LET THE ART APP ADAPT TO YOU

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There are endless ways to create with the iPad, endless…….. I currently own six art applications, each has their own personality and focus.  I can’t begin to tell you everything about each application; in fact, it is going to take me awhile to learn all the features, myself.  What I would really like you to [...]

Choose Your Weapon

Après van Gogh with the Flow

Yes, choose your weapon.  I don’t mean knives or guns, but tools for your iPad.  Since, I have had my iPad received in May 2010, I have purchased a few different stylus as well as made my own for drawing.  I first purchased the “Pogo” Stylus.  It is made of lightweight metal with a sponge tip.  I [...]

“What do you do?”

Sunflowers, Iris and Lemon

    What do you do?  How many times I have been asked that and just stood dumb founded. I feel caught off guard an unable to express myself. I also feel that others can’t really understand what I do, so what’s the use and I don’t believe that they would even want to take [...]

How to Record iPad Brushes Playback

iPad Brushes Playback

     I have been thoroughly enjoying drawing on the iPad.  I have many applications to do so.  My favorite one is Brushes, because it has a special feature called the Playback.  Now, what the Playback allows you to do is play the drawing back from start to finish.  I find it fascinating to see [...]

Where’s Daddy?

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A customer and friend of mine gave me a commission to do five 9″ X 10″ paintings, of her father who passed away.  I was honored to do this for her. Her father loved golf and she had found a small photo of her father putting, I believe at his favorite golf course, Cypress point. [...]

In Search of the Perfect Beginning

Corde Valle Diptych

“In search for the perfect beginning,” quoted by Robert Henri, painter and teacher. Have you ever painted a painting and no matter how much detail or paint you put on it, it was destined for the trash. In the same respect, have you ever done a painting that was flowing so freely that you completed it [...]

Words of the Spirit

Colloquy

  I was going through my journals today, which I wrote during the time I went through the St. Ignatian Spiritual Exercises in 2004.  The retreat lasted for 8 months, which I attended every Wednesday.  This was a wonderful experience for me and it healed me in many ways.  Some things in our journals speak [...]

The iPad, New Innovation, New Creativity

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I received my iPad in May for my Birthday from my husband.  I have to admit my husband always keeps me up to date technologically; my first piece from him was a printer, than a camera, followed by a computer, iTouch, various software, etc. All were great for entertainment and organization, but the one that opened [...]

Artist’s Voice

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    As Artists, we help others see. The world is waiting for our vision. It isn’t obtained by just painting pictures, as much as bringing this depth from within our self and helping others see beyond what the viewer already sees. If we allow our self to go deeper and express in such a [...]

Who Is Your Muse?

Who is your Muse?

Born from the intention of Zeus and and Imagination of Mnemosyne mothered 9 daughters which became the muses Calliope, the Goddess of eloquence, epic poetry, drama, performance, communication, transmission and storytelling; Clio the muse of history and writing; Erato, the muse of four aspects of love-Agape-Eros-Libido & Philia; Euterpe, the muse of music and lyric [...]