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Summer Digital Art Summit-More New Webinars!

Karen Bonaker — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:01:58 +0000

Hello!

Great news! We have another NO COST webinar added to the mix! My friend Daniel Tardent from Beautiful Artist Websites is going to share some awesome information on how to get people to see your website. I am on vacation and wont be home until late tonight. I will send the details in a later post.

The first paid webinar with Odwin Rensen is tomorrow! There is still time to sign up and we have a few seats left.

Even if you don’t have time to participate live the event will be recorded so you can access the video when you are free.

Here is the link again for your convenience.

http://www.digital-art-summit.com/index.html

Check out all of the artists that are participating, there is something for everyone.

For those of you that have already purchased your webinar seats remember that the link for the webinar is sent out 24 hour before the event.

See ya there!

Tim

February is Webinar Month at Digital Art Academy

Karen Bonaker — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:02:55 +0000

Digital Watercolor Webinars

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.

Watercolor Webinar Bundle

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

Webinar 1- Watercolor Basics

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

Webinar 2- Fundamentals of Watercolor Brushes and Palettes

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”.

Webinar 3-Studio Session

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.

Webinar 4-Watercolor Studio

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.

Free Webinar- How To Use Skip Allen’s Custom Watercolor Brushes for Painter

Karen Bonaker — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:37:52 +0000

“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!

Custom Watercolor Brushes

A Webinar Event, All Things Painter with Painter Master John Derry

Karen Bonaker — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:33:31 +0000

Digital Art Academy is proud to present a live webinar event on Friday, August 28th at 11:30 am Pacific Daylight time with Painter Master and Corel Painter Ambassador John Derry.

You design the content of this session with John! John will be taking topic submissions which you can add once you are registered for the webinar. John will organize the webinar around the most requested topics. Painting, printing, portraiture…ask away! Don’t miss out on this opportunity to ask one of the original Painter authors your questions. John will also share a few of his—shhhh!—secret Painter techniques with attendees. You come away from this session with new insights and get your creative Painter juices flowing.

Webinars are live events and easy to join, don’t miss the fun! Space is limited so sign up now.

Live Webinar Event- The Great Face Paint with Painter Master Marilyn Sholin

Karen Bonaker — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:50:24 +0000

DESCRIPTION

This webinar will only concentrate on painting faces, hair and skin in multiple methods. You will learn at least three different ways to paint faces, eyes, hair and skin. Each method will leave a different painterly effect and it’s up to you to practice and see which one is right for your paintings. While this will concentrate on painting from photo reference, the methods of painting will vary. The same image will be used for each lesson to impress the differences in the finished painting effect.

As a special bonus, the set of brushes Marilyn uses in the webinar will be available as a free download in the Digital Paint Shop and on Marilyn’s Blog after the webinar ends. Also, a special discount will be arranged on all of Marilyn’s educational materials for 24 hours after the webinair ends and the discount code will be given at the end of the presentation.

Date: Monday, June 8th
Time: 7 pm Eastern
Register Now

Shortly before the event you will recieve a confirmation from Go To Webinar. We look forward to seeing you at The Great Face Paint!