An exercise in looking and drawing, using digital technology inspired by David Hockney
You might just need some adult support
You will need:
iPad, tablet, camera or camera phone
Artist David Hockney prefers to draw on his iPad using his fingers rather than a stylus, using different fingers to create varying effects. He also often prefers to draw with his left hand, even though he is right handed as he likes the freedom and quality of the marks created. He even feels he would be unable to achieve and replicate these if he used his stronger arm. For inspiration take a look at his work here.
Experiment, explore and investigate colours and techniques used by David Hockney to create your own iPad painting.
Activity option one: Photograph it!
Using your iPad or camera take some photographs of your garden or plants. Use these images as templates, which you can then apply layers of paint and colour onto to create your artwork. You can also change the photos hue, saturation, brightness and contrast or inverse the image.
Activity option two: Sketch it!
First explore the brushapp / drawing app on your iPad, get used to how these tools work, explore the colour palette, opacity and layers. Take time to discover what they all do. When you are ready, start small, sketch the outline of your flowers or plants using a pencil like brush tool. To build up your painting, start to add colour. Look really hard and pick the colours that feel right to you as you create your observational drawing.
Tips:
You can build up textures by adding different tones and shades
You could even print your photographs in black and white and change the image directly by apply colour, tone and detail by adding paint, pens, crayons, pastels etc on top of your original print out.
There are many sketching apps out there, but I have found Tayasui Sketches on the iPad to be quite good.
Please share your creations and give me a mention! @artlab.workshops
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