One of my favorite still life artists, Jos van Riswick, heard tell that painting on the iPad was the latest/ greatest and decided to give it a go. He’s been kind enough to post the results online. Brilliant! Though he does claim to prefer canvas, you can’t argue that the results aren’t… well… interesting!
…and a billion Apple fans around the world develop synchronized iTwitches, with no notion as to why…
So last night was the one year birthday of the little figure drawing club I go to on Monday nights, and to celebrate we made some of these new-fangled artist trading card thingies and we traded them.
I don’t actually know if artist trading card thingies ARE new-fangled. They might be old-fangled, and I’m just recently fangling them when everyone else on the planet has fangled artist trading cards for ages.
I am commonly behind on the fangle trends.
So anyway, these are the cards I made!
And here are a few close-ups.
Have you ever noticed that a change of medium can totally change your perspective on things? For instance, I discovered that sketching on a 2 1/2″ x 3 1/2″ card is a great way to fill up a completely composed space in a half hour or so.
Now that my cards are made, I find myself missing the creation of them. Maybe I need to pull out the sketchbook and return to this smaller size. Or maybe I need to make another dozen or so cards.
At any rate, it was a mightily satisfying experience. No wonder some artist like to work small.
{secret hover-text messages edited by Moose. All secret hover-text is secret. Shh. Loose lips sink ships. Maurice El Torres likes Cathi Finnigan, pass it on.}
Now that I got the feel for foreshortened stuff, I luuurrrve drawing things at extreme angles.
Behold! Foreshortened sketchy hands! Yay.
Ok, that is all.