#Catching the 365.

Categories: artwork

Tags: Microsoft, Fresh Paint, Surface, MS Surface RT, Catch The 365

Date: 10 February 2013 17:36:14

So, a week and a half ago (I REALLY should have blogged about this earlier but it has been that hectic for the past ten days) I was delighted to be asked to be the artist in residence on the 365: Microsoft's launch bus for new Office. It was a wonderful day as, I hope, the photos attest: (Painted on the moving walkway on the way to the bus... Couldn't resist)..   The bus at Marble Arch. (this picture was drawn using Snap - trace - paint. Which I like. But... well... there's some issues...) There was an absolutely fabulous band who performed both on and off the bus. Wish I could link to them but in all of our chats about life and gigs and cider and busses I completely failed to ask the band name... (aha! A quick search finds out that they were called the Ray Guns... Amazing they was. Very cool stuff...) (Not my favourite picture of the day and I do keep intending to come back to it... But most paintings here had to be completed in around five minutes with strange and odd viewing angles so I did the best I could throughout :) ) I got to sit behind, and listen to, and paint while the bus was moving, Will Greenwood. Which, when I got back to College the next day had a few of my students grumpily green with envy. For a start, and I probably shouldn't be surprised, but OH MY GOODNESS he has got huge hands. Painting on the bus was... well... not always easy but not hard either (it's one of my zone choices if time allows. That said drawing on a new tablet and a new app on an old style bus that was a smidge trickier.. Still, it all came together in the end - was a very concerted and concentrated 7 hour stint of drawing and, like I said, an extremely cool bunch of people to be around. And to be honest Will looked he was having difficulty even standing up as he was talking; at least I managed to find a seat to draw from :) ).   And, throughout the day, a slightly hobo chic dressed doodler was a part of the show, drawing the talks and the gigs and so on and explaining, to those who asked, what it was like to draw on a tablet and which app I was using and which stylus and so on and so forth. If you were one of the people who stopped to ask if I was part of the show - thanks! I loved being a part of it but can fully understand why the magicians, guys on stilts and rock stars got the bigger applause :) More to come, I hope. I've certainly not stopped drawing on Surface and Fresh Paint... All images here were drawn and painted using Fresh Paint app and Autodesk Sketchbook Espress (bar one which I made using a different app as noted). Both have capacity to grow and I look forward to seeing where updates take them but, if you're drawing and painting on a Surface RT they're excellent apps to take advantage of. Another post to come later on working with the Surface RT and a variety of apps but suffice to say I REALLY like Metro, I love the industrial design of the Surface and Fresh Paint app has a feature so good that if I could marry it I would consider it as a viable option.