Last night I caught the last 1/2 hour of the BBC television show "Imagine" featuring the artist David Hockney and An excerpt from the bbc website follows:
"David Hockney wakes up just before the dawn, takes his phone and from his bed starts to draw the cut flowers by his window, using the 'Brushes' app. With his thumb brushing the screen he works on the same scale you can see in front of you. It's a medium he started using tentatively five months ago but in just the last seven weeks he's made over 200 of these images. He likes the medium for its directness and speed, the ability to draw and paint at the same time, and the instant delivery.
There's no reproduction or printing involved, but Hockney is exploiting the layering techniques he's developed from print-making and watercolour. There is a beauty, freshness and immediacy of touch to these images. He likes the fact he's giving them away, saying "my real vanity is the vanity of artists, I like my work to be seen." Up to now, only his friends have seen them. "
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