenes
Join Karen as she demonstrates several ways to create that classic holiday snow scene in Painter.
Registration is now open for Session Two Open Studio, the Wild Wild West! Open to all skill levels from beginner to advanced. This session we will be working on various images from the Southwest, Sedona as well as surrounding areas. Learn how to draw and paint horses, create your own Kachina and work with some fabulous images of the West.
Classes begin on March 28th!
This session DAA will introduce two new classes.
Diana Dillion’s Portrait Painting
Kirk Nelson’s Introduction to Painting with Photoshop
Click on the link’s provided to learn more about these classes.
Returning for Session Two!
Jill Garl’s Painted Petals
Diana Dillion’s Pet Painting
Karen Bonaker’s Advanced Auto-Painting with ®Corel Painter
Self Paced Courses:
DAA offers several Self Paced courses for your continued education. These classes are available for you to begin studying upon successful enrollment. Self paced courses open for registration on February 2nd. You will have eight weeks to complete your course.
Some of our Self Paced courses include:
Digital Print Embellishment with Anne Carter-Hardgrove
Creative Photo Effects with Les Meehan
Painter Brushes with Karen Bonaker
Introduction to Illustrator with Chris Price
Live Webinars- Painter Live
DAA is pleased to announce a Live Webinar event “Painter Live” each month DAA will host a live webinar event. These sessions are limited to only 15 students and are $25 per student for a one hour session. Sessions are recorded so the student has the option to save and view any time!
Our first session is called Watercolor Magic and will be presented on Sunday March 1st. For details please visit the DAA site
Welcome to another session of Digital Art Academy!
Classes begin on Saturday October 26th at Digital Art Academy! Still time to register for your favorite class! We have added several Self Study Sessions as well!
Our last class of the year is Holiday Open Studio join Jinny Brown, David Gell and Karen Bonaker for a festive holiday painting experience! Don’t miss the fun!