Amma -- My Favorite and my First iPad Art student !!

Presenting you the art created using an iPad and a stylus of my first and most favorite iPad Art student--- My mother :)

My mother just watched me create art and was inspired to try it  herself. She has no experience using an iPad, PC or a stylus before.  All  paintings below are created using my most favorite app- Artrage!

Title: My delicious Ice cream
Medium: iPad painting

Title: A pink and an yellow Fish
Medium: iPad Painting

Title: The Lotus
Medium: iPad Painting

Title: The Lotus
Medium: iPad Painting

Title: Amma's Rangoli
Medium: iPad Painting

Title: Amma's Kolam
Medium: iPad painting

With that I will leave you all with another quote that will inspire you all to create art by Henri Matisse

" Creative people are Curious,Flexible,Persistent and Independent with a Tremendous spirit of Adventure and a love of Play "-- Henri Matisse

See you all with another post, Until then take care  and inspire others to create !

 

The Party is Here !

I created this poster for my Zumba class on my iPad. This is going away as a gift for my Zumba Family !

Title:  Zumba--The Party is Here !
Apps used: Artisian,iColrama and Sketch club
Medium: iPad painting

For those of you who don't know what Zumba, here is a little trivia taken from Wikipedia. More info can be found at their website--- www.zumba.com.

Zumba is a dance fitness program created by Colombian dancer and choreographer Alberto "Beto" Perez during the 1990's.  Zumba involves dance and aerobic elements. It is a collage of hip-hop,samba, salsa,soca,merengue,mambo and martial arts.

This is what I end up doing post MDAC !

It's been almost 12 days since MDAC summit at the Pacific Art League,  Palo Alto,CA. It was a wonderful experience for me. Got to meet a lots of interesting artists and also got to try, explore and create art with new apps. My particular favorite ones were iColorama session , Collage session , Portrait session using Sketch club app and 3D Printing demo. I have been hooked onto all these apps  ever since the summit and I have been voraciously creating art with these apps. Here is the proof of the pudding !

Title: The Mythical Fairy
Medium: iPad Painting
Apps used: Sketchclub

Note: I generally shy away from portraits as this is not my forte. The above painting  was my first attempt using sketch club and I pretty happy with the way this painting turned out. Since I mostly paint abstracts, I liked the way this painting turned out ( it gives an abstract feel to this painting). I created this painting at the MDAC summit's portrait demo session.

Title: The Pink Flower
Medium: iPad Pinting
Apps used: iOrnament and iColoram

Title: Rise of the Planet of the Reptiles !
Medium: iPad painting
Apps used: Fractile Plus, Sketch club, iOrnament, iColorama and 123D Sculpt

Note: For the above art the  title needs no introduction. I wanted to create a collage of all my new found favorite apps into one painting except of Fractile  Plus App off-course. 

Title: Super Moon !
Medium: iPad painting
Apps used: Artisian and iColorama

 Note:  The above painting is created from a photo that I took of the super moon that was visible last weekend. When I posted this painting in the iPad Artists  Facebook's  page,  I never expected that this will receive so many likes.

Title: It's a Tornado !
Medium: iPad painting
Apps used: Fractile Plus, iOranament and iColorama

Note: I had mentioned earlier (refer to my Tornado post in my blog) that I am creating a series of Tornado pantings. Well, this is another one in the series. Some how Tornado's  and fractals fascinate me, so you will see more soon. 

Title : Dancing Yoda
Medium: iPad painting
Apps used: Artisian and 123D Creature

Title: RIP-- Robin Williams
Medium: iPad painting
Apps used: Artrage and iColrama

Note:  The above painting is a quick doodle on one of my favorite actors who passed away yesterday.  When I posted this painting in the iPad Artists  Facebook's  page,  I never expected that this will  also receive so many likes.

I am yet to make friends with Procreate and Skribl. Will eventually get there. Meanwhile my friend and also a great artist made a video of the MDAC summit and posted it on Sunnyvale Art Club's facebook page. Here is the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIoNMwl1B8o

Thanks for saying "Hello" to my blog. See you all soon with another post. Until then take care and have a creative day !

“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. ”-- Pablo Picasso. 

#ArtRage  #icolorama  #123dcreature #artisian  #iOrnament   #digital #sketchclub

Mobile Digital Art Summit Exhibition and Workshop Aug 1-3, 2014

The Mobile Digital Art Summit Exhibition and Workshop  is happening on Aug 1-3,2014 at the Pacific Art League’s newly renovated historic building at 668 Ramona Street, Palo Alto, CA 94301.

The Exhibition is on Aug 1, 2014 between 5:30 to 8 pm. Entry is free and you need to get your free tickets at this website http://www.mdacsummit.org/

The workshops are held on Aug 2 and 3, 2014. It is a paid event. For program and registration details do check up their website.

For those of you who cannot make it to this event, Here is a picture of my painting that made it to the top 77 artists out of 665 entries  from Digital/iPad artists from all over the world. All entries were judged  by a team of expert Digital/iPad artists.

Title: The Radiant Star
Apps used: Fractile Plus and Artrage
Medium: Digital/iPad Painting

I will be there on Aug 1st and Aug 3rd. Looking forward to meeting you all.

