Join the Digital Painting Revolution!

I love this concept that artists like their impressionist predecessors are going out in open and public spaces with the new technology and capturing the world through their computers, carrying around a whole studio is an attractive prospect for any artist, but the technology is still catching up to the artists needs my tablet pen from wacom is good enough for my needs at present but the line it produces is pretty rough in comparison with my real pen on paper. Also problems arise with the cost of the hardware and in an age were you can be mugged in the street for your smartphone or laptop, sitting on a bench drawing on your £500 Ipad is asking for trouble lets face it. 

Last year i completed a series of digital Paintings on my iphone and although the results where pretty nice the small screen was pretty aggravating. 

 Starting with the Sketchbook app from autodesk some still lives in my kitchen excited me with the super fast range of colours and was delighted to find the app supported layers. However.....

...... i realised early on that the medium had a very limited size ability
and it would only be possible to create small objects close up as the resolution was pretty low. I tried a number of apps  and finaly found
Paintbook a really powerful vector app that basicly has an unlimited canvas size and the work took a huge leap in scope...















This series of ice-cream vans (http://ciarangallagher.carbonmade.com/projects/3102798#1) I cant seem to upload were produced on Paintbook App and were heavily influenced by Olivier Kugler (more about him later)