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Archive for January, 2009

Digital Watercolour Using New Techniques- “Time To Make Supper”

 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/

Is Copying Art to Learn Not Profit Acceptable?

What do you think of the practice of copying other artist’s work as a learning exercise? Please share your thoughts on this.

Thoughts on valuing original digital art

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 [...]

Digital Watercolour of a Golden Pear

  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 [...]

Alium Digital Watercolour in Progress Part Four

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 [...]

Alium Digital Watercolour in Progress Part Three

  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 [...]

Alium Digital Watercolour in Progress Part Two

      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 [...]

Alium Digital watercolour in progress from blank canvas Part One

   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 [...]

Pictures of my Framed original digital watercolours

     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.  

Improvement in my digital painting techniques!

  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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