" You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals"

Yippee-------- I made it to the top 100 artists

 Feeling Accomplished: There was a call for artists by the Mobile Digital Summit for this show and there were a whooping  number of 720 entries from artists all around the world for this.  All entries were juried and only top 100 artworks from artists around the world were selected. I made it to the top 100 Mobile Digital Artists from artist's around the world. Results were announced on June 20,2014 (Pacific Std Time).

The  Grand Opening of Mobile Digital Art Exhibition will be  on August 1st,2014, Friday 5:30pm - 8pm,There will be Fun, Music, Food & Wine, Live iPad painting, FREE entry! All are welcome.

The 2 Day Summit will be on Aug 2nd,2014 ( Saturday) and Aug 3rd,2014 ( Sunday) between 8:30 am to 5.00pm. There will be workshops and masterclasses and it is a paid event. For program info and registration details please visit this link http://www.mdacsummit.org/program.html

Venue: The Exhibition and Summit will be held in the Pacific Art League’s newly renovated historic building at 668 Ramona Street, Palo Alto, CA 94301.

Jury panel for Mobile Digital Art Exhibition are as follows: 

•  David Jon Kassen is an internationally recognized contemporary American painter, filmmaker, and philanthropist best known for his life-size representational paintings, which combine figurative subjects with abstract backgrounds or “tromp l’oeil texture studies.
• Kyle Lambert is a British Visual Artist who is known for his digital painting and illustration work created with the iPad and Mac.Kyle's recent photo realistic iPad portrait of Morgan Freeman created an internet sensation. It received over 13 million views on YouTube and continue to attract global media coverage on iPad paintings. 
• Susan Murtaugh,  is a graduate of the Chicago Academy of Fine Art. She's worked over 40 years in advertising and graphic design, including 25 years as Principal of her own design firm. Her work and tutorials have been featured in Digital Artist Magazine and online. She has curated several international digital art shows, She loves teaching others the joys of mobile digital art.
• Jo Killen has an  MA in Art Education from Manhattanville in New York. She brings years of experience in art teaching varying from pottery and sculptor to commercial art as graphic designer, illustrator and art director.  She is currently the exhibition chair and president of the Board of Pacific Art League, Palo Alto. 
• Corliss Blakely, an established professional artist and seventh generation Vermonter, paints still lifes and landscapes in a classically realist style. Corliss received her formal art training in Boston where she studied at the Vesper George Art School and The Museum School Of Fine Art. Corliss is an internationally recognized artist for her work in several media, including watercolor, oil, and egg tempera. Her paintings hang in collections worldwide. Corliss is one of many professional artists who are embracing the iPad. The iPad lets her create anywhere without the space requirements, supply expenses. and toxic exposure of traditional media.

Note: Information about the Jury panel taken from this website  http://www.mdacsummit.org/jury-panel.html

Here is a picture of the painting that made it to the top 100 

Title: The Radiant Star
Medium: iPad Painting
Apps used: Fractile Plus and Artrage

See you all soon with another creative post soon. Thanks for hopping by. 

" A Creative Attitude is the fuel of progress and growth"

Awards --- In recent months this year (2014) from my Art Club monthly competition

Here are some pictures of paintings that won awards (ribbons)  in the recent months for the club's monthly art competition. 

Title: Remembering my pet "Alilu"
Size: 9"x 12" Watercolor paper
Medium: Pen and Ink

This painting " Remembering my pet Alilu"  won 2nd place at the Monthly Art Competition held on June 19,2014 at the Sunnyvale Art Club. The monthly theme was " Animals"

Title: Padma-- The Sacred Lotus
Size: 11 x 14", Watercolor paper
Medium: Pen and Ink

This painting " Padma-- The Sacred Lotus" won 3rd place on April 18,2014 at the monthly art competition.(  don't have a picture with the ribbon for this) from Sunnyvale Art Club. The theme was "Flowers" for month of  April. 

Title: Airavata-- The Elephant in Heaven
Size: 12 x 16"
Medium: Pen and Ink

This painting " Airavata-- The Elephant in Heaven " won 2nd place on March 21, 2014 at the monthly art competition.(  don't have a picture with the ribbon for this) from Sunnyvale Art Club. The theme was " Anything Goes" for the month in March. 

With Awards/Ribbons as a theme for this post, I came across this wonderful quote from Jane Fonda for you all to think about.  

See you all with another Creative post soon. 

"You don't learn from successes; you don't learn from awards; you don't learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that's the truth." -- Jane Fonda

#zentangle #sakuraofamerica  #award 

A feather in my cap !

My painting " Airavata-- The Elephant in Heaven" won 3rd place at the Sunnyvale Art Club's  Juried  show held on June 7 and June 8th, 2014 at the Sunnyvale Public Library. Totally feeling accomplished !

Here is a picture with the ribbon 

Title: Airavata- The Elephant in Heaven
Medium: Pen and Ink
Size: 16" x 14"

 This show was held at the Sunnyvale Public Library on June 7 and June 8,2014 and the judge for this show was Cathy Zander who is an Art Instructor at Pacific Art League,  Community School of Music and arts etc.

Here is the postcard created for the show

 I thank the judge for her time, critiques and kind words.

 With that I will leave you all  with another quote to think of and see you all in a new blog post

" The highest wisdom is kindness."

 #zentangle  #sakuraofamerica    #award