Learning through curiosity and play

Digital painting experiments with Adobe Fresco

Feb 11, 2025

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Queen sized bed with blue sheets and a grey padded headboard. An iPad stand arches over the bed so that someone who is lying in the bed can work on the iPad suspended overhead.

When I signed on to do the illustrations for The Perfect Ride back in 2023, this was definitely not the painting setup that I envisioned I’d be using.

Still, as strange as it might sound, discovering a new way of working has been both challenging and exciting. In adapting to working on my back, I have freed myself of one of the major constraints of my di…

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