iDraw: Moving My Ten Foot Tall Painting: 2009.08.04

Moving My Ten Foot Tall Painting: 2009.08.04, originally uploaded by Julia Kay.

This weekend I had to take down and move my 8 by 10 foot painting, 'Medusa of the Annunciation'. Many thanks to my fantastic crew: Guy, Melissa, Nicola & Martin. More thanks to Martin & Margaret for providing a temporary home for this monster.

Had He Noticed I Was Taking Pictures of Myself (Again)

In the Coit Conference Room at the Whitcomb Hotel in San Francisco, California, USA

Mirrored Elevator Doors

Conference Hotel Room

Last month I was at the Whitcomb Hotel in San Francisco, California, USA, for the Annual General Meeting of the American Society for the Alexander Technique. I wasn't staying at the hotel, but some of my friends were, so when we needed to take a break, we hung out in their room.

This was done in the traditional way with a pen on paper.

iDraw: View From Above

View From Above: 2009.07.09

This was done on my iPod Touch using three Apps: Brushes, Jackson Pollack and Type Drawing.

We Were All Waiting for the Train

We Were All Waiting for the Train: 2009.07.08 , originally uploaded by studiojuliakay.

This was done with the PaintBook App on my iPod Touch (I used a photo for reference).

My shortish review of Paintbook is:
Cons: I don't like Paintbook's palette, it doesn't have an eyedropper, there's undo but no redo, and all the line types have a hard edge.

Pros: Very high resolution for an IDraw app (This drawing is 1706X2048), you can change the size of the 'paper', you can turn the 'paper' in addition to zooming, and there are two kinds of opacity - one where you can lighten a dark color, ie like transparent acrylics, and another where you can only darken, ie watercolors. The latter allows me to 'paint' washes that overlap my black lines without affecting the lines themselves.

The Next Day (Cycle of Life)

Trite but true: yesterday's glory is gone, but new buds will open soon.

Incredible Glory - But Just For One Day

I guess that's why they're called 'Day Lilies'...

iDraw My First Camera (Final)

iDraw: Big Brown Furry Hat

iDraw: Sisters in Colored Clothes

Tomorrow skin tones and hair...

Two days ago I worked watercolors over an inkjet print of a scanned pen drawing. Today I'm painting digitally over a scanned pen drawing. Making corrections while I did this, made me realize that there is finally a really clean way to 'erase' pen lines.. draw in pen, scan into computer, erase in photoshop, print back out and continue drawing or even watercoloring. The Canson inkjet paper I use has a great texture and takes watercolor very well.. unfortunately they're also not making it anymore. *sigh*

Happy to be With My Big Sis (In Color)

iDraw: In The Green Box, From Above

I Sat in the Room with the Still Life

iDraw: I'm Excited to be Planning a Trip to Yosemite

Excavator Operator

I imagined that instead of Pacifc Gas & Electric waking us up at 7:30 AM all month, I was operating the equipment outside the home of the PG & E supervisor or whichever brilliant San Francisco governing board decided construction noise could start that early.

In the Dark Room

Heat Wave: Morning Light

Sometimes I Almost Get It

Easter Sunday

Still really enjoying my de Kooning immersion....

Sanity is Over-rated

Be Afraid, Very Afraid

I can look at a de Kooning and make these sort of interesting images that don't actually look like de Koonings. But if I look at myself, or at nothing, and try to make a similar drawing - well, it doesn't work. I can see what he drew, and how it relates to reality. But when I look at reality, I can't see what he might have drawn. And I can't see what I might draw in response to what he might have drawn... Never mind, this is getting too complicated.

de Kooning Week Continues

Still Crazy After All These Years

(Left-handed De Kooning)

iDraw: There Was an Airplane Hanging Over the Escalator at SFO

We Did It!

It took 15 months, but today we delivered the first release of the BIG PROJECT at work. Many thanks to all the people who contributed to completing this project on time!

One More Night to Dream About Completing the BIG PROJECT at Work

iDraw: Holding Nothing

Whiteout, Now and Then

iDraw: It's Fun to Draw with my Finger!

Familiar Objects: Fishing For Keys

There's an Elephant in the Kitchen

Or perhaps it's a mad dog...

Dance of the Proportional Dividers

Dual Rule

Toy Truck

I Own Many Pairs of Scissors

iDraw: What Was I Wearing On My Head?

iDraw: Big-Headed Shadow

iDraw: Still Figuring Out

... the different effects I can get in these iDrawing programs.

iDraw: Little Bootsie

An homage to Liz Mamorsky's Big Bootsie. They say Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, so you already know I think her sculptures are fantastic and you should check them out!

iDraw: A Fantastic Hat!

...but perhaps not the right hat for me!

iDraw: Borrowed Birthday Balloon Hat

How could I possibly resist it?

Sisters

Well, January is over, and I think I'll give the childhood series a rest for now. It's been more challenging than I expected - I'm not going to be signing up to be a child-portrait-artist anytime soon.

It's Hard Drawing Children!!

I Gave Her My Rapt Attention

What exactly is it that makes this look like a Linda Barry cartoon?

The Little Princess as a Smirking Bobble-Head

iDraw: The Little Princess - ala Warhol

The Little Princess - 4 Going on 14

I'm not such a vamp in the source photo, so I suppose I'll try again tomorrow.

iDraw: I Imagined Myself as Edith Head

We've been having a Columbo fest, and I've been meaning to draw myself as Columbo, but tonight I couldn't resist Hollywood costume designer Edith Head, who made a guest appearance as herself on the Columbo episode we watched this evening. Seeing her we also realized that Edith clearly was the inspiration for the costume designer Edna in The Incredibles.

Seussical!

A friend is involved in a performance of Seussical but I'm not going to be able to make it to Boston to see the show. If you're closer to Boston, please check it out! Meanwhile, the invitation inspired me to imagine myself as The Cat in the Hat - fits right in with all my other hatted portraits!

Happy Birthday, Mom!

Thanks for holding on to me!