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Another summer, more bug spray. My husband has armed himself, and all the bugs who wander onto our front porch get zapped--he thinks there are no good bugs. I worry about the birds. I'm a bug-rescuer; if I find one inside, I carefully take it outside to freedom. Now I wonder if I'm sending them to the great beyond--I'll have to take them out the back door.
This is not a portrait of my husband; I don't know who it might be--looks a bit like a man I worked with many years ago. I wanted to check out skin tones and figure painting on my iPad. Now I need to learn how to move the painting from the iPad to my computer without including the little circle that's part of the screenshot from Sketchbook (and you probably thought it was a bugbite).
**Afterthought. If I downsize the drawing on the iPad with my fingers, I can eliminate the little circle. Aha!
**Afterthought. If I downsize the drawing on the iPad with my fingers, I can eliminate the little circle. Aha!
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It's almost scary how good both you and Linda Roth are at this iPad drawing stuff! I'm so impressed!!!
ReplyDeleteYou are always so good with faces.
Last year I sprayed my yard multiple times trying to kill fleas. It didn't eliminate the fleas but it killed everything else. That was scary but a different kind of scary.
Now, I've got the kids on a new combo heart worm and flea med and the fleas are gone. So no spraying this year. We'll have tons of bugs.
Both you and Jeff are bug savers. He won't kill anything.
Love your art!!! You amaze me!!!
Hi Pam. I will kill a fly although I always think of the haiku:
Delete"Don't kill that fly!
Look--it's wringing it's hands,
Wringing its feet."
I can't explain my infatuation with the iPad; maybe it's because, unlike my sketchbooks, I can always find it. I'm not sure I consider this art--the undo button eliminates a lot of suffering.
Aha! It's fun to figure things out ourselves!
ReplyDeleteAha, Carole--there's probably a "send" button in the app; I'll accidentally find it one day. My other app, sketchpad, has one but that's a much simpler toy--just lines and colors.
DeleteHallie, I knew I was behind, but when I stopped by I realized that I have been VERY remiss. It's great to see you having so much fun with your iPad. It's exciting to see how you've connected with it so quickly and have immersed yourself in learning/playing/creating. Rock on!
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Hi Don. I know you've been busy with all kinds of projects. For me, rocking on is a now-or-never thing. I'm not sure I can take the iPad with me.
DeleteHallie, your sense of humor is always so funny and it always tickles me. Part of me agrees with your husband: no good bugs. But now you have me worrying about the birds! This is a fabulous idea for a painting.
ReplyDeleteHi CrimsonLeaves. Things that bother me often show up in my work. When I painted the head I had no idea where this was going--I like surprises.
DeleteBecause of your iPad fascination, I decided to download a drawing app on mine. I am going to practice drawing and simplifying compositions with color. It's easy to send the finished work as an email and you can change it from jpg to pdf or to any other type of document if you need to.
ReplyDeleteHi Robin--I know you'll enjoy drawing on your iPad. Last night I found the options for emailing "layered, flattened, or PDF" from this app. Today I'm only seeing the options for "print or save to photos."
Deleteyou can save the file, then once it's saved email it to yourself. a pdf file can be exported and saved as a jpg too you know...
DeleteI'm sure you're right, Robin. I will probably need a PDF reader for the main computer--it came with only a TRIAL reader and that ticked me off.
DeleteHey Hallie, can you somehow print these out and put them on a wall...or does that defeat the purpose of electronic art?
ReplyDeleteI can't help it, I just think about walking into a room and seeing this on the wall and wondering...what does this mean? (lol!) I enjoyed your narrative, so I do know what it means. Still, one of my greatest joys in life has been going into galleries, seeing something like this and thinking...."wonder what this means" lol
LOVE it. Save the bugs!
Hi Celeste. These can be printed--and, I think, at any size (they're large files with umpteen pixels). I can get an app that will enable me to print from the iPad to my Canon printer, or find someone who has a giclee printer. I'm going to try printing the bottle one this week, as soon as I consider it completely finished (hate to waste my ink).
ReplyDeleteYes, save the bugs. The slugs are eating my hostas and I can never decide which is more important--the hosta plant or the slug. I let them fight it out.
I thought this was maybe your husband the bug-killer getting maced.
ReplyDeleteI liked the little circle; I was sure it was a skeeter bite before the welt raised up.
You're good, SamArtDog. Originally it was my husband but today's his birthday, so I added hair, changed the nose, and added about 40 pounds--now it's someone I don't know. It might be my arm, though.
DeleteThis Ipad certainly triggers your fantasy, this is fun ! But don't forget about your oils and watercolors :-)
ReplyDeleteHi Jane. I haven't forgotten the oils and watercolors--and acrylics and pastels and graphite and linoleum blocks. Decisions, decisions. I wish I could pick just one.
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