Category Archives: Digital Sketches

Printing Circle

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The ever present battle with pixels. I battle with them, but also accept them, they are brush strokes of sorts. I have tried to enhance the image that came off the iPhone. How does it look? I think it will print up well after this fiddle, click to enlarge.

Later:

I printed both and the one straight off the iphone was better. Printing took care of the pixelation quite well. Mind you I am printing these images about 12cm wide on A4 paper.

Helga

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One reason I synced to that last one is that I wanted to put it through some tweaks on the phone. I can edit on the phone in a way that I can’t on the PC.

Another version follows, possibly the one I like best. Strangely the iPhone app did a good job of increasing the resolution beyond what I did on the PC!

The app also does the thumbnailing pretty well, but I have made them a bit bigger.

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Telephone brings back drawing – Hockney

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Hockney is making iSketches! Great.

Here he is in one of my digital efforts!

This is one of his iPhone images. Found it here, plenty more there.

Later:
OOOpsss! Apparently these are not iphone but done on a tablet.

There are several drawings of Hockney’s brother, Paul, and his sister, Margaret; and in each picture the subjects seem mesmerised by a small gadget in their hands, which turns out to be an iPhone — Hockney’s latest enthusiasm: “Yes, my brother and sister sat there for three or four hours, totally engrossed.” Hockney is thrilled that he has finally persuaded Celia Birtwell to buy one so that he can send her pictures: “I draw flowers on them and send them out every morning to a group of people.”

He demonstrates, tracing his finger over the tiny screen with such absorption that I worry he will stop talking altogether. “Who would have thought the telephone would bring back drawing?” he exclaims with glee.

“It’s such a great little device, it has every Shakespeare play in it and the Oxford English dictionary. In your pocket! But it’s also amusing, look at this.” He blows into it and his new toy becomes a harmonica.

Walter Logeman: Gallery – Outliers

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I’ve done it. I have just put up a new display in in the

Walter Logeman: Gallery

I am highlighting 10 prints I have not really put on display before – they are all from the Thousand Sketches, but they have not been in other shows as far as I recall.

They are all different in style & media, but I think they are a unified collection as well. When I was gathering them up it was clear to me – though I can’t explain it – which ones were in, and which were out, maybe their simplicity.

Here are a couple from the set, the first & the last:

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This one is very early on in the Thousand Sketches – I recall thinking I can do a thousand in a year easily, I was churning them out in minutes. It proved more difficult of course!

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This one is a meditation on how in my birth year 1944 Lee Krassner was painting gray slabs and destroying them. Unconsciously doing a conceptual art work in tune with the holocaust deaths in Germany.