I finally got an iPad. It was my Christmas present even
though I bought it on Black Friday; I really got an amazing deal! Now I can
answer those questions people have had about reading my eBook on it. Just send
it via email or Dropbox or put it in the iCloud. Read it in iBooks. Simple as
that! You can do something similar with
an Android tablet and read it with Adobe Reader. Now I can take my eBook with
me wherever I am creating art. I bought a gooseneck holder on eBay for mine, (not
the fancy one shown in the picture). I can attach it to my art table or desk
and have hands free viewing. Just reach up and swipe the screen with my stylus
to turn the page!
Unfortunately, the iPad has totally consumed me. I need to
put it down and start on my next eBook! The apps are so inexpensive that I feel
like a kid in a candy store. I want them all but I know my appetite is bigger
than my little iPad can handle. The apps I believe are stored in the cloud, (
not sure about this) but some of them take a lot of memory to use. In addition,
I need to learn to use the ones I have. The one that is the biggest challenge
is iColorama. It is a very complex app. The creator is a genius, and she is
more about tweaking and adding to it, so there is not a user’s guide. If she
did, it would be outdated by the time she published it. I had to search the web
and Facebook to even to begin using it.
The image I posted here was the first one I painted with it.
I have no idea what I did and I have not been able to do it again. I started
with a photo donated by Thomas Churchwell on Facebook. I cropped the
photo and changed the angle of it a tad and the saturation. That is about all I
can remember doing except that I painted it using the Plane setting. To the best of my knowledge, which is next to
non, it is about painting through an opaque mask that the plane or bound settings
puts over the photo. You paint by removing it with brushes, which creates the different
strokes and textures. I apologize that this sounds simplistic and absurd, but possibly
someone will ask me these questions and this is the best I can do. I added some
paint touches using another favorite app, Procreate. I did not know at the time
I could have done that in iColorama. I am a fan of rough brush strokes so I was
happy with this painting. I am sure someday I will know enough about the app
that what I said in this post will possibly be wrong and totally embarrassing. Just
saying.
