The London, it's in Southampton

The London, Southampton

I've been passing this pub weekly for the past 5 years, never been in - keep meaning to, heard it's fab for a Drag Queen cabaret night. but every time I pass it I DROOL at the tiles. I know it's not something that floats everyones boat but I have always had a Victorian architectural obsession. I love the lettering, the glass, the heavy ornamentation, the wrought iron. But TILES are just the best. Even in infant school I remember making it my mission to peel of the heavy duty cream paint that was 'brightening up' our Victorian toilet block. The gorgeous honey coloured glaze was so much nicer...

... Any hoo, enough of that, back to creating the picture. So I've been using that Paper App (by 53) on my iPad again. The moody watercolour washes were ideal to get to get across the facade's richness and depth of colour. I did it in sections. Partly as the screen on my iPad only allows for so much detail when drawing with a finger. (You can use a stylus which produces blacker lines but even the Wacom Bamboo iPad stylus is a pretty chunky line, and you are never without your finger). But also I wanted the final image to be about A4 300 dpi. I'm using an iPad2 and whether I've tried a 'screengrab' and I've tried email The ‘screengrab’ .png - comes in at 1.6mb   the emailed jpeg just 339kb - but the image when opened in Photoshop its the same size. I'm not a fan of googling but maybe there's an answer which doesn't involve new iPad! I opted for asking the horses mouth @FiftyThree I'll let you know if they have anything to add.

The recently added colour blender on the Paper upgrade makes it more flexible as a professional tool. And you can now duplicate the previous page rub out what you don't need and draw the next piece using the same colours and style. Just really want to be able to use it on the Mac too!