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Patricia Harper

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Hi from North Norfolk... plenty of inspiration here, anybody else local?
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Michael Edwards

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Don't use an ipad (although my wife does) but I still agree with you - it is an established art form these days and should be recognised as such - but so are cartoons which also never get a look in.

Amanda Bates

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That's right; I have a budget equivalent of a Wacom tablet and pen. On an iPad, I think you draw on the touchscreen; on my laptop, I draw on the tablet and the picture is on the screen.

Robbin Hoodie

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I think it's ok to create art electronically.My son paints using a tablet and pen. I think some people object to so called artists changing a photograph to make it look like a painting or drawing.But art is art and if an artist takes the photograph with the idea of altering it, who is to say it's not art. I seem to have gone of thred a little so yes i pad art is lovely :-)

Syd Edward

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In the. words of the song....May be passing fancies and in time may go,...it's very clear.....etc. Syd. :-) :-)

Robert Kirk

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I'm pleased that a constructive discussion is developing. It's worth searching You Tube to find David Hockney's interviews about his iPad art - he talks a lot of sense. He regards the iPad primarily as a new tool to explore ways of seeing not a way of making paintings. I think that's right because the only way you can make an exhibition of iPad files is to make digital prints from them. Judged by painterly standards iPad work has limitations. Strong fully saturated colour with little tonal contrast. No variation of line as you can get with sensitive brushwork - to name two obvious ones. Within those constraints though DH has pulled off an exhibition of attractive digital art.

Dennis Spicer

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Ipads will have limitations if you judge them by painterly standards, but when viewed as a new medium they do offer interesting possibilities. They don't interest me much as one of the reasons I paint is the feel of the brush leaving a mark of paint on the gently giving canvas, a sensual delight that a hard screen would not give. The haptic properties of paint, canvas, pencil,charcoal and other drawing media are something that I think are sometimes overlooked and could not be duplicated on an ipad.

Amanda Bates

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The tactile nature of media is an interesting aspect of this discussion. I would be interested to know how many people (in this small, biased sample) still use a fountain or cartridge pen to write with. Liquid ink flows so much more satisyingly than ballpoint gunk. And how often? I just wrote a formal letter with a Parker cartridge pen. My husband expressed (limited) surprise that I didn't type it on the computer. But I don't use such pens very often these days. Which is something that I regret.

Syd Edward

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in the far distant future we will not have to get out of bed but will look at the ceiling and a picture will appear as we imagine it. we can crop it and enhance it and run off a shed load of prints and automatically frame them all with the latest brain implant the size of a putty rubber. now that's progress , but is it art back to the drudgery of brushes and pens. Syd :-)

Sylvia Evans

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O K you wicked , piddle taking pair.  Go BACK in time , be true artists and get out your scrapers and fingers and sticks.... Though I know Michael already does this.  <div> </div>

Robbin Hoodie

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As a kid l was always in trouble for poking peas up my nose, so a putty rubber in the brain! Sign me up Syd.:-)

Robert Kirk

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Syd - if the creative opportunities provided by the iPad are beyond your comprehension just stay away instead of being silly. Going back to the points which Amanda and Michael's raised. You'll be pleased to know Amanda that I still regularly use a fountain pen. It's a Rotring Art Pen which I've used for several years. It has a fine steel nib that is good for sketching as well as writing. So Michael get your old cartridge fountain working again give it regular use for drawing and it won't clog and let you down. As for the touch and feel of traditional media that Dennis seems sorry to loose. It's true that the iPad's touch screen is not pressure sensitive so the screen does not recognise any difference between a light or a heavy touch. Modern graphics tablets used with a laptop are pressure sensitive and with good software provide a sensation similar to using a brush I hope intelligent discussion will be allowed to continue without any more silly interruptions.
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