David Hockney Trades iPhone for iPad

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Veteran pop artist David Hockney, who has been fingerpainting daily on his iPhone, has now started sketching on an iPad.

It seems he may be ready to ditch the phone for the digital sketch pad:
“The iPad is far more subtle, in fact it really is like a drawing pad. They will sell by the million,” Hockney told The Standard. “It can be anything you want it to be. This is the nearest we have got to seeing what I would call a universal machine.

Hockney, 72, has been using Apple devices to create art since 2009, favoring the Brushes app, which is what he uses on the iPad, too.
“What makes the iPad better than the iPhone is its larger size. The iPhone was more about the relationship between the hand and the ear whereas this is all about the hand and the eye and makes for far better co-ordination.”

We’ve done a few stories on iPhone art, if you’re ready to trade the iPhone for the iPad — or not — we’d like to hear from you.

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