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sketching with an ipad
Drawing with an ipaddetail showing the marksMy Christmas present to me, from me, for having had a horrible year was an ipad. Friends have given me masses of great advice on which apps to download for...
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more christmassy doodling on the ipad
detail of drawing belowMore drawings on the ipad, using Omnisketch. Isn't the blue/purple luscious against the firy reds and oranges?entire drawing using omnisketchI've shown details as the fine...
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more ipad sketching
more sketching with omnisketch and close up detailI think some of the earlier doodles would have worked well as stained glass windows with the light glowing throught them - this one I see as an...
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Using the iPastels app in ipad, my review
sunset study with the Pastels app on ipodThe ipastels app on the ipad is good to use, a definite keeper. If you like using pastels this is defintitely worth trying out. I've downloaded several ........
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Merry Christmas everyone
Wishing all my readers and friends a very Happy Christmas. Someone sent me this great poem one year - 2 cats is even worse, especially when you've left it to Christmas Eve to start wrapping...
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drawing and painting programmes for the ipad: OmniSketch, and a little...
Taken with the thermal image option on the ipad A preliminary look at the apps for art and photography on the ipad thatI've experimented with so far, some were deleted as rubbish but I didn't keep...
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Drawing with the Pen and Ink app on the ipad - drawing of a tabby cat from life
Quick sketch from life using the Pen and Ink app on the ipad, drawn with my fingersThe free Pen and Ink app really does have the scratchy feel of pen and ink. It comes with very limited tools and...
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Pen and Ink app plus Spray Can app, sketching on the ipad
Quick sketch from life, the window sill and silhouetted resident tigerAnd yes the plant is tipped over thanks to madame there, my perspective wasn't out! Done using the Pen and Ink app, then opening...
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The Sketch Club app for ipad: sketches of tulips in lettering, undergrowth...
Tangled undergrowth, a sketch done with the Sketch Club app on an ipadThis App was highly recommended to me and I'm so glad. It has all sorts of features that I want - the ability to use layers, to...
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Drawing with digital calligraphy on the ipad with the Sketch Club App
Cat in digital calligraphy, Sketch Pad app on ipadThe ability to draw in text (see last post) in Sketch Pad is fun.These were done importing the previous digital sketches I'd done from life in another...
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Portrait done in Sketch Club on the ipad
More playing with Sketch Club on the ipad. A portrait of my grandson.I need a finer stylus for finer detail, like features. There is a good comparison, in 2 parts, on youtube. I want that pen...
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Using Diptic and Photoshop Express photo editing apps on the ipad
Using Diptic and Adobe Photoshop Express AppsDiptic and Adobe Photoshop Express Apps for the iPad reviewI've used these 2 apps with photos here, but of course they will work equally well with art work,...
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Snow and late afternoon light
Travelling home in the late afternoon the light was beautiful. The pattern of ridges and tyre marks in a ploughed field made sweeping patterns, defining the form of the land. The low sun reflected...
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Snow and late afternoon light. iPad painting
Painting from memory; a fabulous late afternoon with fresh snowfall, low sun throwing apricot through and bouncing off the dark clouds and the snow.I stopped on the way home to look at the gorgeous...
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Snow, early morning light, ipad painting
Snowy early morning, slightly misty, ipad paintingAnother sketch done on the ipad of the morning filelds, a slight mist in the air and so quiet. Again I played with the text tool as I felt it worked...
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Tinted Charcoal pencils and ipastel
Hedge silhoutted against the snow, late afternoon. Charcoal and pastelThis one started with a sketch in Derwent's tinted charcoal pencils (lovely subtle colours). See the original sketch below.On the...
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More paintings of snow: Watercolour and mixed media
Winter snow and frozen puddles, watercolour and mixed mediaI just treated myself to a wickedly expensive brush and I'm busy test driving it. It holds so much water! that's something to adapt to....
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Painting snow in late afternoon light, watercolour and tinted charcoal
Late afternoon light on snowy fields, a flock of birds suddenly took to the sky, watercolour and mixed media in Stillman and Birn Beta Hardback sketchbookAnother in the series trying to capture the...
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Hedges silhouetted agains the snow, winter light: watercolour and Derwent...
Detail I have always liked the calligraphic tangle of the hedges when they are sihouetted against the sky. Recent snowfall meant even more opportunities with amazing light and the landscape...
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a flock of birds rises over winter fields, first snow: watercolour and mixed...
a flock of birds rise: watercolour and mixed media, detailThis is another look at the wonderful late afternoon light over the first snowfall of the year. Getting the intense glow of the sun wasn't...
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