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Wacom’s Inkling is a digital pen that captures your sketch from paper. Recording your strokes and transferring your sketch digitally for further editing on your computer. The Inkling has a pressure sensitive ballpoint tip and can create layered sketches.
It’s exciting to see new technology unfold, bringing tools that bridge the gap between traditional, freehand sketching and digital input with a mouse or tablet. Both the iPad with its finger-painting and the Inkling give artists the tools to interact more directly with their devices, removing the clunky layer between your hand and your canvas.
A special thank you to my friend, artist Jamie Berry, who brought the Inkling to my attention.
Rain. Digital mixed media inspired by autumn. By nature. By details. Weather and wind. Magnified moments.
This pack of wallpaper includes versions for fullscreen and widescreen computers as well as the iPhone, iPhone 4 and iPad. Members of Club Marmalade Moon receive a November desktop calendar version of “Rain”.
Brooch with crescent moon button made by Mousy Brown's House.
I’ve dedicated this week to working on a series of digital paintings based on sketches and ideas that have been evolving the past few months. Now the time is right for working on them, I’m giving the project time and space and I feel full of creative energy! Isn’t it easy to forget that there are cycles to creativity?
In the meanwhile the ground is still covered with slowly melting ice and snow which tricked me into forgetting that it’s Easter next week! Spring is on its way, and soon it’s time to put together the Spring Edition for members of Club Marmalade Moon.
Speaking of Easter, if you’re looking for a fun crafting project for a beautiful Easter decoration, friendly, clever and crafty Mousy Brown’s House has just the thing! This is also the source of the extraordinary gorgeous purple and gold brooch (in the photo above) that I’m the proud owner of. Notice the vintage button with a crescent moon? What amazing, thoughtful and creative attention to details!
Autumn. Boots and scarf and hat and gloves. Shiny street, wet from the rain, sometimes black with a little purple or blue.
My head is still spinning from this week’s adventure with natural media software, Painter 11. The way the paints interact with each other and the canvas, the texture and detail is mind blowing! Exploring the brushes, markers, chalk, pastels, watercolor and oil, just to mention a few, and if this isn’t enough you can make your own brushes with the RealBristle tool. You can control the width of brush strokes by the tilt of your pen, just like when you use a real, traditional brush! It’s amazing… You can decide to leave a layer of digital watercolor in wet mode, so that it’s still wet when you continue, whether you continue working on your painting a month or a day later! It’s like having access to all the natural media you can imagine, without having to take it out of storage, wash the brushes or deal with the toxins, mess and expenses! There’s a free demo of Painter that you can download to give it a trial run.
This weekend I’m looking forward to visiting the blogs of fellow artists in The Fish Bowl. Seeing Julie and Julia at the beautiful cinema Skandia, designed by Gunnar Asplund in 1923. Creating a reading corner with a grey sheepskin Lamino armchair in the living room and washing the kitchen floor.
I’m Kate England, an artist, illustrator and designer. I’m currently editing my contribution to the book Swedish Illustrators to be published 2012.
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My head is still spinning from this week’s adventure with natural media software, 
This weekend I’m looking forward to visiting the blogs of fellow artists in 
