DIGITAL ART - I HATE MY IPAD

Come with me as I inspire to convince myself not to hate technology.

As a Capricorn, I have always been very stubborn in my beliefs and stern with my words. I've always clamed I HATE technology and that all I want is to get my hands dirty, feel the grass and breath the fresh air of a field rather than man made air from an office air conditioning system. But in the 2020 lock down from some state of mentality I ordered an iPad. I tried my best to get along with it for a couple of months until I remembered that I am always right, and the iPad life just was not the life for me and that even if I tried my very hardest I cannot for the life of me work technology.

Until now. Last month when looking for some ink pens in my draws under a huge pile of scrap paper I found that iPad, and in a student loan state of regret after blowing £600 on a "mistake" I decided now was the time to dust off the case and stick a charger in it. I gritted my teeth and payed £8.99 to downloaded Procreate. All I can say is my flatmates, girlfriend and family are sick of me becoming an iPad kid, I simply cannot and will not stop. My eyes have been opened to digital art and this long intro is to introduce a digital artist that has really inspired me:

DAVID HOCKNEY.

Who is one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century. Hockney is an English painter, draftsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. And rose to popularity due to his incredible contribution to the pop art movement of the 1960s. However in recent years David's adapted with the times and in 2009 he started his iPad art. Which many critics debate whether this classes are "real" art; it most definitely is to me and I'm sure David shares the same view. His work is beautiful, ruff and colourful and I really take visual inspiration from his pieces.

When entering the industry and the Fine Art course in September I hope to work within this digital medium as it opens a whole world of creation and further creativity transforming and distorting images completely. But similarly to David I want to have a broad field of many mediums.