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Ken Gillam

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I have a smartphone, I even turn it on from time to time, and the wife has a Kindle, not used either for artistic endeavours. I've never found drawing on the PC particularly easy of rewarding to be honest, perhaps I've never spent enough time at it. One thing I am certain of though I can get a result with a conventional tool much faster than with an electronic one.

Dennis Spicer

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Does your wife say the same?

Amanda Bates

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The one thing that I find really annoying about digital art programs is that there seems to be some need to mimic traditional media. Why? (Many of them don't look very convincing, anyhow.) If digital art is going to get taken seriously, it needs too stop pretending to be something it isn't.

Syd Edward

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the emperor has no clothes .....comes to mind. wise summary Amanda. cheers ...Syd :->

Dennis Spicer

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Amanda is right, digital art has to find its own language and not borrow the language of existing art forms, and can we have a ban on the emperor phrase, particularly when discussing modern art? It is a cliche.

Amanda Bates

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I used to think the way forward for digital art was vector (where you have mathematically defined shapes with editable nodes; infinitely scalable) rather than raster (which is pixel-based), but the increase in memory in modern computers means that your image files can be ginormous and so nobody really cares about a few pixels here and there.

Syd Edward

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01886 880 709cedced Hi Pat. thanks for putting these paintings available....they have a wow factor which is incredible for something which is digitally produced. they have varied tones and are watercolour or acrylic like in character as demonstrated in that lovely sunset.some of the eggheads on this forum should get onto Excel and work out how the old Jap used it to produce such exciting work and 73 years old at that.Great! .......Syd. .. :->

Syd Edward

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don't ask me how all these figure appeared inthe fort sentence an d the gap further down..there are Gremlins in my Ipad ...even in the line above.i,will stop now as they are. rampant.......Syd :-(

Amanda Bates

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PS japanese bloke + Excel http://kotaku.com/old-japanese-man-creates-amazing-art-using-excel-wait-499616608

Angela Kingham

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Art as we know it could disappear. It could end up as iPAD art to say Facebook... Downloaded to iPAD...shared to friends iPADS...viral art? The galleries go bust...the museums shut...artists' go broke and shut their studios...artists' suppliers go bust...and so on. Art will becomes just another free commodity. And just perhaps iPAD artists' will continue that grande tradition of just making art for the sake of art?

Robert Kirk

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Today's prophecy is a reading taken from the Gospel according to Meltemi. Thanks be to Painters Online

Robbin Hoodie

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Hi Mel...Everything I put down seems to disappear, I,m broke and all my art is a free commodity...I,m glad its the iPAD I thought it was old age.. :-)
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