Spiral (iPad painting)

Painted early March 2015, with Art Rage app.

Blue/White (iPad painting)

Painted on iPad with Art Rage app, March 6, 2015.

Dreaming in Purple and Pink (iPad Painting)

Painted with Art Rage app.

Seated Woman (iPad painting)

Painted from memory, last month, with Art Rage app.

One of my airplane paintings, that is, artwork done in airport lounges or in flight, as this one was.

Head in Orange and Blue (iPad Painting)

Drawn from life, last month.

Art Rage app on iPad.

Nature update:
The does align.

Woman in Pink Chair (iPad painting)

Drawn from life, Thursday morning.

Re-drawn with Art Rage app.

Art Rage app.

Man on Plane (iPad painting)

From Paris to Minneapolis.

Drawn from life, in August.

One of the flight attendants saw what I was up to--and asked for the name of the app, for his wife.  ArtRage probably is experiencing an uptick in sales.

Head in Purple and Orange (iPad drawing)

Drawn from imagination, mid-August.

Man in Profile (iPad Painting)

Drawn Tuesday morning, from life.

Art Rage app.

Breakfast at the Hotel Hammer 3, 2, 1 (iPad sketches)

This month, I spent several days in Mainz, Germany, where my husband was teaching a short course at the university.

After the first couple of mornings, I used the morning breakfast time as my "sketching from life" opportunity.

Each morning I set myself up in a corner, so no one could see what I was doing on the iPad.

These sketches are in reverse order: the first at the bottom, the last at the top.

By the way, should you be going to Mainz, the Hammer is a good place to stay:  nice rooms, breakfast and staff, right across from the train station and easy walking to the old town.

Face in Pink and Orange (iPad Painting)

Drawn last week, from life.

AUSTIN UPDATE:

An unconventional woman.

Woman in Pink and Orange (iPad Painting)

Drawn from life on iPad Thursday morning.

At the Art Gallery (iPad Sketch)

Drawn from life, last night.  GrayDUCK Gallery.

It was hot (around 100 degrees F outside) and crowded, last night at the art gallery. 

Sketched quickly, while waiting for the gallery owner to speak.

NATURE UPDATE: 

My first fawn photo of the season. 

At the Bakery (iPad Sketch)

Drawn from life, at the outdoor seating at Cocola in San Jose, California.
 
Cocola is a great place to take your laptop and work, or take your sweetie and talk, or take your iPad and draw.

This is the bakery at which afternoon tea was taken, in my earlier iPad sketch of a man and woman.

And Santana Row is nice:  somewhat like the Grove in L.A., but with  (1) automobile traffic and (2) much greater variety of types of store.

And no canned music or trolley, so less of the Disneyland feel.

Like the Domain in Austin.

Vase with Twelve Sunflowers (iPad Painting)

Drawn from imagination, starting with gray background titled "Vase with Twelve Sunflowers."

Probably started and abandoned by one of my relatives, while I was visiting Portland, Oregon last week.

My brother and sister-in-law grow a fabulous garden, and vases full of flowers fill their rooms.

So I took the title and my memory of the flowers as inspirations and started doodling.  This is the result.

SUBURBIA UPDATE:

An entry in the continuing effort to lower the number of mosquitoes without poisoning them (and us).

At the Gym (iPad Painting Number 9)

Drawn Tuesday night, at the gym.

Still using Art Rage app, still using one layer. 

Fairly heavy use of three of the virtual palette knives, in this painting. 

Also several brushes, paint right out of the tube, pastel stick, some watercolor and markers and a couple of erasers.

And I started with an underpainting, which in this case means I had already painted an abstract painting on the screen before I painted into it and over it with the figures.

At the Gym 2 (8th iPad Sketch)

Drawn this afternoon, from life.

In the seconds it took me to suggest the position she was in, the woman finished recording her reps on this leg-work machine on her iPhone and moved away.

I was so absorbed in capturing the gesture, I didn't notice she was seated in a very similar position on a different machine right next to this one.

Dreaming in Blue and Purple (iPad drawing 5)

Drawn from life, yesterday.

At the gym.

At the Cafe 3. (Third iPad Drawing)

Drawn from life, this morning, with the Art Rage app.

I-pad Sketch 1 (Man Reading)

Drawn this morning, from life, at the cafe.

First i-pad drawing. 

Art Rage app.

NATURE WATCH:

Good day for a swim.