Okay… it’s a special, obscure category. Arts and Architecture. Not even in the pop-up menu in iTunes. Of 184 top free books in Art and Architecture. Number 68 and number 88 in top free books in Art and Architecture. But they are there. Way cool. And they are complete books,
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Art Threat: Artist Profile: Interview with Michael D’Antuono – Artist challenges government’s monetary redistribution, and more
Michael D’Antuono’s work is striking. His background as an illustrator sets a foundation for a remarkable oil painting style – deep shadows all set among poignant messages. After years of being instructed what to draw, the contraction of severe tendonitis led him to lay down the pencils and pick up
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Lawren Harris, Lake Superior Sketch XLV (collection: A.K. Prakash) Rather like waiting for a London bus, you wait some time for a decent exhibition of landscape art and then two come along at once, or, at least, one behind the other. Just opened at the Royal Academy in Piccadilly, London,
Continue readingcartoon life: 8 Panels again
Better pictures. Better white balance, though there’s just a bit too much colour in some of the white areas. But, I paint in the basement, and these are the first time I’ve seen them outside in proper light. If you’ve seen the landscape collages, the major forms are recycled from
Continue readingcartoon life: If you meet the buddha on the painting, kill him.
Seeing the sequence like this, the fourth seems, oh, anchored to the first. You can see the first image in the last stage still. Seen like this it seems still connected, not an image on its own, which is what I see when standing over it, working on it. As
Continue readingsamupress: The cat book ebook
An iBooks 2 version of the cat book is now up on iTunes at: http://itunes.apple.com/ca/book/cat/id499745919?mt=11. Its a free download. Signed print versions are still available.
Continue readingsamupress: The cat book ebook
An iBooks 2 version of the cat book is now up on iTunes at: http://itunes.apple.com/ca/book/cat/id499745919?mt=11. Its a free download. Signed print versions are still available.
Continue readingcartoon life: The cat book ebook
An iBooks 2 version of the cat book is now up on iTunes at: http://itunes.apple.com/ca/book/cat/id499745919?mt=11. Its a free download. Signed print versions are still available. Filed under: art, book, digital, iPad Tagged: art, Cat, cats, digital, illustration, iPad, painting
Continue readingcartoon life: My first iBooks eBook iBooks Author book
Yesterday I downloaded iBooks Author. It kills to spell that in American. While poking about and figuring out the interface and its design sensibilities, I managed to put together a short little ebook of the 20 Landscapes IV images. As carefully as I could I filled out all the fields
Continue readingcartoon life: 8 white paintings
I’ve been engaged in a protracted push, pull, following, yielding, gouging, scraping, sanding, layering since the last post and now these 8 panels are done. All are 24 by 38 inches acrylic on masonite. Filed under: cartoonist, painting Tagged: acrylic, art, landscape, masonite, painting, seascape, water, white, wind
Continue readingcartoon life: Tea mug at black walnut
Drawn first in the new version of Zen Brush, then dropped into Brushes for colour. Filed under: art, digital, drawing, iPad, painting Tagged: brushes, mug, zen brush
Continue readingcartoon life: Calico again
Downloaded AsianPainting. Works on iPad, built for iPhone. You expand it with the 2X button. The constraints of colour choice is demanding. No white. You commit with few undos. Imported into Procreate for some detail work, as AsianPaintings brushes don’t do really tiny fine work, and no backing up to
Continue readingcartoon life: Tuxedo cat on red
Filed under: art, digital, iPad, painting Tagged: art, Cat, painting
Continue readingcartoon life: 66 ThanQs
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/23273/66%20ThanQs.pdf will give you a 30 meg download of PDF book of a selected set of Qs for the Jian in London Campaign. https://picasaweb.google.com/107162781169108803437/QsForQCampaign is 74 Q images inspired by contributing to this campaign. Filed under: art, book, digital, London, painting Tagged: creative city, Jian in London
Continue readingcartoon life: A queue of Qs in London
Some folks have started a media and Twitter campaign to bring the CBC show Q, and radio host Jian Gomeshi to London to do a broadcast. I thought I would make a bunch of Qs on my iPad and post them to the #jianinldnont twitter stream. I had intended that
Continue readingcartoon life: The landscape exhibition #20
A silk road Filed under: art, design, digital, painting Tagged: art, collage, digital, iPad, landscape, painting
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Sunset Filed under: art, design, digital, painting Tagged: art, collage, digital, iPad, landscape, painting
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Yellow moon Filed under: art, design, digital, painting Tagged: art, collage, digital, iPad, landscape, painting
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Cold beach Filed under: art, design, digital, painting Tagged: art, collage, digital, iPad, landscape, painting
Continue readingcartoon life: The landscape exhibition #16
Canyon Filed under: art, design, digital, painting Tagged: art, collage, digital, iPad, landscape, painting
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