iPadPortraits.com :: by David Newman

iPad Portrait of Daniel Marker

2011-12-28T13:01:00.001-08:00

iPad Portrait of Daniel Marker, a photo by DNSF David Newman on Flickr.

Painted from life last night.

Thank you, Daniel.

Android Portrait of Aditi Chadha

2011-12-11T18:44:00.001-08:00

Android Portrait of Aditi Chadha, a photo by DNSF David Newman on Flickr.

Than you, Aditi.

Ken Colvin, Liberator: iPad Portrait

2011-12-08T22:49:00.001-08:00

Ken Colvin, Liberator: iPad Portrait, a photo by DNSF David Newman on Flickr.

This afternoon I painted an iPad portrait of Ken Colvin, liberator of 6 concentration & labor camps during 4 months in 1944.

Thank you, Ken.

2011-11-07T13:55:00.000-08:00

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Silicon Valley Artist-in-Residence David Newman’s Solo Exhibition Brings Intimate Portraits of Innovators to New Work City in NYC

Digital Portrait Exhibition Curated Via Twitter Crowdsourcing

New York, NY - November 8, 2011 - New Work City, the high tech community coworking center in Manhattan, is now presenting David Newman’s second solo show of iPad Portraits of Innovators.

Newman paints his portraits from life at tech events at New Work City and in Silicon Valley as his subjects focus on their work. Unlike other digital artworks, Newman’s portraits are not derived from photos, scanned, or generated by apps simulating traditional methods.

Selected from more than one hundred portraits painted by Newman over the last year and a half, curation of this exhibition was crowdsourced via Twitter by New Work City co-founder Tony Bacigalupo. Responding to his tweet, NWC community members selected works to appear in the show.

Portraits in the exhibition:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dnsf/sets/72157627924962996/detail

Photo of the installation:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/peteblac/6316297995

About David Newman
In 2006, Newman began a series of ink-on-paper portraits inspired by Silicon Valley innovators. Since the iPad was released in 2010, he has been using the iPad to paint portraits from life. Newman’s portrait of Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak anchors the exhibition that also includes portraits of members of the NWC Community.

As Artist-in-Residence of Silicon Valley, Newman has painted traditional and digital portraits of entrepreneurs and developers at Google, LeWeb in Paris, Microsoft, NASA, PayPal, Stanford University, Twitter, Yahoo, and other high-tech venues since 2006.

About New Work City
New Work City, on Broadway at Canal Street, is a coworking space and center for independents. Run by Tony Bacigalupo and Peter Chislett as a community first and a business second, New Work City is the collective result of the participation of countless people who believe in its mission and subscribe to its values.

The show is open by appointment at: New Work City, 412 Broadway, Floor 2, New York NY 10013.

Contact:

David Newman, Artist
415/437-0112
email: portraits (at) dnsf (d0t) com
http://iPadPortraits.com
http://www.facebook.com/iPadPortraits
http://twitter.com/dnsf

New Work City
Tony Bacigalupo
212/226-1585
email: info (at) nwc dot co
http://www.facebook.com/newworkcity
http://nwc.co/
http://twitter.com/nwc

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iPad Portrait of Jacob Blacksberg Painted from Life at Home

2011-11-07T13:49:00.001-08:00

iPad Portrait of Jacob Blacksberg Painted from Life at Home, a photo by DNSF David Newman on Flickr.

Thank you, Jacob.

Today at Rochester Institute of Technology, NY: iPad Portraits from life: Demonstration & Discussion

2011-11-02T21:23:00.001-07:00

Today at Rochester Institute of Technology, NY: iPad Portraits from life: Demonstration & Discussion, a photo by DNSF David Newman on Flickr.

Art Department: 2:00 pm.

2011-10-05T17:20:00.001-07:00

Thank you, Steve.

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First-ever Google Hangout Transcontinental iPad Portrait: Jules Minsky, 29 Years After My First Portrait Of Jules Painted In 1982 on a Via Video System One.

2011-10-03T16:48:00.001-07:00

First-ever Google Hangout Transcontinental iPad Portrait: Jules Minsky, 29 Years After My First Portrait Of Jules Painted In 1982 on a Via Video System One., a photo by DNSF David Newman on Flickr.

Painted from life in natural light in Woodstock, NY, from my studio in Sam Francisco.

Thank you, Jules and Eleanor.

2011-10-01T10:25:00.000-07:00

This feature in the September 2011 issue of Gentry Magazine was sent to me by my friend Raji. Photo by my friend Peter Blacksberg as I painted Neha Tiwari at Carol Tran's ChicMeetsGeek event in 2010. Thank you Raji, Peter, Carol, Gentry Magazine and, of course, Woz and Janet.

