I’ve been meaning to do this. Those irises made me do it.
Procreate. iColorama. Apple Pencil. iPad Pro.
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Merced Art Hop
Almost two weeks ago I participated in – as an artist – my first Merced Art Hop (MAH). I was stationed at Binary Systems Computer Repair on the corner of Main St. and M St. in downtown Merced, CA.. About 20 people stopped in to chat and see prints on canvas and paper of my digital, iPad drawings. I learned a lot, sold a piece, and got an order for a larger canvas print of one of the images. As folks strolled by, I sketched these two drawings of my view shed in Procreate (with final touches in iColorama).
click on image to enlarge to full size: 4096 x 1714
Public (Utility) Art
I see this bank of gas meters when I walk out into the alley behind the Merced Multicultural Arts Center, and each time I wonder, is it a mural? Is it public art?
One courageous barn owner volunteered her barn for a pilot study of sorts.
Board Games
Nothing political, just trying out a fill feature in Tayasui Sketches II, followed by a few colorful tweaks in iColorama and Procreate.
Celebrating Soil Chemistry and More: Professor Samuel J. Traina
What a unique, April 9, 2016 event! A combination 60th birthday celebration, soil chemistry symposium, and dinner…all in one! A couple of Professor Traina’s former graduate students, along with a handful of local helpers, organized the surprise event to celebrate his academic career (to date). Currently, Sam is Vice Chancellor for Research & Economic Development at U.C. Merced. Additional former graduate students, a former professor, and several colleagues from around the country and beyond traveled in and joined a small cohort of Sam’s administrative colleagues at U.C. Merced along with a few family members and friends for preprandials, prepared talks, poster presentations, and, of course, ample roasting in the California Room on the campus of U.C. Merced.
I wasn’t carrying my iPad, but I did have with me what I call my Whiteberry, a leather index card and ink pen holder, which I used to produce this:
When I got home, I inserted a photo of that image into Procreate on my iPad Pro, and with the help of another photo import, my Apple Pencil, and iColorama, I generated this graphic record of such a heart warming event:
Morning Water Tower
GMC Pickup Truck, El Portal and N. Parsons in the foreground. Water tower in the background.
Procreate, iColorama, Apple Pencil, iPad Pro
Left on R Street…
…right in front of me, here in Merced, CA.
Based on one of the last photos I took using my iPhone the other day before the camera went on the fritz.
Procreate, iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, iColorama
Throw back Thursday
I started this one on a cool, drizzly Monday evening and finished it this morning, a Tuesday, before naming it “Throw back Thursday.” It’s a cousin of ours from way back.
You’re one click away from the photo reference that I brought into Procreate for a side by side, free hand drawing on my iPad Pro with Apple Pencil, finger, and ultimately, iColorama for final touches. Click here for 25-sec progress video.
Happy Anniversary, Annyth
Here’s a quick, freehand, digital impression of Heinz Chapel on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, PA, where I got married to the love of my life, Annyth, aka, Zoydenia de la Barca on March 20, 1993. A classmate of ours at the time in the Anthropology Department at American University, Hal Recinos, performed the ceremony. It was a beautiful service, and it marks what remains the biggest and most perpetually revolving turning point in my life. Happy anniversary, Annyth.
(Procreate, Apple Pencil, iColorama)
Wedding Invitation:
Click on artwork by Sandra McPeake to enlarge.
The recessional music that we picked was the fifth movement, in F major, of Symphony for Organ No. 5 (1879) composed by Charles-Marie Widor, often referred to as simply Widor’s Toccata. Click on the YouTube video to hear a recording of Widor himself – at the age of 89 – play his Toccata.
Reception: Christophers on Mt. Washington in Pittsburgh, PA (currently the Monterey Bay Fish Grotto)
the youngsters themselves…back then
For Congressional Constipation and Ideological Obstruction
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