Galerie Moutarde

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My drawing of Katy demonstrating Chapter 7 of our new book The Joy of Drawing. Register to attend our online book launch Sunday Nov 22 at 11 am PST. https://mobileartacademy.com/joyofdrawing #thejoyofdrawing #thejoyofdrawibgbook #joyofdrawibgbook #learntodraw #joyofdrawing #dailydrawing #dailydrawings https://www.instagram.com/p/CHYRMy3FVIB/?igshid=k6rffeqwk5yt

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Bit of a change of pace. Drawing done on my walk along the marina adding in my granddaughter flying high. #sketching #inkdrawing #sanfrancisco (at San Francisco, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CD5HC8aF0d7/?igshid=fxhm9cs9cpmh

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Oil on board. Tree trunk at Martis. Theres life in Death. Oil on board 18” square #martiscamp #tree #oilpainting #pleinairpainting https://www.instagram.com/p/CDZj8hvFUE3/?igshid=1w73g7epmisy5

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Plein air oil painting @martiscamp 16x20. Need more canvases. Ordered from Blick but takes a while. Happy 4th everyone. #martiscamp #pleinairpainting #oilpainting https://www.instagram.com/p/CCPVYlsFGG9/?igshid=dzjvqo3obt7

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Finally got in a bit of plain air outside behind house. So fun. Just a start. #pleinairpainting #oilpainting #pacificartleague #martiscamp (at Martis Camp) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBoQYGVlcMv/?igshid=y4hbu7esohbk

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IPAD painting done on boat on Lake Tahoe yesterday. Such a gorgeous day and view #ipadpro #tahoe #mdacsummit #pacificartleague #ipadart #ipadprocreate #procreate (at Lake Tahoe) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBG-t1DlD15/?igshid=1gqcnhfd4lmwf

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Thanks for a lovely birthday. These flowers from Susan,Shari and Kristie matched one of my recent oil paintings so well! #thankful #flowers #pacificartleague #oilpainting https://www.instagram.com/p/CAGd-3ilKmh/?igshid=1aaryher23tao

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More lovely flowers from my lovely neighbor. Oil on canvas board #oilpainting #flowers #covidart #isolationart #pacificartleague (at Russian Hill, San Francisco) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_vN7_ylTgp/?igshid=m34p0fvizb31

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House on Vallejo. Oil on canvas 20x24. #russianhill #artinisolation #oilpainting #covidartmuseum #covidart https://www.instagram.com/p/B_gw0g5FtlI/?igshid=10jpz2j3pn5sx

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Caroline Mustard, Google Bikes, 2017, Art Ventures Gallery

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Live drawing done today outside performing arts center in mountain view. #procreate #ipadpro #mountainview #livedrawing (at Mountain View A la Carte & Art Festival)

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Springtime Dream. iPad Pro with Procreate.Latest edition to my collection at https://caroline-mustard.squarespace.com

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Led fun class today ipad painting. @mobilearted #ipaded #procreate

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Does iPhone sketching qualify as digital art stalking?

I don't think so.  Artists have been secretly sketching people forever.  It's just that using an iPhone is particularly invisible as it looks like you are just checking your emails or playing a video game or or or.

I love drawing people and have ample opportunity when I travel the Caltrain route from Mountain View to the City of San Francisco.  Trains are frequently late in Silicon Valley, so I get to draw on the station too - all the hunched up figures checking their devices.  Or how about the coffee shop where I spied this lady on the next table and had to sketch her (above.

Sketching for me is warm up time and also where I get my ideas and inspiration.  Sometimes they work, often not.  No worries.  Sometimes if I like the sketch Ill show the subject and text it to them. Seems only fair. 

Favorite apps for people sketching? Well Paper 53 is always a huge favorite for me, particularly the roller tool which is like a vector tool (but not).  But I also love Art Rage using the pencil for sketching purposes as above.  Then there is Procreate, bit harder to use on the fly as I tend to paint with it using layers, so it's more of a challenge. But I've been happy with the results. 

I actually met one of our Mobile Art Academy associates, John Hayes while while both of us were sketching on the train. John is a very talented character designer for a big gaming company in San Mateo, and an android tablet user, and you will soon see some classes from him on his favorite app Infinite Painter.

Anyway, these are just some thoughts on the joy of using your iPhone to sketch people without them spotting you!                             

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My passion for iPad and iPhone Art

People often ask me, "Don't you miss the feeling of 'real paint' on your hands?"

