Partnership with Apple: Created on Ipad

My name is Ronaldo Byrd and I am a 29-year-old contemporary artist. I was born in Brooklyn, NY, but I reside in Burlington, NJ with my family. I love golfing, listening to music, going to the movies and playing video games. I have never had experience with the iPad Pro, but I am familiar with painting and drawing on the computer. My advice for using the iPad Pro and Apple Pencil would be to think as creatively as possible and then just go for it!

My name is Kimberly Gerry-Tucker. I’m 53, the author of an autism memoir, a QA software tester, and artist from Seymour, Connecticut. My hobbies are raising insects, designing faerie villages, and the study of trees (among other things!) I’ve never owned an iPad. What fun to paint with digital pencils! I feel confident I can reach a higher level with what I have been capable of creating and insofar of all the creations I have in mind, with more practice and new exciting apps. I had used Corel and Photoshop on my laptop before, but I’ve never used a pencil in digital art. With iPad Pro, no clean-up! What an excellent product.  I’m so thrilled to have been chosen as I’m just beginning to open up new worlds of creation.

My name is Jalyn Bishop Weston. I am 15 and an artist from Sweetwater, TN. My hobbies include writing, drawing and even dabbing in extra-curricular forms of art like sculpting, oil painting and animating. I have not had any other experience with the iPad for creating art before. I really love how the Ipad Pro and Apple Pencil collaborate together. There is no limit as to what you can create with this pencil, and it frees up most of the limitations you would have if you made art with just a brush or any other drawing utensil.

My name is Joel Anderson. I am 27 years old and live in Fallbrook, California. I have always had a passion for art and started drawing when I was five and painting when I was eleven. I enjoy using my creativity in animation, video productions, children’s books and painting. I love traveling internationally and have spoken about autism in China, Peru, Canada and across the US. This is my first experience creating art on iPad. I’m so happy that I was chosen to be a part of the Created on iPad project! Using the Apple Pencil on iPad Pro was like making magic with my art. It really energizes my art. I like being able to take iPad with me and create art on the go. Apple Temecula put together a great team of Creative Pros to work with me on learning how to use iPad and Apple Pencil. The Creative Pros taught me unique skills and really inspired me! Using Apple Pencil was so real it’s like I am actually drawing or painting.

I go by the artist name Wen of Zen. I’m 47 from Nashville, TN. My hobbies are rock collecting, quantum physics, computing, genetics and everything science. Because I was a tech nerd before we were cool, I purchased the first iPad in 2010. The power of iPad Pro, combined with the versatility and responsiveness of iPad applications to the Apple Pencil, allow me to enjoy the actual creation of my art. The iPad Pro is like being in the largest and most diverse art studio in the universe. If you can see it in your head, you can see it anywhere now.

David Idell, 24, resides in Thousand Oaks, CA. David has never had iPad Pro experience before and worked with Keri Bowers, co-founder of the Art of Autism on his creations. Though he uses few words to communicate, David’s ability to express ideas, thoughts, and desires through art, mixing colors, including the fulfillment of paid commissions of pet portraiture, is uncanny.