Owl on July 18th, 2010

Here are some iPad – iPhone – iPod Touch art apps I know about but have not personally tried. Among the hundreds of Apple apps, there are sure to be some painting and drawing apps I have missed out. Do comment and tell me if you know of any. Thanks. For the painting, drawing (and [...]

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Owl on March 30th, 2010

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 [...]

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Owl on February 25th, 2010

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 [...]

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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 February 8th, 2009

Iphone or ipod. Oh dear. How do you choose which to use for doodling, drawing or painting? Both iPhone and Ipod Touch can give artists and simple scribblers a simply magical sketchbook. Both put artistic expression literally at your finger tips. Even when the Iphone App Store first opened its doors there were five or [...]

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Owl on September 28th, 2008

You will be pleased to learn that I have been busy wasting my time, teaching myself finger drawing on my iPhone. Okay, okay. You haven’t got an iPhone. You haven’t even got an iPod. In which case the following slice of knowledge will be even more useless to you than it would be if you [...]

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