I did this watercolour and wrote the words quite a few years back. I scanned it in using the "Scanner Pro" app on my iPad, and then took it into the "Phonto" app to type in my haiku. I call this picture and haiku; an illustrated haiku, rather than a haiga. In a haiga the... Continue Reading →
Pears Painted on My iPad – Haiku, Haiga, Word Play…
*Painted with my finger, using media in the Art Set Pro app. In a previous post I mention, the wonderful colours and shapes, fruit and vegetables offer, as subject matter for a painting or drawing. One of the most popular, I think, is the humble pear. Such a simple form, yet it often takes centre... Continue Reading →
Welcome to My Blog.
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 →
About Haiku and Tips on Writing them
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 →
Write and draw on the run: a way to get it done!
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 →
An “Ode to My Pencils…”
*Drawn with my fingertip on the iPad, in “Art Set Pro”. The poem was typed up in the “Phonto” app. There's quite a few of my poems, filed away, yet to be illustrated. This one I wrote very recently. I always like to show my poems with an illustration..to my thinking I'm more skilled in... Continue Reading →






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