Check Out David Hockney’s Rarely Seen iPad Drawings of the View From His Bedroom Window

In 2009, the artist David Hockney started drawing with his
thumbs on his iPhone. Then, the following year, when the iPad came
out, he started using that, often drawing with a stylus pen. “There
was great advantage in this medium because it’s backlit and I could
draw in the dark. I didn’t ever have to get out of bed,” Hockney
writes in his new book of iPad drawings, My Window, out
this month from Taschen.

The book is a collection of the iPhone and iPad drawings Hockney
made of the view from his bedroom in Bridlington, East Yorkshire,
between 2009 and 2012. “From about April to August when the sun is
in the north, if I didn’t pull the curtains or lower the venetian
blind down, the sun would wake me up—at about 4:30 a.m.,” he
writes. “I would never have thought to do a sunrise without the
iPhone.”

See more of Hockney’s sunrises, flowers, and seasonal scenes
from his window below.

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