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 [...]
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 [...]
The Old Balloon Man To learn about iPhone (or iPod Touch) art, you can’t do better than join a group of like minded finger painters. Even better if the group conspire to set a different subject every week for members to paint. The Balloon Man was made for the Flickr group Fingerpaint THIS! Not only [...]
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It isn’t what you think. It’s HOW you think it. Let me explain. Studying English Literature at Oxford university, I read a lot of books. Many made a big impression, but it was one I read later that really turned my universe upside down. …No. Make that two books that changed my life. The first [...]
Psst! Come with me. I will lead you to a magic land where everything is possible. Wave your wand and you can fly, vanish, turn into a wizard or travel in time. This is the world in your computer, virtual unreality, the realm of web and blog design. Here you can give free rein to [...]
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