Don’t miss this one hour webinar with Painter Master John Derry. John will explain and demonstrate techniques for creating amazing portraits with Painter. A one-hour demonstration won’t turn you into an expressive portrait master, but it will provide you with an organized basis for diving into this exciting and rewarding artform. In addition, we’ll have a 10-minute Q&A following the demonstration. A video of the webinar will be available to attendees following the live presentation.

After the Q&A, an attendee’s name will be drawn at random. The winner will receive a copy of my lynda.com Painter 11 Essentials DVD.

If you’ve wanted to give portraiture a try, but haven’t known where to start, then this webinar is for you!

The Introduction to Portraiture webinar is $20. You can get started by clicking on the PayPal sign-up button below. If you don’t have a PayPal account, an option to pay via credit card is offered as well.

Please remember, after you enroll, you must wait for the redirect to GO To Webinar where you can register for the event.

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.

Digital Art Academy

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.

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

Your classroom is available to you twenty four hours a day. No need to be in class at any specific time, you simply work at your own pace. Your lesson PDF and video can be downloaded and saved to your computer. Your instructor is there to support you and answer any questions you may have. Each classroom week has a forum area where you can communicate to your instructor.

Some of our instructors offer live sessions via Go To Meeting. These sessions give the teacher and students the opportunity to work together on a specific subjects or lessons to further enhance the learning experience.

So don’t be shy, enroll and enjoy an online class, great for seniors, young adults and kids! Have some fun and enroll in an online class today at Digital Art Academy.

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.

Sooooo, I thought it was high time that I started this blog, even if only in an effort to find my way around here!

My drawing course is now in its third week at DAA, and I have to say that it’s been one of the most rewarding experiences ever for me. I’ve been completely knocked out by the application, talent and enthusiam shown by all my students. I suppose I was lucky getting such a great bunch of Guys and Gals for my first class, but I can honestly say that this has been an absolute pleasure! Sharing the knowledge I have is such a thrill for me, in essence it’s something that makes all my years of scratching away drawing and painting worthwhile.

Recently, after consulting the students, I’ve started giving video feedback to students, as it’s so much more descriptive and informative that the written word, and so far it seems to be going down really well.

OK, just wanted to try this Blog thing out a bit, but will be back for more later… for the moment I have a group of learning-hungry students to sort out!