October 2009

Video Demo - Digital Drawing with Corel Painter 11

Drawing Mediums and Paper Textures Meet Artist Jackie Jacobson Drawing with artist Jackie Jacobson Today’s video lesson is about the soft mediums that I use when I draw. Using Corel Painter 11, Jackie demonstrates the process of using different drawing mediums in Corel Painter 11. Drawing with charcoal, pastel and paper texture, and what can [...]

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Shopping for small art prints?

NEW … from the Jacobson small print gallery… Fine art giclee prints Printed on the highest quality art paper Mounted – Unmatted Print Size  11″ x 14″ Fits Standard Size  11″ x 14″  Frame  No custom framing needed  Purchase prints by phone at 760.831.1190 or email jackiejart@aol.com And best of all…at really affordable prices $15.00 .. 1 print $12.50 each .. 2 or more prints [...]

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Drawing From the Model -Quick Sketches

Weekly Life Figure Drawing Series Meet Model S Quick Sketching – Short Poses I have chosen Pose #6 for todays drawings. They are all short poses, from 1 to 10 minutes. Quick sketching is the warm up process. Usually done on newsprint paper, the model does a series of one minute poses for a 20 [...]

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Video Demo- Digital Oil Painting

Oil Painting using Corel Painter 11 Today’s video demonstrates the brushes, paint and surface used in digitally painting with oils paints in Corel Painter 11. The brushes shown in the video were used by artist Jackie Jacobson in the above Painting of Sophia. After you watch the video, come back to the Sophia painting above, and [...]

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Blogs, Posts, and RSS Feeds

    Are you confused by all this stuff?   What is a Blog? A blog is basically a journal that is available on the web. The activity of updating a blog is “blogging” and someone who keeps a blog is a “blogger.” What is a Post? A post is a journal entry to the [...]

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Drawing from the Model - Self Portrait

Weekly Live Model Series The model didn’t show today This is a frequent occurrence at figure drawing sessions. You’re all setup and ready to draw. The model is a no show. What to do. Grab a hand, wall, or any other mirror. Go for it. You always have a model available. Today I’ll show you [...]

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Digital Painting Demo - Get Started with Corel Painter 11

Meet the Artist …Jackie Jacobson Jackie’s painting The painting is done directly on the 21″ Wacom® Cintique monitor. Drawing and painting is done on the monitor using a digital pen. The digital studio is equipped with several digital pens, with nibs for different drawing and painting purposes. But it is the Corel® Painter 11 program that [...]

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New Paintings - The Plumeria Suite

The Plumeria Suite Just added  Plumeria paintings are available in limited edition giclee prints on canvas. As I said in a recent post, Plumeria is the flower that is most requested in my street fair booth. In case you missed it, read my story about Plumerias here. They are fun things you may not know [...]

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Drawing from the Model...The Windows Series

  Drawings from the Model The series titled “Windows” are views through a window. The models are wearing these elaborate hats in all 12 pieces of the series. My objective was to capture the emotion that I could see in their eyes, as I examined both external beauty and internal feelings.   Working with live  models, each drawing [...]

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Tour of the New Wet Painting Studio

  Yellow Rose (Detail) ©2009 Jackie Jacobson. Do you paint in a small space? I believed I needed a large space in order to paint wet. Space was limited, so I setup in the garage. There was plenty of room when the car was removed. The last time it was used was 4 years ago. [...]

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