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Marjorie Firth

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Like them or hate them, they certainly can be very useful. Before I change a cluttered oil still life, I've used an app to erase part of the painting. I'll "paint in" other possibilities before I take the plunge with the real thing. Nifty or what?
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Marjorie Firth

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P.s. Excuse the toilet roll holder!

Dermot Brennan

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Hi Marjorie , that's pretty good technology is indeed our friend , what's the app called ?

Pat Harrison

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Marjorie, I am on your side on this one. Digital reference photos can be a great help during the design stages of a painting. You can try things out which otherwise might mean wasting paint and canvases. Why should we not use modern technology after all the old masters did so by employing gadgets such as the laterna magica.

Robert Kirk

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Curiosity is a good motivator Ellen and worth developing. I never got on with 'Brushes' so I haven't looked at the latest version Brushes Redux. I think you will get much further investigating the App Margerie uses 'Art Set'. This will cost you £1.48 from the Apple App Store. I think the best way when you are new to digital art work is to use a pencil setting in your app and make simple sketches and drawings. Copying is the best way to begin move on to drawing in front of the subject when you get used to drawing with the stylus. I've attached a copy of one of Charles Tunnicliffe's drawings. It shows the variety of effect you can get with just one digital setting. Tunnicliffe was regarded by the late Peter Scott as the best wildlife artist ever. The app I used for this drawing is Procreate. A day workshop on using Procreate on the iPad was held at Nature in Art recently but I missed it - on holiday. Hope there will be another!

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Robert Jones, Napa

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Rob - that's a beautiful rendition of the Tunnicliffe drawing (I remember him well: he was unequalled in his day - just superb, and used materials which were probably not so good as those now available). I'm digressing too, a bit - but if I could do that digitally, I'd be a very happy boy. http://www.isleofwightlandscapes.net http://www.wightpaint.blogspot.co.uk
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Linda Wilson

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Just for info. the Wacom tablets are a lot better than Bamboo. When I first used Bamboo, I felt that I had to learn to draw all over again and resorted to using the mouse as I felt that I had more control. People tell me that the new iPad is brilliant and a lot like drawing on paper. PS thank you Marjorie for all the useful APP information. I knew there must be APP's that are easier to use than Photoshop, even though I do understand layers.
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Robert Jones, Napa

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Well you learned something then, Syd; even if the technological stuff leaves you baffled, bothered and bewildered. (It has the same effect on me at the moment, because I've never tried to use it - imagine trying to explain oil painting to someone who's not too sure what paint is; you'd have a similar problem; sort of, either give it a try and learn about it, or just get on with your own thing and don't bother with it, maybe?) I would say we could do with a new subject heading on digital art, except that we're such an undisciplined lot here - we wander between subject headings all the time and all over the place, even putting comments on the top section which was supposed to be reserved for forum staff to tell us how to use the forum and the standards expected.... So I bet that if there were a new section, people would still wander off. It reminds me that I was present at the opening of a new NHS facility (when such things existed...) - the sister in charge said "It all looks lovely now. But tomorrow the patients will start coming in and spoiling it"; she was only half-joking, and I sometimes think that the site managers, aka Dawn, go to all this trouble to build a facility, and add new bits when asked - and then we muck it up! Or perhaps I just have too tidy a mind - you can put papers and documents into files, but you can't file people: and painty people are the worst of the lot ..... herding cats comes to mind. http://www.isleofwightlandscapes.net http://www.wightpaint.blogspot.co.uk