This is a sketch on a tablet ( Nexus 7) of Holbein's portrait of Sir Thomas More. I've convinced myself that by sketching the paintings I'm studying, I'll learn something about them. Sketching on a tablet is new to me, this is attempt no 2. I'm using a free sketching app, which is probably quite basic, but is easy enough to get the hang of.
I thought this course would be all Florentine Madonnas and such, but we are also looking at Netherlandish art. This is a sketch of poor Mary Magdalene from Rogier van der Weyden's Deposition.
She is contorted and distracted with grief - in the original anyway. I'm made her very grey. Okay, back to the books.
Thought you'd given up on us!!! Good drawings, I have an ipad now, for a couple of months, this morning I realised that my screen should not have all these air bubbles on it - after I went onto YouTube to see how to put my screen protector on! I'd put on the backing sheet and threw the actual protector sheet away!!!! He he!!! No wonder I couldn't get the bubbles out!!! I now have a beautifully protected screen with NO bubbles!!
ReplyDeleteHi Margaret!
ReplyDeleteWell done with the technology there :-)
I don't know if you are too busy throwing away bits of the ipad to try drawing on it, ;-) , my husband has one and there seem to be some great drawing packages - if it's good enough for David Hockney......