No more dirty hands

The iPad turned out to be a very handy time saving device for the 50 TED portraits. I used it for sketching and trying out different compositions.  The final  portraits were then done with watercolor and ink on paper because I can't do without the feel of a good brush on nice paper! So much so that I've never really started using my Wacom tablet in the past.

I was curious how other artists integrate today's digital tools into their work and started with a visit to Rhonald Blommestijn and Jos Collignon. It was a joy to see the two colleagues at work in their home studio's.

Rhonald Blommestijn does most of the work with his tablet, using sketches or photographs as starting point. In Photoshop he then carefully builds his powerful images to the point where they look like pen drawings, pastel drawings, paintings or photographs. See http://blommestijn.blogspot.com/.



Jos Collignon makes his political cartoons and other drawings with ink/brush on typing paper (!). He then scans the drawing and colors it in Painter.  Painter's amazing 'watercolor' possibilities give him what he wants. Quick, nice and his hands stay clean. Check out his work on http://www.joscollignon.nl.