Models, Springs & Top Brass
The weather has been so good lately and after what seems like 6 months (and may well be!) of dark cold skies we suddenly have warmth, colour and new life. This has me thinking of organising a new show and this time the subject will be flowers and landscapes.
As for the brass neck series we, the models and I, have finally arranged to meet this Wednesday. We postponed last week because of the holiday.
Over the weekend I did a few drawings with 'Brushes', a new IPhone app. I've been drawing on phones (A Sony P910I) for about 5 or 6 years. I made my first Iphone sketch about 5 months back. But this new app is better than the one I used before. The sketch of Obama is a painting I made on my IPhone. This is not a manipulated photo, it was started like any sketch only not on paper and I used my fingertips. Although I nearly gave up on this picture I found that with patience I could render in a way that pleased me. I could have continued but stopped at this stage. The trouble is I had already built up a good likeness of the President and lost it so I did not want to go through that again. After all, this is essentially me goofing around with a doodle on my phone and it had already taken up too much time. I may try and take a version of this image closer to likeness later. I feel it is a little on the angelic side, but the risk is great and I could have easily made him too harsh... the risk of undermining good work with a wrongly placed fingertip or colour could have pushed me back a long way and I was tired and knew I would dump it if I blew it. So I stopped here having proved a point to myself.
Prints may be available for this kind of work soon, the flowers and blossoms for instance. Leave a comment or email me if you would like to know more about the prints.
