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| playing with colour iPhone drawing © Teresa Newham |
I suppose it was inevitable. The moment I put down the David Hockney art books my husband gave me for Christmas, with their pages and pages of drawings made on an iPhone and iPad, I reached for my own devices and started playing.
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| cartoon faces iPhone drawings © Teresa Newham |
Hockney's images are, of course, little masterpieces, often crudely drawn but always with a real sense of the subject. My efforts are basically doodles made while working out how to use the Brushes app.
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| playing with layers iPad drawings © Teresa Newham |
I started with patterns and imaginary faces - cartoon-like line drawings or more considered layered images, as I tried to build volume and shading. The thought of being able to dash off a quick sketch on my iPhone, any time, any place, anywhere, was exciting.
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| loving Vincent (night) iPad drawing © Teresa Newham |
Another Christmas present - a DVD of the amazing animated painted film Loving Vincent - had me doodling away in a rough approximation of the style of Vincent van Gogh. I was surprised at how effective the daytime picture turned out to be, despite the speed with which I laid it down.
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| loving Vincent (day) iPad drawing © Teresa Newham |
More recently I've been following in Hockney's footsteps again, by dashing off quick interpretations of items round the house. At some point I will get back to "proper" sketching, but for now the digital version has me hooked!
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| loving Hockney iPad drawings © Teresa Newham |
