Sunset on Samsung Premier event night...
Categories: artwork, general-stuff, events
Tags: Mobile digital art, Nomad Brush, Digital Art, Samsung Galaxy art, Samsung, Samsung art, Samsung Galaxy 8.9, sunset
Date: 23 June 2013 11:11:20
Was a bit sad to not be able to get to the Samsung Premier launch on Thursday night, especially as it was one of the unusual nights that I was free from work or so on. The day after was the EV for my A level graphics guys so it's not as if I would have gone with nothing on my mind... But as it was the EV seems to have gone as well as I could have hoped for (I'm not counting chickens 'til the Fat Colonel has heated the oil yet though. More on that in a future blog post, the EV, not the Colonel's secret oil temperature*).
I did watch it on the event on the live stream but having been to a good old line up of product launches this year it was one I would have been especially keen to get to, especially as the Ativ Q and Galaxy Zoom look like a lot of fun to use.
That said: I saw this sunset while I was putting the bins out (exciting peek into the world of tablet art there) which I would have missed otherwise (silver linings eh :) ) so whipped out my trusty old (but beginning to show its age) Galaxy 8.9 and drew as quick as I could (brackets distraction brackets). Photoshop Touch runs very well on the machine, apart from the odd moment of catching up with itself, but the main miss for me is the SPen which the tablet I own predates by quite a margin... I fell in love with the SPen on the Notes and 10.1s the college borrowed to do the Barbican and MCM projects from last year (as well as drawing the off cup of coffee) and the brief play I had with the Note 8 at the Gadget Show Live seemed to indicate it was as well implemented on that tablet if not better.
Anyhow: lovely sunset it was, didn't last that long at all though so I was lucky to have caught it... The moment I finished I had to put son boy to bed so it was very much a 'catch the moment' picture.
*An EV is where someone from the awarding body comes to the College I work at and checks my marking (and, by implication, teaching). I'm always a bit nervous on such dates as art and graphics are such subjective courses but, for the most part, the only criticism I've ever received is that I'm 'Tolerably Generous' which I liked so much I could have had framed :)
This year was different though, in as much as the students and I had gone much more tablet art and events centric - not to mention the fact that one class had a quarter ASD students which made it an unusual and, more often than not, brilliantly strange place to be. One student who is the highest on the ASD spectrum that we've ever taken through mainstream education should be recieving, as long as the grade boundaries don't change, a C grade in A level graphics which has been a lot of work and will be wonderful reward.
More to come when the grades are given, mid August, which I'll be there for, hopefully celebrating with the students.