{"id":413,"date":"2012-04-30T21:35:30","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T20:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/?p=413"},"modified":"2012-04-30T21:35:30","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T20:35:30","slug":"ipad-paintings-and-drawings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/30\/ipad-paintings-and-drawings\/","title":{"rendered":"iPad paintings and drawings"},"content":{"rendered":"

February was an interesting month for me, I was effectively demoted at work through a re-structure, had my workload increased threefold and, due these changes, inherited an iPad.<\/p>\n

\"Fruit<\/a>

Fruit Bowl<\/p><\/div>\n

Very soon afterwards I bought a copy of Brushes and downloaded the free version of Autodesk’s Sketchbook software. Like everyone else I’ve been interested by Hockney’s iPad and iPhone drawings and wanted to see what I could do. The ‘Fruit Bowl’ is my first Brushes drawing.<\/p>\n

The drawback to Brushes, along with getting used to drawing with your finger, is that there is a complete absence of texture.<\/p>\n

\"Daffodils\"<\/a>

Daffodils<\/p><\/div>\n

Layering is useful, a background in Illustrator or Photoshop helps, but fundamentally it’s a new medium. I have kept up with Brushes, but these limitations led me to look for other software. I bought ArtRage in March and had a go with that. Daffodils is my first ArtRage painting. I think I was still thinking in computer generated mode and didn’t exploit the variety of mark and texture available.<\/p>\n

I had been playing around with Sketchbook Express for a while, but it seemed to be like a more precise version of Brushes, so I left it alone as far as image making went.<\/p>\n

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After a while I tried to look at what the programs appeared to be set up to do. Brushes is, to me, a traditional computer drawing program. Sketchbook is very much a designer’s program, ArtRage is a painting program. I went for shiny stuff!<\/p>\n

\"Kitchen\"<\/a>

Kitchen<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Kettle\"<\/a>

Kettle<\/p><\/div>\n

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The left hand image is a Brushes painting of my stainless steel kettle, the right hand image is a Sketchbook Express version of the same subject.<\/p>\n

All of these images have been made since the end of February. \u00a0There are more, you can see them here<\/a>. My favourite so far is this ArtRage painting, it combines watercolour wash with impasto in a way you’d never do on a canvas.<\/p>\n

\"Tea<\/a>

Tea Mug<\/p><\/div>\n

But really I think it’s simply because the iPad lends itself to sitting with a cup of tea, bored, when nothing is happening in T’art Club.
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