spring progresses...

More iPad Brushes app; I am learning more about colour and different brushes, but I am still getting the layers mixed up at times though.

This is my view from the bedroom window - more daffodils and the weeping willow are out now.

Still playing at iPad 2 trees with the Brushes App and still don't have as much control as I would like...


The top one is the tree I see from my window, I have been trying to add more colour and use different brush widths.


The second one is from a photo in Dulwich park.


I am trying to decide how to simplify what I see while showing enough of the subject...

More iPad drawing

My daughter says that there must be a rush on people buying iPads and the Brushes app after seeing the Hockney exhibition. They will then go off creating loads of dodgy landscapes on it. She is quite right! Thanks dd!! Hence my latest go at the tree from my bedroom window... and I am even copying Hockney by drawing the same tree over and over again  (but without his technique of course!!)

I have now found out that I can use many layers to do a slice at a time and go backwards and forwards to work on them.

I did the background last of all and tinted it to get rid of the stark white background.

The foreground tree was done first with a layer underneath to fill in all the tree with a creamy colour - as otherwise the background layers of the pond, trees, ice and snow showed through the trunk where there were no marks made...

I am also playing with the built in brushes now...

I have a Bamboo stylus to use as I found using my fingers very hard.

I have always been reluctant to take a sketchpad out with me as I was afraid of making a complete mess of it - but I am now hoping to use the iPad instead of a laptop when we are away for emails etc etc but also as a discreet sketchbook...

Knitting cacti and trying to draw with the iPad

My blog has been rather quiet - but I have been knitting ribbed tubes which are drawn up at the end to make a curved top; then they are stitched together and filled with stuffing; then I crocheted flowers - just a chain and a row of double crochet.

I have also been in London to see the Hockney exhibition, it was fantastic and genuinely uplifting...

It is not often you see something genuinely celebratory.

I am now playing with the Brushes app on my iPad  - 2 views from my window and a self portrait from a photograph - but I have a long way to go....