Okay, here’s one I use in my workshops for fun. Music does not start right away, so just wait. This is Joshua Tree National Park in California. Enjoy!!

You guys must think I am nuts because I went to England for almost two weeks and have posted NOTHING about it or any paintings from the trip. First, let me tell you, my hosts, Phil and Juliet from the SWPP are FABULOUS. Their family is wonderful and I can’t thank Colin and Terrie enough for dragging me from city to city. The kids, Sally, Lucy and Hannah were a delight and a lot of fun. The workshops went great and here are a few images from them. We forgot to take pictures at every stop as it got a little crazy in the heat wave we hit there. Lack of air conditioning clearly makes my brain soggier than usual!

And Another Workshop:

Here’s one of my favorite new paintings in England: Lucys English Garden

For Lucys English Garden I used some new Corel Painter IX.5 brushes from David Gell.
These are the textured acrylic brushes. Very cool to work with. David has other brushes, tips, articles and cool stuff on his Brush Port site.

I’m going to be teaching in Canada at the Niagara School next month. This is a great article (even if I say so!) that I wrote for them. This page won’t be available forever, so check it out now.

Niagara School of Imaging Marilyn Sholin Pro Tips: Naming Your Paintings

While visiting our friends, Paula and Don in Novato, we spent a day in San Francisco with our good friend and artist and inspiration, Jeremy Sutton.
We spent time in his beautiful gallery and studio and had a wonderful outdoor delightful Thai lunch right near his studio.

Jeremy took us to a wonderful mansion in San Francisco to see a commissioned portrait he did. It was quite an exciting afternoon. Jeremy introduced us to Bob Pritikin and we were thrilled to see the incredible collage painting Jeremy did for him. A memorable day! Thanks Jeremy.

The only way we could this great workshop was with the help from the fabulously talented artist, Paul Tumason, who loaned us his studio.

A million thanks to Paul and his help with putting this together.

I have shared so much with so many using Corel Painter. Here are a few paintings from some of my workshop friends.
From Larry Allan in San Jose here is a beauty of a painting from a reference image from Venice.

Also from the San Jose Workshop here is a beautiful abstract peacock by Eric Melander.

And just in case you think we don’t have fun at the workshops, here’s the whole gang together. Notice our WACOM stylus are being put to good use as always!

Those of us that use COREL PAINTER love, LOVE Dens Funky Chunky brushes. These were designed by Denise Laurent, a fabulous artist from the UK.
When I was in London in June, I had dinner with Den and her husband. Before we quit for the night, and I do mean QUIT, as we were eating and drinking a loooong time, I grabbed one shot of the two of them together. I thought it would be fun to introduce you to them as a painting. Here they are painted in Den’s own brushes!!

Den brushes are available in many places all over the net for free.

They are also on the DIGITAL PAINTING FORUM for free, but you must register and use your real name to register.
The instructions for loading them are also on the forum in the same thread. Once you are registered you can find Dens Brushes on the forum HERE.