I tried to find a theme or guiding

question. At first I had “how

French culture evolved over
time?” Then it evolved into “ how
French culture was influenced by
major events/artists” and the
final one is “how art was
influenced by French culture/
French major events” Then I
gathered important artists from
different time periods to really
see the impact culture had on
them. There are also a couple
marking events on fig.1. I
researched many artists that are
in one way or another related to
France. Some of them are french,
others lived a long time in France.
Then after brainstorming different
artists, I chose 8 of them. I might
Fig. 2
need more because I am planning
on creating one artwork per artist
and since I chose HL, I could use
2 or 3 more. I chose to start with
the artist closer to ‘my time’ and
then go back in time. The first
one is David Hockney. His last
work was paintings of his house
and trees in Normandy on iPad.
So that is the first medium I
chose. We had a lot of issues
with the app ProCreate which is
the one I wanted to draw with. So
while I was waiting for it to get
Fig. 1 set up, I planned the next couple
projects and researched the

Planning -
artists I wanted to be inspired by.
Fig.2 is the sketch for my second
project which I inspired by Alvaro
Guillot. Fig. 3
brainstorming, future compositions…
 Hockney meant for
his artwork to soothe
Fig. 7
people in these
difficult times during
COVID. Calming
anxiety was the main
purpose so he chose
to paint his
environment and the
trees around him. His
intentions inspired
me to choose a
Fig. 1 Fig. 2 place where I grew
up and is a part of
me. It represents
Fig. 3 happiness to me and
hopefully to others
too. I asked my
grandma in France
to take a picture of
this place on the
afternoon. It looks
better because the
sun is shedding a
warmer light on the
tree. As I wrote on
fig. 7, Hockney used

Fig. 4 some type of cubism

and I wanted to
reproduce his style
to better understand
it. I also decided to
use the same
medium as Hockney
which is the iPad.
The picture that I
chose has been
taken from a
different angle than
what I had previously
sketched on fig. 7
but I don’t really
Fig.5 Fig. 6 mind, it ended up
just as interesting to
explore and paint.
Fig. 1 to 5 are the pictures my grandma sent me giving me multiple options in

Planning - choosing
terms of angle and composition. Fig.1 has a really interesting composition
because nothing big is right in the middle but there was too much details to
do something as simple as Hockney did. I liked he angle of fig.2 but the tree
looked weird. Fig.3 is too basic, the composition is not that original as is fig.
4. The winner was fig.5 because I like how the tree is slightly off to the left and

composition
the leaves on the foreground which is actually on the top making the
composition more original.
 David Hockney is 83 years old
and I was very surprised when
I read that he used iPad tools
regularly in his artworks,
especially recently. Figure 1, 2
and 3 were made on his iPad
when he was stuck in
Fig. 1 Normandy, France during the
quarantine because of the
epidemic. Back then, he felt
like the world needed his art to
soothe the anxiety triggered by
the virus. So he started
drawing nature around him.
Fig. 4 And I gotta say, his works do
relax me. We may think that he
I selected a couple pieces that I liked from was using a restricted palette
Fig. 2 the set of works he made in Normandy. I because we see the same
bright green in most of his
really noticed and tried to remember the digital pieces but that might
way he used the colors and how he just be because the grass
reflects light. I wanted my piece to look as around him is the same. If we
close as possible to the way he would look up close on his work, we
can see all of the individual
draw on the iPad. So what I noticed is that strokes. But when we step
his colors are all very happy and light, it back, all those strokes blend
Fig. 3 makes me think of cartoon drawings; together. This technique made
me think of oil paint, how it’s
always cheerful. better to not blend too much
and then step back to blend

ARTIST RESEARCH - DAVID HOCKNEY

the strokes.
I had already started drawing quite a lot when I
decided to explore the ProCreate tools.
I duplicated the drawing
I already had multiple Then I started to play
times to that I would around and look for
not have to go reset the interesting tools or
change if I wanted to options.
keep working on it.
On figure 2, I
used
multiple
options to
I discovered that I modify one
could fold the of the
drawing. I was version I had
amazed and I duplicated.
made something
that resembles a
dumpling.
Fig. 1
I used the “sound” tool on the tree, and the
crystal one on the grass. I think there was also Fig. 2
a blurry one.

Experimenting - iPad tools

Fig. 1
Process -
groping

The first thing I did, which I

now realize was a waste of
time, was to draw a black
outline of the picture I was Fig. 3
tracing. I also immediately
made multiple layers which I
labeled.

Fig. 2

Fig. 4
 Process -
coloring

Fig. 1 Fig. 3

Fig. 2
 Fig. 1 Fig. 2

Process - tree / cabana

Fig. 3 Fig. 4 Fig.5 Fig. 6 Fig. 7

Process -
Fig. 3

details

Fig. 2

Fig. 1
 Reflection
I am satisfied with the final product
even though I think that the leaves
should be fuller . Unfortunately I ran
out of time. The color palette was
respected and we can clearly sense
that this work was inspired by
Hockney. The overall emotion that this
piece emits feels like a chunk of
Eden’s Garden. Peaceful and joyful
with its bright colors, there is a
relaxing sentiment that makes it
gloom.

Fig. 1