Week 51: Rembrandt, originally uploaded by purple0wl.
This iPhone finger painting started life as a freehand copy in ‘Brushes’ app of a famous Victorian portrait. So freehand, in fact, that it quickly ceased to bear any resemblance to its subject. Ah well. What I was trying to capture was the treatment of light by that remarkable early photographer, Julia Margaret Cameron.
With the iPad looming larger and larger on the horizon, I’m beginning to think about the size of iphone paintings. I think you’ll agree that this picture has more impact when you view it larger. (To do that, click on the picture above to see it in my Flickr gallery, then click it again to view it at large size.)
My iPhone screen measures 640 x 480 pixels. Paintings in Brushes and many other art and photo apps are often saved to the iPhone gallery at a titchy 480 x 320. Even smaller.
The iPad screen will be 1,024 x 768. Quite a bit bigger.
Luckily (for Mac users anyway) Brushes Viewer Mac desktop app will save your Brushes pictures at up to 6x magnification. Huge.
I found that 2x magnification was plenty for web viewing.
COME ALONG NOW, PUT YOUR WORST FACE FORWARD!
PAINTER 12 BRUSHES