We are happy to announce the Grand Opening of the Digital Paint Shop! There are all kinds of “freebies” there for you to grab and there are loads of tutorials there also. Take a look around, visit the vendors and help us shake it out for the next 30 days while we add new products and more exciting materials for Digital Painting. The DIGITAL PAINT SHOPis a public site and the Digital Painting Forum is a subscription only forum. If you are a forum member, there are discount coupons and codes and links in the forum for deals on many of the products there. The FREEBIES are for everyone!
I was first introduced to this movie by Jeremy Sutton at a workshop. I can’t thank him enough for the introduction and I have been fascinated by it ever since. Watching the movie is like being inside one of the greatest artists of all times brain and the thought process is not so far from my own or others I have known.
Imagine Publishing who publishes the only official Corel Painter Magazine has a wonderful article published in the latest issue about the Digital Painting Forum. On top of that, they published a number of forum members paintings including Chris Prices, mine, Carrie Woeck, Alan Davis, Michael David, and more. When I actually see the magazine I will update this post to include everyone.
Also in this issue, Chris Price and myself answer some of the Q & A questions on Painter. It’s amazing how this magazine has become driven by our forum members and also members of Karen Bonakers forum. They have a wealth of talent to draw from!
The Digital Painting Forum has a subscription fee that October 1st will be $49/year or $75/2 years. There is a Sneak Peak movie at the home page to see what is inside. (That movie needs updating as there is so much new now!) It’s on the list to do!
As if that isn’t enough to encourage you to join the forum, this month we are having an art challenge that the prize is a full version of Corel Painter X and runner up prizes are Amazon Gift Certificates. Only forum members are eligible to enter and win.
Here is the Digital Painting Forum article they published as scan from a member that gets the magazine earlier than I do.
Whenever I find great stes whether through other blogs or on my own Digital Painting Google journeys around the net, I add them to my blogroll. Don’t miss some of the great sitesI have here on my blogroll. Visit them all and see which ones you like. Comment about them here.
While I was teaching at NSI, the Niagara School of Imaging, we did a sequence on abstracts again. While these are only the digital files that still need to be enhanced after printing on canvas, I was quite pleased with how they turned out.
These would both be treated somewhat as underpaintings as other paint, gold leaf, metallics, etc would be added on top of the canvas to finish it off to really have the glowing parts three dimensional.
The September Newsletter is HERE and featured right on the front page is SUSI LAWSON!! You all can read the wonderful interview with her and enjoy her painting on the forum front page. But inside the newsletter, most of the links are only active for subscribed forum members. It gives you a really good idea of what goes on inside also. Don’t forget the front page also has a Sneak Peek video if you want to see more! Read about Susi NOW.
Okay, I have given in. Members of the Digital Painting Forum are joining Facebook and adding friends and joining groups there. I joined there a few months ago to look around after Ryan Sholin told me about it and that it was a great way to find more people with the same interests. But it looked to me like it was more for kids in college trying to still find each other. Was I WRONG! There is a huge digital art and international art community there on Facebook and there are many artists there I have never seen on the internet other than there. So I updated my profile there, found a few friends, hooked up to groups I am interested in and if you are on Facebook, add me as a friend and we will write on each others walls!
Although I have been on the internet since the days of DOS and Prodigy which dates me far more than I like to admit, the technology in the blogging and linking is moving at lightening speed. There is something called MULTIPLY that takes you to Six Degrees of Separation in a few short steps. I could spend days and days on these sites and probably even find childhood friends if I tried to. I need to live a long time to be able to have enough time to create my art, learn more internet, find friends, see family, run the forum, teach what I do, write my books, see my clients and oh yes, feed the cats! I need a clone of me! One that does nothing but learn and then pours it into my head when I’m sleeping and I would wake up know everything instantly.
Share your thoughts about these new communities and their strengths and weaknesses. Have you had positive experiences with them or are they just new “newsgroups” using new technology. What do you think of Facebook and Multiply?
My good friend Chris Price is having a wonderful sale at Studio Chris. Grab one of his beautiful prints now. Also, if you are into collecting textures, for a little while longer he has a set of FREE TEXTURES that are handmade on his site. Really, they are FREE, all you do is register on the site and download them! While you are there, check out my favorite texture set also, INK FLOW. All his textures are handmade by him, the artist, so they don’t have that everyday look to them. They are true art.
Enjoy the specials and let me know which print you get. His flowers, fish and Siberian Husky are favorites!
Here is DRAYNO that I painted last year. He is our rescued kitty from, guess where? The storm drain outside our home. He rules the house and is the boss of all of us. This finished painting has more of the feel and humor and texture I am trying to bring to the WIP Snowy painting. I’ll get there as long as I remember the journey is the best part.
