Phone Drawing. 24/06/12. I don't remember drawing this or why he was dressed as a cockroach.

touch screen pen on iPhone

Phone Drawing. 23/06/12. Benjamin Louche hosting the Double R Club- a David Lynch themed night.

touch screen pen on iPhone

Phone Drawing. 20/06/12. Making music in Tim's studio.

touch screen pen on iPhone

Phone Drawing. 18/06/12. First half of breakfast.

touch screen pen on iPhone

Phone Drawing. 16/06/12. Mum fixing my jacket.

touch screen pen on iPhone

Phone Drawing. 12/06/12. Exquisite Roadkill requested by Lucie Latex.

touch screen pen on iPhone

Phone Drawing. 11/06/12. The Lift.

touch screen pen on iPhone

Phone Drawing. 09/06/12. Comedian on late night TV.

touch screen pen on iPhone

Phone Drawing. 08/06/12. Flower drawn at home. Sandwich on the airplane.

touch screen pen on iPhone

Phone Drawing. 06/06/12. Tom Ogier who works at The Society Club.

touch screen pen on iPhone

Phone Drawing. 03/06/12. Tools of my trade

touch screen pen on iPhone

Phone Drawing. 02/06/12. Backstage.

touch screen pen on iPhone

Phone Drawing. 01/06/12. Rule of Thumb.

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Phone Drawing. 31/05/12. Strawberries

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Phone Drawing. 30/05/12. Be careful what you wish for.

touch screen pen on iPhone.

Phone Drawing. 29/05/12. Facing death in Bali

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Phone Drawing. 28/05/12. Fish car crash

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Phone Drawing. 27/05/12. Erotic Award

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Phone Drawing. 23/05/12 Geneviève d'Urfé stripped bare of clothes, jewellery and hair.

touch screen pen on iPhone

Phone Drawing. 22/05/12  Kamil (The Unicorn) taking photographs

touch screen pen on iPhone

Phone Drawing. 21/05/12 The Old Pretender by Antonio David (edited)

touch screen pen on iPhone

Phone Drawing. 19/05/12 Who knows?

touch screen pen on iPhone

Phone Drawing. 18/05/12 'Scissorfish' for Jiz Lee

touch screen pen on iPhone

Phone Drawing. 17/05/12 Adam Gainsborough

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Phone Drawing. 16/05/12 Eddie From Memory.

touch screen pen on iPhone

Phone Drawing. 13/05/12 The Brazier

touch screen pen on iPhone

Phone Drawing. 12/05/12 Ted.

touch screen pen on iPhone

Phone Drawing. 10/05/12  Hen.

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Phone Drawing. 09/05/12 Radiography 1973.

touch screen pen on iPhone

Phone Drawing. 08/05/12 Boots off.

touch screen pen on iPhone

Phone Drawing. 07/05/12 Carley's Party

touch screen pen on iPhone

Phone Drawing. 06/05/12 New in Town

touch screen pen on iPhone

Phone Drawing. 05/05/12  'I will clown you'

touch screen pen on iPhone

Phone Drawing. 04/05/12 Flying Insect

touch screen pen on iPhone

Phone Drawing. 03/05/12 U47 from the 50's

touch screen pen on iPhone

Phone Drawing. 02/05/12 Observation.

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Phone Drawing. 01/05/12 Abigail O'Neill

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Phone Drawing. 30/04/12 Mirror mirror

touch screen pen on iPhone

30th April 2012

Daily Drawings on my iPhone.

I've come to this a little late but I am like this with most technologies- I circumnavigate them with an air of scepticism before

giving in and getting obsessed. Hockney describes drawing on his iPhone as "a wonderful fluid medium". Everything about

the meduim is fluid: it's fluid in the making of the drawings and fluid in showing people the results.

I tour constantly as The Correspondents. The routine of getting from A to B, checking in, waiting at the hotel, soundchecking,

waiting in the hotel, eating, waiting backstage, performing, cooling down (eating again), packing up, (occasionally drinking)

and returning to the hotel provides a lot of dead time. I started taking sketching stuff on tour to do the porn drawings for the

RubiCANE book and show and found I got loads down but I still needed a sketch pad, a set of pencils, rubbers, rulers, a

stanley knife and a flat surface. I realised this process can be far simpler with the use of an iPhone and a touch screen pen

with the help of an App called Brushes. Five minutes waiting for a DJ table to be setup can be a doodle of a sound engineer,

a five hour flight can be a in depth study of the person sleeping to my left.  

I am going to try and do at least one drawing everyday and upload it onto my IanBRUCE_RubiCANE facebook page and my

Twitter (the links to both are below). If you would like to receive an email with a month's worth of drawings in a PDF booklet

then send an email to ian@ianbruce.net.

31st May 2011

I'm much indebted to Nicolas Lavrov who made two very smart websites for me in exchange for a painting entitled

Scaramouche Jones. 

I still get very excited about the cursor magnifying glass!

This exchange originally came about a couple of years back through ArtBarter; an exhibition where the public could

propose anything except money to acquire a piece of art.  The artists on show included the likes of Tracey Emin and

Gavin Turk but all the artworks were exhibited anonymously which created an exciting equal playing field.  I think Emin

settled for French lessons.  I could have gone for a ride on a barge with cake or an evening of passion! But I'm glad

I settled with the website from the very talented Mr Lavrov.

ArtBarter is now conducting large scale exchanges across the world, check them out here... www.artbarter.co.uk

And on the bottom right hand corner of this page you'll find a little link to Mr Lavrov.

This is the latest exchange with the very talented artist, craftsman, archaeologist and historian Tom Crowley.

I painted a portrait of him that he gave to his parents and he made me a lamp constructed of thin, near translucent, balsa wood.

The theme that I presented to Tom was the contemporary Maenad.  The end result is a four armed hindu style punkette with

glowing genitals!

A very satisfactory exchange.