After a lifetime of getting filthy dirty with paint, to the point of almost physically poisoning myself when doing advanced faux painting and scenic painting in Hollywood 10 years ago, my answer is unreservedly NO!  Digital art is in my veins just as deeply as oil, charcoal or goache. And guess what, I can do it all with my iPad or iPhone and the amazing apps available.

I guess I've always been a rebel when it comes to matters of Fine Art. From the outset, when graduating college in the late 60s. I abhorred the path ahead of me of Bond Street galleries in London where I grew up. I hugely admired artists who had broken out of that drudgery like Andy Warhol and David Hockney, two greats of that time period. They both experimented with all types of media - Warhol with his polaroid, and most recently Hockney with his iPhone and then iPad.

Why do I love the iPad and iPhone?  Well, try going outdoors and plein air painting with oils.  You need quite a set up - not just the paints and materials, but how about the easel and chair and and and....don't forget the hat!  Then you have to find somewhere you can stand (or sit) and suffer people coming around you gawking (not their fault).

Not so me.  I travel light with my iPhone plus and my apps. I can stand middle of the pavement when something catches my eye and paint it using Art Set and do a fast color sketch. Or I can sit in the train and sketch the people I see and no one even knows I am doing it.  

As a painter I work from outside in. I am not a expressionist or fantasy painter, although I admire them hugely. My inspiration starts with something I see, and not until I have put it onto paper or onto a screen does it become something uniquely mine, in its own universe. So the iPad and iPhone are vital to me and have made it possible for me to capture life as it passes me by.

So for anyone who loves to look, who loves to draw and  paint what they see, be it in the kitchen, their self portrait, the scene outside the window or on the daily walk they take with their dog, I invite you to adopt your iPhone as your portable sketchbook and canvas.  And get a new lease on life!

Please enjoy my iPhone work herein included.

Color sketches done on walks around Sylvan Park, in Mountain View, C California, Jan and Feb 2017, using iPhone with Art Set. Follow @iPadartist04 on Twitter to see my sketches as I do them.

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Why I Love Commuting with my iPhone Art Apps

Here's another BIG REASON I love my iPhone - it's my favorite sketchbook when I travel up and down Silicon Valley from San Francisco to San Jose and all points in between. And best of all, no one knows I'm sketching them - they just think I'm lost in the latest inane Facebook posts! Thanks to the wonders of digital art on your iPhone!

I'm afraid I'm a secret people sketcher. Hate being so obvious about it that it attracts attention and makes people nervous. With my iPhone and one or two apps that are great for sketching, I am all set for a terrific journey that passes in the blink of an eye.

My favorite is Paper 53, and specifically the roller tool that creates these interesting shapes, perfect for fast sketching. But others are equally good - it's just that this is the app I am most familiar with.

But I've also done lots with Procreate. You can see these to the right. Top are sketches with Paper and below sketches with Procreate. 

It takes a bit of work to get things going, but I'm super addicted to painting what I see, and love capturing different positions of people, both on the train and at the station. 

Sometimes I take photos for later development into full blown Caltrain paintings which you can see on my website under RAILWAYS.  But that's different than just being there and sketching away whenever you feel the urge.  Some are so unfinished I'd never share them, but some work out pretty well and I post them.  So I'm sharing them with you here.

I'm planning to do a free class on this for our mobileart.how online iPad art teaching website, so watch for it.  Or follow Mobile Art Academy on Facebook so you know when to expect the class.  

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My obsession with iPhone sketching in stealth mode

I take my dog Teddy for a walk everyday and I always take my iPhone. It has radically changed mt artwork as I am literally drawing everyday, which for me is like doing scales as an opera singer to warm up.

And I am obsessed with it.  Right now I'm into just straight drawing with ArtSet. I've been doing color sketches for a while and then I began drawing yesterday and I love it.  I got inspired when was shown one of Hockneys charcoal sketches - I saw them at his big exhibition at the DeYoung in SF.  Hockney inspires me because of his amazing work ethic. He paints and draws all the time. 

Well, thank god, I gave up smoking a while back (he's a chain smoker which is scary, but he seems to be doing okay).  But I like to follow his lead in LOOKING and drawing what I see. For me it's the entrance point to doing good work.

It is kind of funny - when I see something I stop and my dog Teddy seems to be fine while I stand there and draw.  No one seems to notice me much - they probably think I'm writing an email or looking at the latest Facebook post or whatever.  Its like being in stealth mode.

Im shortly going to do a free online workshop on it at our mobileart.how website, and follow it with a series of lessons on using Art Set and Paper 53, my two favorite apps for iPhone sketching. I can't really deal with layers on the run.  I'm sure there are other good sketching apps, but these seem to do the trick for me right now.