Art: Digitally Painting Casa Grande

I once lived in Big Bend National Park (Dec 1978 - Oct 1981) and have climbed Casa Grande a half dozen times. I can neither confirm nor deny that I camped overnight on its rugged summit (some say) a few times. Camping illegally is affectionately called “bandit camping” by lawless practitioners, but that’s just hearsay.

Anyway, the ease with which one can actually create a satisfying and believable impressionistic landscape using free software, downloaded from the internet is incredible! For a few additional bucks (after the initial download) you can buy your way up into much more refined tools and media types. The possibilities are endless.

I do all of this on an iPad. What I like about this application is it tracks your ‘paint strokes’ and when you are finished, you can export (as I did) this short video, that simply ‘plays back’ your artistic journey from start to finish. Please let me know what you think. Happy Friday everyone! ~dmw