Time to Make Supper Joan A Hamilton February 2009 Since it really is time to make supper and I’m hungry, I’ll post this now and talk a bit about it later. This has been moved to my new website and is available for purchase for $15.00 including S/H Direct link: http://www.joanahamilton.com/art/time-to-make-supper-5-x-5/
It has been a busy week, between marketing my art and producing it. I always seem to be torn between the two. Like most artists, I would rather paint than have to worry about selling it. Trying to find a balance between the two is essential for success. I have been researching the subject of [...]
This was painted on a blank canvas. It is not a photo manipulation, nor is it created using special effects or filters. It was painted stroke by stroke using Corel Painter 9.5′s digital watercolour, blender, chalk and pastel Brushes. I do use Contrast and Add Surface Texture from the Effects menu to adjust the [...]
This painting has undergone some very experimental changes in the background. I have scrapped the direction it went in yesterday because it would have been too much to do the whole background the way I started it. I am posting some Snag-It Captures that a show a specific technique anyway because it can be used [...]
I have added some Italian Watercolour Texture (how to do this is in the Printing the Apple Still Life Tutorial in the Jan. 6/09 blog) to my paper and am using a watercolour airbrush to add some pink glazing to the petal areas. Zoomed in here looks like real paper. I usually don’t add [...]
I’m having a hard time with the stems. It looks easy eh! Just green lines with a little light and shadow on them. I’m still using the fine tip dig wc and a tiny dig wc blender. After drying this digital watercolours you can use the regular blenders and what I call [...]
This is a small section of a work in progress. I am using the digital watercolour brushes, mostly a simple water and a fine detail water brush. The outline is sketched in a sharp chalk variant which I will blend in at points with a soft pointed blender. The next Illustration shows the brush [...]
An Apple for Sue Part of a grouping of Three You may order by contacting me through this site or my website at JoanAHamilton.com This painting has been revised. This is a photo of the old version.
This painting was done last January at the same time my husband had a heart attack. He obviously survived it and had a stent done. I called this piece “You Light Up My Life,” because I really wanted to tell him that at the time. It was a really scary experience as ‘life experiences’ [...]
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