Registration is Now Open for Session One at Digital Art Academy

Register Now for Session One

Registration is now open at Digital Art Academy for Session One which begins on January 2nd, 2010. It has been a wonderful year at Digital Art Academy with many new classes and teachers. We will continue to bring you the very best in online instruction in 2010! We thank you very much for supporting Digital Art Academy.

DAA is always looking for qualified instructors so if you have ever thought of teaching an online class please feel free to contact me for more information.

Taking an online class at Digital Art Academy is convenient , fun and easy! Study in the privacy of your own home. Many DAA classes also offer live online sessions where you can talk directly to your instructor as well as your fellow classmates. We are planning some wonderful webinar events for you by many of your favorite instructors such as John Derry, Skip Allen, Chris Price and Diana Dillion.

Some of our new classes for 2010 will be:
Art Rage
Dynamic Auto-Painter
Painter X Introduction
Paint With Me Live- Thick Paints!

Don’t miss the fun, enroll in an online class today.

Warmest wishes and a Very Merry Christmas and all the best in the New Year!

Karen

Studio Art Courses

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Studio Art at Digital Art Academy

DAA is forming several classes in the arts. In Session One, we will be offering two new courses taught by instructor Jennifer Swoboda.

Introduction to Color Theory

The course will introduce the student to the principles of color theory via an exploration of color families and their associations, color variations and an examination of the skillful distribution of color to achieve the desired impact. This class is appropriate for the digital artist as well as the traditional media artist and will help you to understand the basis of color in your paintings and how color can maximize the impact it has on the viewer.

Beginning Design

The course will introduce the student to techniques used to create sound compositions via an exploration of the design principles of balance, unity and variety, rhythm, and focal point.

Corel Painter Classes

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Introduction to Painter
Special Enrollment Fee $32

Digital Art Academy is offering a special enrollment fee of just $32 for Introduction to Painter! Don’t miss your chance to learn from the very best. Introduction to Painter is a Corel® Training Partner class.

You will find no better way to learn Painter. Each week enjoy live sessions and video to enhance the learning experience. Instructor Skip Allen will make you feel right at home as you learn how to navigate this wonderful natural media painting program called Painter.

Painter II: Intermediate

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Advanced Techniques a
new class at DAA!

Painter Creative Classes

Diana Dillion’s Portrait Painting II

A Journey Called Collage

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Journey Called Collage

Collage by Student: Barbara Bond

Join me for a Journey Called Collage. This class is an intermediate level course designed to acquaint the student with the principles of collage using Corel® Painter. Each week, you will be introduced to many creative ways to compose beautiful collage images suitable for framing. This course will include a live session each week, where your instructor will cover the lesson content and answer any questions.

Discover Painter Brushes

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Discover Painter Brushes

Brushes , Brushes there are so many brushes! How do I use them all ! Have some fun discovering some of the most popular Painter Brushes and learn how to use them in your creative process. This class is intended to introduce you to the various brushes in Painter, this is not a painting class. This is a ®Corel Training Partner class! But wait, there’s more! Enjoy a live session each week as part of your class introducing you to the new Painter 11 brushes!

Corel Painter and the Amateur Photographer

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Corel Painter and the Amateur Photographer

Corel Painter and the Amateur Photographer is a new class by Diana Dillion. You already know how to create a painting in Corel Painter, now it’s time to learn how to create your own photograph to paint with! This class is designed to help the hobbyist/amateur level photographer learn how to create their own beautifully lit photographs using all natural lighting! Learn the simple technique used by professional photographers to create beautiful lighting for portraits, still life and landscapes! Use your compact digital camera, or your SLR digital camera. Get ready to take lots of pictures!! Painting techniques in Corel Painter will NOT be covered, you are encouraged to use your own techniques. However, if you need ideas for painting, Diana will be there to help you along!

Photoshop

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Photoshop Classes

Introduction to 3D

Introduction to Photoshop

Introduction to Photoshop Two

Introduction to the Pen Tool

Creative Photo Effects

Mastering Image Correction

Introduction to Digital Painting

Introduction to Illustrator

Creating Storybook Albums

Self Study Courses

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Self Study Courses

Self Study courses are intended for the student who would like to progress at their own pace. Self study courses are available for you to enroll in now. Self Study courses close on January 29th.

Landscape Painting with Painter
Digital Print Embellishment
Painter Flowers
Creative Collage
Scan Your Garden

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Holiday Open Studio at Digital Art Academy

Get Ready for Holiday Open Studio at Digital Art Academy

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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.

Holiday Open Studio

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.

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Classes Begin on October 24th at Digital Art Academy

Paint With Me! Watercolors

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Paint With Me Watercolors is a new class at Digital Art Academy. This class is what we call a live studio class. Each Monday our class will meet live online and paint together for about an hour.

