On Paper, Canvas, and iPad
Hi, great to have you here. This is my first post, well, the first one set to public viewing. I've been busy getting it all ready. I share with you here my my adventures in drawing and painting on an iPad; as well as my art in traditional media: watercolour, ink pen, pencil.... With a scattering of... Continue Reading →
The pic above is from my handmade book, “Mother as Writer”. This is how it looks after adding colour to it, freehand in an art app, and then placing it in a page, in the “Book Creator” app, and typing in the words, which replace the pen written words of the original page. Though I... Continue Reading →
When you begin a drawing or painting, you often have a particular focus point; a place where you want the viewer's eye to be primarily drawn. In this slide show, you can see three artworks I drew in "Art Set Pro" which I had completed, but thought I'd try out a few cropping ideas. This... Continue Reading →
I used charcoal, oil pastel and smudge tools in the Art Set Pro app, and used a brown textured paper in the app. I drew this in the "Sketch Block" app, using the pencil and watercolour. An excellent feature of this app, is you can replay your drawing process and if you wish make a recording... Continue Reading →
One of the pages scanned in from my three page introduction, to a collection of haiku I wrote and illustrated. (Sorry about the bluriness.) Haiku - a wonderful way to parcel your thoughts; a way to polish them into just the right words - like a very small picture frame - yet able to display a... Continue Reading →
I drew this using pencil and watercolour in an app called "Sketch Block". You can if you want to, easily playback a recording of your drawing process and save it as a video to the "Photos" section on the iPad. This is a simple, fun app, called "Draw - n - Show". It has a... Continue Reading →
*Drew this with my finger, in the Art Set Pro app. Available as a print, and on various items in my Red Bubble shop, here. During this past year or so, (2014/2015) of iPad painting and drawing, I haven't missed doing my art in my usual way, holding onto a: brush, pastel, pen or pencil. Which seems... Continue Reading →
This is a scanned in pencil drawing, and then I took it into the Art Set Pro app, used the smudge tools and added some sepia tones. It’s a page from my handmade book called, “Mother as Writer”. When the kids were little, I spent many a day grabbing for a pen or pencil amid:... Continue Reading →
Janette Leeds Art 
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