Digital Painting tutorials by artist Barb Hartsook at Digital Paint Magazine.

Introducing With Brush and Pen.  A new column in the magazine by Barb Hartsook.  Below is a bit about Barb. Also you can drop by her blog where she combines stories with words and paintings  at, Over Coffee… Let’s Talk. You can see some of her work  in the PBase Galleries. Following is her bio.

Barb Hartsook author of With Brush and Pen

Who am I and what do I do?

Hi. I’m Barbara Hartsook, and I live in Northern Ohio with my husband, close to our three adult daughters and their families.

All my life I remember loving the splashes of color in my world, and noticing how pretty everything looked when the sun was low in the sky, when shadows danced on houses and tree trunks and lawns… Yes, even as a child I noticed.

Art as a professional pursuit was not an option for me – my parents wanted me to become a classroom teacher, as they were.

So I taught. And hung out with the art teachers. And bought sketch journals, pens, and paints. And started taking classes…

Over my art-life I’ve used pastel pencils and oils and watercolors, acrylics to paint staging sets and wall murals, pen and ink, and liquid pencils (with a brush).

In April, 2006, my girls grown-up with families of their own, I took a week-long class in Durham, N.C. introducing me to Corel Painter software and a Wacom Tablet.

And I had a new love… digital painting and drawing.

My work has sold locally, as well as in galleries online, and has won awards, both locally and online.

I help moderate Karen Bonaker’s digital art forum PainterTalk, where in the past I’ve written and/or edited the forum’s interviews for the monthly featured artists.Where in fact, I was the featured artist one month…

Using Corel Painter as my brush and canvas is pure joy to me. I’m forever learning from others — teachers and fellow students and my forum-mates — all that I can absorb and practice. I love to share back what I’m learning, and so have written several tutorials, some of which are available in the forum and on my blog.

With brush and pen, I tell stories…

Stories are everywhere and can be found just by looking. Life happens when we are not conscious of it, but simply living it. As artists we write and paint the stories that we pull out of the casual snapshot – whether that snapshot is a photo or a piece of daily life.

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Thank-you Barb!  We are blessed to have you as a contributor to Digital Paint Magazine. To profiles of other digital artists you can visit the contributors page.

Ann Roberts

Digital Artist Ann Roberts

Ann generously provides her time with some writing, editing and proofreading.

Ann L. Roberts

I was born in a small country community in Yazoo County, MS a long time ago.  I finished high school and went to work as bookkeeper/secretary for a chain of 4 stores and from there went to work for a major railroad as an agent/operator and worked there until my retirement at 20 years.  Most of my working years were in New Orleans, LA.

I was always interested in art, writing and music and have had them in my life since childhood in one form or the other.

My first encounter with computers was while working for the railroad and from there to a personal computer.  When I discovered Corel Painter and AdobePhotoshop I set out to learn them and took classes all over the Internet to gain more understanding of these two magnificent programs.

My college education consisted of two years while working but I always took night courses and correspondence courses through the years.  At one point I became interested in law and could have passed the bar in Mississippi but they changed the rules on it and required a degree from a university just as I felt I was ready for the challenge.

I was a member of Mensa for a long time but stopped paying the dues when I got too involved with my husband’s music to go to the meetings.  We ran a successful music production company after our retirement from other jobs.  He was a musician all his life and I did the booking, and mastered the tapes and did the graphics for them.

My uncle left me a small town newspaper but I sold it due to time constraints.

Mexico Two Digital Painting

Merry Christmas everyone! Here is the link for the December issue of Digital Paint Magazine.

Digital Painting with Adobe Photoshop, New Secrets

Check out this very cool vid from the Adobe labs on Facebook. Over the years there have been various changes to photoshop that has allowed digital painting to become easier. While the information they share in this video is experimental it shows great promise.

Here is an embed from youtube.

here is a link to the photoshop FaceBook page.

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=539663368359