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 of Google’s [...]
Nocturne, originally uploaded by purple0wl.
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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 enough pixels.
Paintings [...]
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 – guess [...]
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Bicycle Snake. Beware!, originally uploaded by purple0wl.
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 two later [...]
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 resurrections on [...]
Early iPhone Painting Using 2 Apps, originally uploaded by purple0wl.
The first iphone drawing app I bought was Sketches. Fascinated and frustrated by the doddery marks that were all I could come up with on the touch screen, I forked out in some desperation for iDoodle, Scribble and NetSketch.
Not that these apps exactly broke [...]
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