More Milo pocket items (well, one)

I know each and every one of you is dying for a picture of my husband, so here's one for Milo. I did this on the iPad in Sketchbook Pro--it's 100% finger painting. I can't seem to keep track of the stylus. It wanders away. Luckily, none of my fingers have wandered away yet. No photo was involved--it did this totally from scratch. Well, I had a photo of him to LOOK at and the real person as well.

For Willie and Balookey: Yellow Lady's Slipper Orchid

I did this "painting" with Sketchpad Pro (by Autodesk) on my iPad and am making prints of it for Willie for his pocket and for Ballookey because she helped me get started on the iPad. I did NOT touch it up on photoshop, this is straight off the iPad--I wanted it to be an untouched iPad picture. I spent several weeks working on it because Sketchpad pro is very slow (for me; I'm a newbie.) Sometimes, I used a pogo stylus, but mostly, I used my finger. I "painted" it from scratch, no photo was used. I did however, use a photo as a reference. The photo I used is one I took myself many years ago in the pouring rain. My mother stood over me with an umbrella. I did not paint all the droplets that were in the photo--that would have taken literally years to do. I just put a few representative ones in. Willie will receive his with his sketchbook. I will mail Ballookey her under separate cover to save for the pocket of her sketchbook. See that floating leaf at the bottom? I tried and tried and it would not write there. So--too bad. The floating leaf is now part of the picture. C'est la vie!

Insomnia! for Willie's Pocket

I did this last night for WIllie on my iPad. Printing it for his pocket. Did it on ColorPad HD. I enhanced it only slightly on the IPad's Qvik Sketch (eg: Colored lips). The background reminds me a little of Steve's fab washes and it might be fun to use one for a background to sketch over like this--which I guess is what he does only much more finely and with better detail. Like Andrea, I'd like to try it, too.