

Then I opened the App and clicked the big PLUS sign to start a new project. I started with cropping each image down to include only the part I wanted to work with. Once I was well ensconced in my flying tin can I pulled out my iPad.

I did wait until people were out of the room before getting down on hands and knees to photograph the beautiful things. I have a fascination bordering on obsession with ammonite fossils – so when I discovered a very large rock embedded with a number of exposed polished fossils under my hostesses coffee table I had a bit of a hard time controlling myself. I am using Adobe Illustrator Draw on my iPad with an Apple Pencil (responsive stylus) but the free app is available on android tablets as well. Yesterday between Los Angeles and Raleigh I sketched out several Celtic knots, listened to a great audiobook, and worked on a couple of new drawings that could be used for thermofax screen printing.

You might think there is nothing worse than being stuck in the middle seat of a packed airplane on a long light, but I look at it as an opportunity to play.
