Category: Brushes App

Clay Mask Monsters

05/09/2013

Much earlier in the school year 5th graders created an additive and subtractive clay masks.
One silly day, I took out all my art room props, stuffed animal, and wings and had them pose before our green screen to become the monster body that matched their clay mask. Well, I thought we could work on putting this together on iPads during their rotation, but the animation idea took our entire time. But luckily our art room now has iPads!

Here is how we layer the pieces together:
1. Choose a background (save to photos)
2. Find your monster pose (save to photos)
3. Find your mask (save to photos)

Click image to chose a background

Click image to find your pose

Click image to find your mask

4. Open up the Brushes app.
5. Click the photo button to bring in the background layer
6. Click the photo button to bring in the pose layer, resize and reposition
7. Click the photo button to bring in the mask layer, resize and reposition
8. Save to the gallery and email it to me (subject line=your name and class)

View the finished artwork on Artsonia at this link or few a few examples below.

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iPad Painting Party

05/07/2013

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Dryden Raffle Winners had an after school art class on Monday where we painted our self-portraits digitally using the Brushes app. You can see I kept a close eye on everyone.

Since we created these in Brushes you can watch the movie of the drawing steps below.

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Playing with the Inkpad app

03/27/2013

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I've finally gained enough confidence using inkpad on the iPad to share my findings. This vector based illustration tool is still new and wonderful to me because it forces me. It treats lines and shapes differently and forces the artist to think in terms of shapes instead of line. It comes with endless forgiveness and revisions that never pixelate when you enlarge. It's perfect for creating a logo that you need to be blown up to 30 feet or shrunk down to 30 pixels.

Here are some of the images I've created using Inkpad so far:

Dryden School Logo design: drawn as shapes, colored and added text as seen in tutorial above

My Caricature: Drawn in inkpad,exported to brushes for coloring.

Figures were drawn in Inkpad, then colored in Procreate, then brought back as a layer into inkpad with text and background added

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Digital Custom Collages on iPads

02/07/2013

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I'm looking for a way to create a class photo collage project where we can add our custom pieces, share them, rotate, resize, overlay, change opacity, and erase parts.
I think MIXEL app used to do this until they changed their format. Muse app is close to what I want except for the customization.
I played with these ideas from my own sources of images in Sketchbook X (and Brushes app). It works, but there may already be an app that makes this easier. Any ideas?

Here is how I started. I imported Edward Hopper's Nighthawks into the Brushes app and color matched and texture matched until I could rub away two of the characters.
Here is my finished file.
Then I pulled in pngs from my collection on layers that I could transform.

Tried Justaposer app for this collage. It does limit you to two images but that's all I wanted for this odd juxtaposition.

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Creating on iPads: A Practice Page

08/12/2012

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I'm gearing up for the school year by collecting my resources and making them easily available for anyone who wants to learn some of my tips for how to create on the iPad. There are tons of apps in the app store, but I tried to limit my ideas to only a few so that we can work with what we have on our school iPads while I explore other apps and begin writing grants to get them in the future. (100 ipads=$$ for each app purchase) so I'm trying to keep it simple. Below is a screen shot of the new page I added to my website. Visit it here. There are links leading to resources, videos, tutorials, and files that you can download from your iPad and get started playing right away.

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You're going to be amazed...

01/03/2012

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You're going to be amazed more by the process (though the product is super cute too!)
Listen to what the kindergartners were able to do on their iPads over the past few weeks in art class: Students spent 3 class sessions trying to learn how to turn on their wireless signals in their setting on iPads, find my website to download their snowman template, import it into the Brushes App, add a layer over the image, choose their brush sizes and colors, digitally paint these adorable snowman accessories, and email me their finished work!
Make sure you congratulate these amazing digital artists! (Hopefully the other classes go as well this week.) See the whole gallery as it grows here.