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Cindy Bennett - portfolio covering her progress from pencil to pixels

I've been drawing and painting and sculpting as long as I can remember. Often, I wished I could loan my eyes to someone to let them see the beauty.

These are samples from my current series iPhone>iPad.

When I was in elementary school I would walk down the street to Dolly Caine's house every Saturday. She would play beautiful music & provide paint, chalk, paper, clay, papier mache and we would spend 2-4 hours blissfully creating whatever was in our imaginations. Roger Gregg, my high school art teacher, was a puppet master as well as an artist furthered my adventurous art spirit, igniting a desire to see my art move. Eventually, I went to the animation program at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario. After the first year of classical animation I had to choose to learn computers or stay with paper. I chose the computers.

Finger Painting on the iPhone>iPad perfect for "plein aire" (painting on site)

I used to use a paper sketchbook & 6 coloured pencils to layout my art. Then, I'd bring my laptop with tablet & stylus. Now I can just sketch the basic idea on my phone, sometimes taking a photo first. Working it out at such a low resolution helps me simplify my vision. I transfer this painting to my iPad for refining. Or i just paint on my iPad.

Digital Painting is the Artist's perfect medium!

Once you create your document, there are so many ways to reproduce it! You can print to all kinds of paper, canvas or translucency. They can be warped for customized 3D objects such as the cups with inserts for sale in Starbucks.

iPhone>iPad Gallery Prince Edward County

How I began & Portfolios before 2010(This is the third remake of my website)

from Pencil to Digital 1998 . . . i only knew i wanted to paint on the computer . . .

I decided to make art on the computer in 1998.

The vision is to create art that can be handed down through generations - a valuable family heirloom. Being digital, not only can it hang in a frame and is easily adaptable to note cards and other print projects but is also ready to use on a web page or email.
A friend once said:
"Life drawing is to the artist what figure 8's are to the skater."

So while developing my computer skills, I attended weekly drop-in life drawing sessions - the ‘compulsory figures’ for visual artists just as figure 8’s are for skaters. After a year or so with graphite pencil and paper, I switched to 6 coloured pencils in the basic impressionist palette of warm and cool red, yellow and blue. Many of these drawings were the basis for early paintings which you can view in the Newds Gallery.

my first website

1999 - 2009 Portrait Gallerya painting is different than a photograph

Go to my Portfolio page to see people, groups, pets, homes and scenes.

About Cindy What a wonderful thing is a life !

ipaintings.cindy@gmail.com

I have seen beauty all my life. I have danced ballet, ridden horses, made elaborate gardens, operated a turret lathe, cooked bread from sour dough, studied karate and flunked judo, worn a corset and danced a minuet, driven a brown UPS truck, used cotton fabric for wallpaper and made sculptures for light switch plates, given birth and been a mom, painted with oils and many water based paint, washed dishes in a mining camp in the Yukon, toured wineries in Australia, read many books, studied anatomy, stood for hours punching a cash register, hitchhiked across Canada, sailed in the ocean beyond the continental shelf . . . Throughout the whole span I have drawn.

EdcinART Company was formed in 1998, to produce digital fine art. I was living in Edmonton, Alberta at the time so I combined name and place to make a unique name. I am now living in Ontario. I started using my cel phone and iPad to do plein aire painting.

The vision is to create art that can be handed down through generations - a valuable family heirloom. Being digital, not only can it hang in a frame and is easily adaptable to note cards and other print projects but is also ready to use on a web page or email.