MDAC 2021 Speakers
James Julier
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James Julier is a UK artist and teacher who graduated Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge with an Art and Printmaking BA Combined Honours. He has become a popular proponent of digital art through his YouTube landscape painting tutorials which has Million+ views and has an ever growing subscriber base there and elsewhere. Though his sensibilities and foundations lie in the traditional art disciplines of painting, drawing and printmaking, he now exclusively works in the digital realm, specifically on iPad with Apple Pencil.
His personal work has its genesis in abstract forms, but his work then develops the tangible clarity of realism through his use of light, texture and colour inspired mainly by the natural environment. It is his passion for the natural world that pushes his personal surreal work forwards, but also gives him the motivation to teach and inspire others both as high school art teacher and YouTuber. His work and tutorials can be found at www.jamesjulier.com and https://youtube.com/JamesJulier-Artist |
Adria Ellis
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Adria Ellis has been active in the iPhoneography community since 2010, she was a featured artists in the L.A. Mobile Arts festival in 2012, and her work has repeatedly been celebrated in the MPA as well as the IPPA awards. Adria graduated from Brooks Institute of Photography in 1996, it is this foundation that set her apart as she moved from shooting with an SLR to becoming a an iPhone devotee, and master.
In 2015 Ellis opened a small gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico and participated in curating an exclusive exhibition of iPhone Photography at the esteemed Evoke Gallery. Since 2016 Adria has been taking small groups to Havana Cuba on photography excursions. “I have tried on many different hats over the last 10, introducing people to Havana, Cuba and teaching photography is certainly my favorite.” Adria is looking forward to sharing her skills with us as she walks you through mobile shooting preparation, selecting an image and using different apps to manipulate and enhance a photograph. Her work can be seen here : https://aconica.com/ |
Jeremy Sutton
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Born in London, UK, Jeremy studied life drawing, sculpture and etching at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University, U.K., while earning a degree in Physics at the University. He studied lithography and life drawing at the Vrije Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten, The Hague, The Netherlands, before moving to the heart of Silicon Valley, California, in 1988. First introduced to digital paint in 1991, he live painted on the Wacom booth at SIGGRAPH 1991 Conference in Las Vegas, and has been exploring the digital art medium ever since. After a career selling superconducting magnets and cryogenic systems for physics research, Jeremy became a full time professional artist in 1994 and that year used a prototype Apple PowerBook to draw Sir Richard Branson’s digital portrait on board the Virgin Atlantic San Francisco Inaugural. He is the author of six books on digital painting, including the Painter Creativity: Digital Artist’s Handbook series, and of numerous DVDs. Jeremy, who has used Painter since version 1, is one of only fifty six Corel Painter Elite Masters in the world. He is founder and chief instructor of the online education resource PaintboxTV.com; and has been a platform speaker at many international technology and professional photography conferences. Jeremy is in demand as a live event digital performance painter at special events. He performed live digital painting for Cirque du Soleil in the TOTEM show Tapis Rouge tent in San Francisco; live painted on the iPad at the opening of the epic David Hockney “Bigger Exhibition” in the de Young Museum, 2012, and at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s “America Now! Innovation in Art” event in Washington D.C., 2015; and live painted, using Procreate, the launching and christening of the luxury cruise liner ‘Seven Seas Splendor’ in Miami earlier this year.
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COMING SOON - An experienced digital art instructor
Sumit Vishwakarma
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Sumit Vishwakarma is the founder of Mobile Art Academy and curator of mDAC Summit. Professionally an engineer and an artist at heart, Sumit exclusively creates art on iPad and tablets using different apps, his fingers or a stylus. His goal is to educate kids, teens and adults about simple digital techniques that can be applied with traditional painting skills to create beautiful artwork on tablets. He researches with new apps, app mashing and develop creative 'app-flows'. His scope of mobile creativity covers a wide spectrum from digital art to animation, 3D modeling to media creation and movie making.
He has been featured speaker at Macworld, National Creativity Summit - Pittsburgh, TEDx, Mobile Creativity & Innovation Symposium - NZ and several mobile art events. His work has been featured in various art galleries including the first Mobile Art Festival in Los Angles, Apple flagship store in San Francisco, Autodesk Sketchbook news, Macworld Digital Art gallery and other art & tech blogs such as cult-of-Mac, TUAW, iCreate Magazine. |
Caroline Mustard
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Caroline Mustard is the co-founder and education director of Mobile Art Academy. Born in England, she graduated Brighton University with a BA in Fine Arts (Painting). She is an accomplished artist with years of experience in art direction, scenic and faux painting. She recently returned to her roots as an artist and has embraced mobile art. With a passion for passing on what she has learned to others, Caroline leads the Mobile Art Academy’s education initiative with classes throughout the Silicon Valley to students of all ages. She has been featured in Fast Company, California State of Creativity Summit, and Apple Inc.
Her work can be seen at www.carolinemustard.com |