You will learn more about digital watercolors and how to paint with them in Painter. We will use not only Painter’s default brushes but many custom brushes as well. Every Friday our class will meet again to critique our work.

For a unique learning experience join me for Paint With Me! Watercolors.

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Featured Course-Creative Collage at Digital Art Academy

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Creative Collage
Instructor Elaina Moore-Kelly

If you want to learn some wonderful new techniques for creating great looking collage then this is the class for you. In this class, you will learn to incorporate a combination of collage and digi-scrap techniques to make four different projects. In the process, Elaina will teach you a few new tricks about Painter. Your finished projects will be suitable for printing, either to hang on your walls or to use for greeting cards.

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Registration is Now Open for Session Six at Digital Art Academy

logoDon’t miss the fun and try an online class today. There is no better time. For a look at some of our new courses please feel free to view our current newsletter.

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Register Now For Fall Open Studio at Digital Art Academy

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Classes begin on September 26th if you have never enrolled in an Open Studio class now is the time. Enjoy the expertise of many fine digital artists in a supportive and creative venue and learn how to create beautiful digital collage.

Instructor: Karen Bonaker
Skill Level: Beginner to Advanced
Class Length: Four Weeks, September 26th -October 23rd.
Software: Corel Painter 9.5 or higher

Enjoy a preview of digital collage.

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The process of collage can be simplistic or extremely complex, but how it makes us feel is the most important part of this journey. Come along and enjoy this time together as we begin our Journey Called Collage!

Before class, begin organizing images, textures and patterns. Create a folder where all your images are organized and can be found quickly when needed. Organize meticulously from the beginning. During Week 4 we will work on our own personal journey, so be thinking about this project and the images you want to include. Consider subjects such as family members alive or deceased, pets or anything that has great meaning to you.

Collage the Concept:

Inspiration:

You never know when inspiration will hit you. For me it often strikes sometime around 1am in the morning! This is why I keep a note pad on my bed stand, because just as quick as inspiration comes..it can be gone just like that! Where ever it happens to take hold of you, it usually is the beginning of a wonderful journey.

Once the thought is planted, where do we go from there? Collage doesn’t just happen. It requires that we look at the total concept. How can we integrate images into the completed work that might enhance the that beginning concept. What additional imagery do we need and to visualize how it will all come together.

During the next four weeks, I will refer to assembled images as collages, keeping in mind that in the field of art, assembled images could mean many different things, in two and three dimensions. Also realize that our imagery will be digital in nature. I am granting you complete artistic license. If you feel that a scanned in bubble gum wrapper is what is needed to complete the image, then by all means use it! We will begin using basic concepts and continue later with more complex approaches.

Before you begin an exercise it is important to think through the intended project. What tools will you need? What photos, textures, and other imagery will be required? Keep notes! Sketch out your ideas. And most of all, what is it you want to say? Are you trying to evoke emotion or mood? Take digital photos of all kinds of things, from rocks to dirt, you will be amazed at the spectacular textures you can create from your digital photos. If you own a scanner begin scanning a creating files for the objects you will be using for the four week session.

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

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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.

Register Now

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… and Here It Is!

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Welcome, everyone, to the new Digital Art Academy. We’ve been hard at work for the past few months to improve the site for you all and make the experience a a lot richer and easier.

There are a ton of new features including:

  1. Redesigned Interface
  2. Global Gravatar support
  3. Global “Sticky” Navigation
  4. Personalized Student Menu with quick access links
  5. Reorganization of the main site sections
  6. New and improved course catalog
  7. Tabbed course descriptions
  8. Student Blogs – use this feature to share your work with other students
  9. Image display resizing in case you forget to resize
  10. Real buttons in forum topics
  11. Multiple image attachments in class forums (max. 5 attachments per post)

Of course there’s more – navigate around and see if you can find everything. The site as a whole should be a lot easier to use.

As with any brand new site, you may run into a bug we didn’t catch during our private beta test. Please feel free to report those to us using the contact form (please do not put bug reports in the comments section, but do let us know what you think!). Also, don’t be surprised if things change from time to time as we continue to add enhancements. This giant first step is only that – the first step – in the continued growth at DAA.

With that – have fun exploring! Registration for Session 5 classes is officially open.

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First Week in Creative Collage

I’m just thrilled with some of the work being done in this class. The students are following the lesson instructions and then taking the steps well beyond the lesson. The final results are very gratifying and I think I’m having as much fun seeing what the students create as they are having in the creation. Here’s an example of some of the work being done. This scrap collage was created by Enny Jameson. Way to go Enny!

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Session Four At Digital Art Academy Begins On June 20th

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.

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