Shake those Saucy Screens...
Categories: artwork, general-stuff
Tags: London, digital artwork, Covent Garden, Shake Shack
Date: 05 October 2014 18:33:31
How do you follow something as excellent and fun to be a part of as EGX 14?
Well, in my case you start up the next art residency in London. Nothing like a break in proceedings :) I was back teaching the following day after the 6 day marathon of EGX and back in London for my first day painting on Thursday :)
Anyhow: once a week, I'll be very happily sitting in Shake Shack, Covent Garden, soaking up the atmosphere and trying to limit myself to only a couple of things on the menu, whichever day I'm there. The problem is it all looks so tasty :)
This week, it being their Shack-Toberfest special week, I limited myself to... well... maybe more than a couple of things which related to their specials of the week. A fabulous burger, a very medicinal cup of half and half (lemonade and iced tea. Manna for a throat which had accompanied me through the 100 hour week which was Eurogamer Expo):
50/50. Drawn on Tesco Hudl using Adobe Photoshop Touch app and a New Trent Arcadia stylus.
Happy ShackToberFest. Drawn on Microsoft Surface RT using Fresh Paint app and Dagi 501.
All in all it was spectacularly tasty and I'm delighted to be joining them between now and Christmas.
Of course, me being me, you know that there will be some interactive sessions and, I hope, the students might well be involved at some point (towards the end or possibly at the start of the coming year, still working on a college calendar of events and happenings at the moment). I'm intending to test drive the Hudl 2 while there next week and so on and so forth.
It's a strange thing to say but if you've ever wanted to work out which stylus works best with which screen, or if you'd like a quick demo of an art app on your phone or tablet, then Shake Shack, generally on a Wednesday, might be the best place to be! I'll happily run through which app is best on which device or which stylus might be worth a test drive... but I'll be just ask happy to sit and paint a burger, drink or lovely, yummy, cup of Concrete. I could explain but I think it's the sort of thing you should experience.
More, much more, artwork to come. Exciting stuff. Thanks Shake Shack for liking my digital artwork enough to want me to take up a table on a regular basis and I look forward to seeing what comes from the partnership.