Vajrasattva variations

Created using apps on my iPad.

Shoes with skulls and roses

One of my favourites from last year's shoe series.

9 Seahorses

Fiery seahorses for a rainy afternoon

Fiery Seahorse

Latest of my seahorse sketches, this one is a digital drawing done with the XP Brushes App on the iPad

A New Year Flower Mandala Dance

More digital drawing - planned as a dance the footprints turned into a spiral as I worked on the piece.

Rainbow slippers and fire birds

Flight of the Swan

A tiny sketch from my sketchbook

Lavender

Drawn from observation using a range of iPad apps to explore the fragrant brittleness  of lavender in a vase.

Vajrayogini

Here is a recent mixed media sketch of Vajrayogini - wax, gouache and water soluble crayon on water colour paper.

Medicine Buddha/Bhaisajyaguru

This is a digitally made image trying out the potential of layers in the Brushes app. The starting point was a photo of a line drawing done on paper followed by various digital manipulations using graphics apps.  I am enjoying experimenting with the technologies which are coming on line for the iPad.

Avalokitesvara Variations

Here are a set of variations using the traditional iconography for the four armed form of Avalokitesvara.  He holds the wish fulfilling jewel or cintamani, a mala or rosary and a lotus.   The first picture is a gouache commission painted in 1998 

(Go to  http://buddhist-pics.com/commissions.php to see more commissioned work).

The other images were created on my iPad using a photograph of the gouache as a starting point. The apps I used were Brushes and Waterlogue. I am really enjoying exploring the possibilities of this touchsreen technology.

Paeonies

A vase of paeonies - is this cheating? To take my photograph and turn it into this using tcouchscreen technology and an app? Or is it the future beckoning?