First Android Portrait: Joy Robbins of 4.0 Schools, New Orleans, at Mega Startup Weekend Today - Microsoft Mountain View

2011-09-11T00:43:00.001-07:00

First Android Portrait: Joy Robbins of 4.0 Schools, New Orleans, at Mega Startup Weekend Today - Microsoft Mountain View, a photo by DNSF David Newman on Flickr.

This blog, iPadPortraits.com, is the temporary host of my new Android portrait series.

Thank you, Joy, Franck and Ahmed; and Startup Weekend, and our host, Microsoft.

2011-09-01T12:28:00.000-07:00

Skype made it possible for me to paint an iPad portrait of my friend Karin in Germany during a transatlantic teleconference from my home studio in San Francisco recently.

This morning, the Skype Play blog tells the story.

http://blogs.skype.com/play/2011/08/digital-artist-uses-skype-for.html

Thank you, Paul Vachier.

2011-08-25T22:45:00.000-07:00

Thank you, Susanna.

And thank you, SuperHappyDevHouse, and thanks to Google for hosting the event.

2011-08-23T10:48:00.000-07:00

In this talk entitled The Future of Painting, Rhythm & Hues artist Nick Pugh presents the emerging trend of painting from life with computers and iPads in this TEDxSoCal Event.

In this talk Pugh exposes the novel art form – Digital Plein Air – as a vital new style where artists take technology out into the field and capture the world around them in beautiful digital paintings. The talk provides historical context for this new movement, show the state of the art today and provide a vision for how this style might evolve in the future.

The talk features the work of several artists using this technology, including David Hockney, Craig Mullins, David Newman, Shaddy Safadi, Alison Yerxa and Danny Gardner, amongst many others.

2011-08-22T12:50:00.000-07:00

Video animation of the creation of my iPad Portrait of YJ Lee, Electronic Arts artist, at SuperHappyDevHouse45 at Google HQ, July 2011.

2011-08-21T18:11:00.000-07:00

Animation of the process of painting this transatlantic iPad portrait of Karin via Skype.

2011-08-17T23:25:00.001-07:00

First-ever TransAtlantic iPad Portrait from San Francisco via Skype: Karin mit Kopfhörer, Lehrerin, Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland: Tonight/Heute Morgen - August 17-18, 2011, a photo by DNSF David Newman on Flickr.

Danke schön, Karin.

2011-08-06T23:18:00.000-07:00

iPad-Künstler David Newman in Mobile-Next.de

Rück rüber, Picasso, die Nerds kommen! Raffinierte Mal-Apps für iPad und iPhone machen Laien zu van Goghs. Mobile Next stellt bekannte Künstler und die besten Tools vor.

Es beginnt mit einem WOZ. Dreimal untereinander: WOZ, WOZ, WOZ. Sofort verschwinden die Buchstaben unter einem graublauen Gekritzel, gefolgt von einer orangefarbenen Linie, die ein Rechteck wird. Darin ein weißer Punkt, dann ein roter Fleck. David Newman malt auf seinem iPad. Das Liniengewirr in Graublau verdichtet sich zum Hintergrund, das Rechteck verwandelt sich in einen Laptop, der weiße Punkt wird zum Apfel-Logo. Und der weinrote Fleck? Der entpuppt sich als Steve Wozniak, „The Woz“, der Mitbegründer von Apple.

In late May 2011, I was contacted by Silvia Flier, editor of the new print and online magazine Mobile-Next. Mobile-Next is a new magazine dealing with mobile technologies and lifestyles - like Wired meets Monocle. It is distributed in Germany only, with some issues reaching subscribers in Austria and Switzerland. Circulation: 50,000.

This 4-page article, written in German, includes a feature about my DNSF iPad Portraits as a result of Silvia's e-mail interview with me.

Here is an excerpt, adapted from the interview text as well as Google Translate.

"The artists of high tech are the innovative software engineers, the entrepreneurs, the user experience designers, and the people who support them in their efforts. My goal is to honor their creativity and innovation from a fine art point of view. I hope to make art about these artists and their creations in a respectful way. I am portraying these artists in their environments, surrounded by their tools, using today’s hardware, software and communications technologies. In ten years, when the iPad will have become an ancient relic, and today’s high tech tools and toys will have all been recycled, hopefully the creativity and inspiration of today’s Silicon Valley will be remembered in my portraits in ways that cannot be captured with photography."

