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I use my phone(s) to create not only illustrated and painted imagery but also in the more traditional manner that people use it for nowadays: as a camera.
The main difference is that I also use a range of apps to edit, collate, distort and share the pictures and videos I've taken. One of my favourite messages was from the makers of Autostitch app asking me how I broke their panorama app but they were delighted every time I did so.
It's fascinating to me how much a phone can achieve - although there is a concern to me how much phones have taken over the mindset of, especially the young. Regardless, for me, a phone is a creation station that I adore using when the mood is on me. Certainly at an event it delights me that I can video what is happening, edit it on the train home and share it the same day.
More to come on this one but if I had to pick one painting that is my favourite of all time it would be Marcel DuChamp's Nude Descending a Staircase. I was lucky enough to go to Seattle for an event so, being given the option of planning my own flight plan I spent the extra money and went to Philadelphia to see it in the canvas. It was ABSOLUTELY a magical moment but, for some reason, I decided to immortalise the moment by turning a series of photos of it into Pac Man. Up to you to decide whether I've digitally vandalised fine art but, for me, the progression was how it should be :)
Can't remember the phone but it would have used a spherise app as well as Snapseed and ArtFlow.
If I see a cool lightbulb, and am in a position to photograph it at close range I ALWAYS DO. And sometimes the weird stares from others are well worth it. Similarly if I see a flower or rock surface that I like I'm zooming in with app and my own personal space.
Photography?
No.
But I remember emery moment of creating this artwork on an iPhone (4, I think) with Brushes app. I woke up at 2am on the final day of Hockney's Fresh Flowers exhibition in Paris and thought 'WHY AM I MISSING THIS!'
So I booked a Eurostar, got up at 6am. was in Paris at around 10, got one of the last Eurostar's back and was at home at midnight. I MIGHT have been teaching the following day but that might be an exageration... honestly can't remember that bit.
I CAN remember drawing this start to end on the train from St Pancras to Paris and getting VERY odd looks as I photographed, and used as textures, the floor, seats and all other fabrics I could get my lens on to add to the photo.
Opposite me there was a Japanese family who, to this day, were trying to work out what the hell I was doing....
And sometimes I REAAAAAALY mess about with a couple of photos. These aren't mine, the original pictures, but were from a series of images from... Advanced Photoshop magazine?... with the challenge to edit them in some way. One was a beach, one was a sunset, can't remember the rest. I used Photoshop to do something VERY different and won second place (which, story of my life, I looked at the first place winner and thought... bit standard). I think my artistic life would have been a LOT different if I stuck to standard.
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