Julia Kay, originally uploaded by purple0wl. If you’re keen on painting portraits, you’ll never be short of a model at Julia’s Portrait Party. Flickr groups, as far as I know, are all free to join, and this portrait group is a splendid opportunity. Post up a photo of yourself for others to paint, and lo [...]
Hmmm…, originally uploaded by purple0wl. How do you draw a doubtful owl? Hmmm… Luckily sleight of hand comes to the rescue when you’re drawing facial expressions. (Or rather, sleight of finger in this iPhone drawing.) Facial expressions are always a mixture of unconscious and deliberate grimaces. On paper (or as in this case the iphone [...]
IPhone Art App Mixer, originally uploaded by purple0wl. How many iphone art apps were used to create this image? Four, if I remember rightly. Maybe more. The background started life as an iphone photo of a doorway in Barcelona. After a tracing in Vihgo followed by a mashup in Photo Studio it was never the [...]
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Spider Assesses a Web Page, originally uploaded by purple0wl. Why does fine art have to have the monopoly of abstracts? Actually I think most cartoons are abstracts. They use notations to express actions and emotions that are not at all what you actually see in real life. Here we see a web spider, doubtless one [...]
Bicycle Snake. Beware!, originally uploaded by purple0wl. The Bicycle Snake has landed! The preferred diet of this rapacious reptile is fortunately bicycles, but it’s not a good idea to get in its way. It has a nasty bite. Noting that my new app Magic Brush allows you to make a finger painting brush from any [...]
The Woods. iPhone collage., originally uploaded by purple0wl. I’ve been trying Juxtaposer, a handy art app that allows you to make collages on an iPhone or iPod Touch. You work with two images. One picture acts as the background. The other is the foreground. The foreground’s the active picture. Crop it, size it, twist it, [...]
Christmas Card originally uploaded by purple0wl. As you’ll see by the iPod Classic, these robins first saw the light a while ago. They are taking the stage while I quietly panic behind the scenes, trying to think of what to draw or paint for this year’s card.
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