Owl on February 11th, 2010

Nocturne, originally uploaded by purple0wl. Click on the picture then on ‘View On Black’ to see this picture at larger size I’ve been thinking a lot about texture in iPhone paintings now the iPad is on the way. It’s no use trying to give a tiny picture interesting brush strokes or textures. There just aren’t [...]

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Owl on February 3rd, 2010

Afternoon Apple, originally uploaded by purple0wl. I took a photo of an apple with my iPhone 3GS. Displaying the photo on my computer screen, I finger painted it back onto the iphone in a paint app called Layers. Layers created a stir among iphone artists a while ago, because for the first time it offered [...]

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Owl on January 14th, 2010

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 [...]

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Owl on January 3rd, 2010

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, [...]

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Owl on December 30th, 2009

iPhone Painting, originally uploaded by purple0wl. I was just lounging in front of the TV watching someone talking about the news. I started to caricature him on my iphone in a new drawing app called Vellum …only to find he had disappeared and it was another face I was drawing. Cut to an hour or [...]

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Owl on November 1st, 2009

Phoenix Awaits the Bonfires , originally uploaded by purple0wl. Bonfire night is bonanza time for the phoenix! Here he prepares for the Fifth of November. Well, the 6th actually. He will have to wait for the ashes from which he can rise again. The image of the phoenix too has gone through quite a few [...]

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Owl on October 7th, 2009

Week 32: Alberto Giacometti, originally uploaded by purple0wl. This week I’ve been posing on my iphone for a portrait by Alberto Giacometti Mind you, I had to diet a bit, but I learned a lot… Copying famous artists’ styles is a wonderful way of discovering your own iphone or ipod finger painting style. Added to [...]

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