Same sketchbook.

Getting more of my non-digital work online is one of the many things I want to do before the end of the year, so I took some time to scan a few drawings.

This drawing is from a sketchbook that is roughly six years old. Most of the drawings were done with India ink and the standard Hunt drawing pen points. A brush makes an appearance from time to time.

by the estuary from Norm DeValliere on Vimeo.

I love painting with a variety of apps for the iPhone, like Brushes 2.0, or Layers, or the very awesome Mobile Sketchbook from Autodesk. Brushes is my favorite, though; it’s a model of simple usability. It offers few choices in the tools being used. It also records every stroke as it is being applied, so you can view the evolution of the painting as a kind of stop-motion animation. I find it amusing (and irritating)  to see how many times I “paint over” the entire field and begin again.

I have been uploading the images to Flickr, but I thought some of the videos might prove interesting. Other than the fact that I do them on my iPhone with the Brushes app, the way I build up the image is the same way I would in traditional media. I use the same approach to oil painting on canvas, watercolor on paper, or printing a monotype.  Abstract expressionist methods – very little in the way of planning. Just start painting. It works out sometimes.