Today was “Parents get to watch dance class” day. In the afternoon my daughter Ludi and I went to see my oldest daughter, Jadzia. The “public” part of the class came at the end, so Ludi and I were waiting for a bit. During the downtime we played a few games on the iPad, and then she drew a picture of me using Adobe Ideas.

It’s amazing what sort of graphical tools are available for mobile devices now. For example, I love the Paper app. My kids don’t quite grasp all of its cool tools, but they do appreciate that their art lives in their own “books.”

We’ve come a long way from the tools I had when I was a kid! My art program of choice in the late 1980s / early 1990s was Neochrome, a program included with almost every Atari ST ever made. Talented folks could use Neochrome to make some cool images. I was not such a person, but that didn’t stop me from making my own creations.

Here are a few gems from me and my brother Justin:

@online{renaud2013kids,
  author       = {Josh Renaud},
  title        = {Kids drawing on computers, then and now},
  year         = {2013},
  month        = apr,
  organization = {Break Into Chat},
  url          = {https://breakintochat.com/blog/2013/04/06/kids-drawing-on-computers-then-and-now/},
  urldate      = {}
}

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