Tablet art at Shake Shack, Covent Garden.
Tags: London, ArtRage, Covent Garden, Shake Shack, Samsung Galaxy Note, 10.1, Note 3, Note Pro
Date: 06 November 2014 16:12:05
Well, some days are just worth writing about.
I've been lucky enough to be selected as Shack Shack's artist in residence until Christmas. It was a great opportunity which has only become more beautiful and wonderful with the absolutely fabulous Christmas decorations which they have put up - huge and extraordinary baubles.
...which made it a fabulous place to run a tablet art class:
Time wise it was a tricky one... We had to be at the College in the morning and then had the afternoon and early evening to be there. We got the first train possible and arrived just shy of 3pm. All of the students found their seats and I dished out the tablets we would be using: 3 x Samsung Note 10.1s, 5 x Galaxy Note 3s, a Galaxy tab 10.1 and a Note Pro 12.9 inch tablet.
Basically? Samsung all the way :) Which is fine - I've often said how much I like the S-Pen integration and the only thing that has given me hesitation about the devices have been the lack of some of my favourite apps.
But one of my favourite apps, ArtRage, has hit the Android store in a partnership with Samsung for the next few months (it'll be available on other Android devices in 2015.
We were joined by three very cool tablet artists: Jonathan Lawlor, Edward Ofosu and Valerie Beeby. I'll post their artwork into this thread soon but here are some of the pieces my students did, on their first shot with ArtRage on Samsung Galaxy tablets. We had an hour and a half to draw and Shake Shack spoiled us rotten.
and the first piece by one of the visiting artists (mine is the picture above this text incidentally) is by the very fabulous Edward Ofosu :)
More to come... More pics being uploaded tomorrow and over the weekend :) The very marvellous Dame Kath of Jones (below) took a huge amount of photos which I can't wait to see when I catch up with her next...
