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ARTISTS GALLERY - Mike Ainscough
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I've been drawing and painting on and off for most of my life - in between working as a professional librarian by day (now retired) and a professional musician by night - and have always carried a camera with me. In my younger days, my drawings and watercolours were done seated on a small folding chair with sketchbooks, ink, paper, colours, brushes, pens and all the associated paraphernalia close to hand. I started doing graphic work on my Mac Book Pro, using Photoshop and the less sophisticated Pixelmator, around 2009. In 2018 I tried out the paint program ArtRage - and the illustrative work shown here is now done using that program - on Mac Book, and a Wacom Intuos tablet & stylus. Outdoor scenes are documented by high quality reference photographs. No more dodging weather and enduring traffic fumes - except to get to the pub (when it's open)!
I've recently pensioned off my old iPad for a new, powerful model and an Apple pencil, and am getting to grips with another clever painting program called ProCreate. I hope to add some work from this program at a later date...
I've recently pensioned off my old iPad for a new, powerful model and an Apple pencil, and am getting to grips with another clever painting program called ProCreate. I hope to add some work from this program at a later date...
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