He uses the iPad for this mission, painting by hand. How could he capture the zeitgeist better than with the product that exactly characterizes the zeitgeist like no other? There are very practical reasons:

"With the iPad, I saw the perfect marriage of paper’s lightweight portability and always-on nature together with the power of computer graphics, which lets me paint with light, save multiple versions, share online, and use the undo feature occasionally. It is a natural medium for me as an artist."

2011-07-31T14:28:00.000-07:00

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dnsf/5995053035

iPad Portrait of Richard Bottoms, Southern Africa Technology Evangelist, at iOSDevCamp at PayPal HQ Today

2011-07-16T17:39:00.001-07:00

iPad Portrait of Richard Bottoms, Southern Africa Technology Evangelist, at iOSDevCamp at PayPal HQ Today, a photo by DNSF David Newman on Flickr.

Thank you, Richard.

2011-07-12T21:20:00.000-07:00

Solo Show of David Newman’s
iPad Portraits of Innovators

at iOSDevCamp at PayPal HQ July 15-17

I will have my fourth one-person exhibition this weekend showing color Giclée prints from my iPad portraits series at iOSDevCamp 2011 at PayPal HQ in San Jose, California.

As Artist-in-Residence of this year's iOSDevCamp, I will paint portraits of attendees from life with my iPad using Autodesk’s Sketchbook Pro application.

The show is open to registered attendees of the $50 conference starting Friday July 15th through the weekend.

After studying with great professors such as Wayne Thiebaud, Manuel Neri, Roland Peterson, Cornelia Schulz, David Gilhooly and John Fitz Gibbon at the legendary UC Davis art department and graduating from UC Berkeley with a BFA, I have been painting portraits from life since the 1970’s when I worked as a newspaper courtroom artist. I painted my first computer graphics paintings in 1982, and began painting with the Mac on the first day it became available in 1984.

In 2006, I began a series of ink-on-paper portraits inspired by Silicon Valley innovators. Since the iPad came out in April 2010, I’ve been using the iPad exclusively to paint portraits from life.

For more information:

David Newman
415-437-0112
This Blog: http://iPadPortraits.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/iPadPortraits
Twitter: @dnsf

Silicon Valley Artist-in-Residence:
   iOSDevCamp, PayPal HQ 2010, 2011
   SuperHappyDevHouse 45, Google HQ, 2011
   Bay Area Startup Weekend, PariSoma, San Francisco, 2011
   Le Camping, La Bourse, Palais Brongniart, Paris France, 2011
   Google Technology User Group Campout, Google HQ, 2010
   Founder Labs, True Ventures, San Francisco, 2010
   Bay Area Startup Weekend Mobile, Kicklabs, San Francisco, 2010
   NYC Startup Weekend, New Work City, New York City (Continuing Exhibition) 2010
   Bay Area Startup Weekend Education, Pier 38, San Francisco, 2010

iPad Portrait of YJ Lee, Artist, Electronic Arts, at SuperHappyDevHouse at Google Tonight

2011-07-09T23:30:00.001-07:00

iPad Portrait of YJ Lee, Artist, Electronic Arts, at SuperHappyDevHouse at Google Tonight, a photo by DNSF David Newman on Flickr.

Thank you, YJ

iPad Portrait of Susanna Berggren, Founder of Studentity, Today at SuperHappyDevHouse 45 at Google

2011-07-09T18:55:00.001-07:00

iPad Portrait of Susanna Berggren, Founder of Studentity, Today at SuperHappyDevHouse 45 at Google, a photo by DNSF David Newman on Flickr.

Thank you, Susanna.

2011-07-08T09:05:00.000-07:00

I'm looking forward to painting iPad portraits of people attending SHDH 45 at Google on Saturday, July 9 2011.

http://superhappydevhouse.org/w/page/41707165/SuperHappyDevHouse45

Before the iPad: Ink-on-paper portraits painted at Google at OpenSocial Weekend Apps in February 2009: http://bit.ly/nMuVM4

iPad Portrait of Bill Atkinson at Work on his iPad App Photocard Today

2011-06-27T21:37:00.001-07:00

iPad Portrait of Bill Atkinson at Work on his iPad App Photocard Today, a photo by DNSF David Newman on Flickr.

Painted from life today.

Thank you, Bill.

iPad Portrait of Janet Wozniak, Painted from Life Today

2011-05-27T23:33:00.001-07:00

iPad Portrait of Janet Wozniak, Painted from Life Today, a photo by DNSF David Newman on Flickr.

Thank you, Janet.