Drawn with iDraw for the iPad.
IPhone photo taken with the toycamera app and painted on the iPad using the Procreate app.
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- Self portrait, done with iDraw
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- Bill, done with iDraw
I recently updated my iPad to the latest generation, mainly for artistic purposes. It makes all the painting and drawing apps I use so much faster and smoother, and the retina display is very nice. My favorite app lately has been iDraw. I love how affordable vector drawing programs have become after years of figuring out how to justify paying for Adobe Illustrator. I also love the feel of being able to edit bezier curves directly on the screen using a stylus.
These started out as photos, which I posterized using the filterstorm app. I then spent a few hours vectorizing them in iDraw, using about five different shades of gray. They both still could use some tweaking. Oh, if only I had the time to sit around all day tweaking bezier curves.
That’s what I need to tell myself sometimes. I get so stressed out and the process of cooking can be so soothing. It’s easy to let cooking slide into the category of all the other things I hate about being a housewife (laundry, straightening up, doing the dishes, more laundry.) But then I remember that I actually like to cook. And I especially love cooking something that will be appreciated. There is nothing I can cook that will be appreciated by my young children, who would be happy to subsist entirely on happy meals and goldfish. So I mistakenly let cooking drift into the category of things I hate about being a housewife.
After the stress of getting 3 little kids out the door with their Valentines day crap, I realized I had neglected to eat breakfast and I made this. Fried polenta with a tomato basil brunoise, and feta scrambled eggs. And darn it was good.
