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 July 3rd, 2010

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Owl on June 14th, 2010

Shepherd’s Delight, originally uploaded by purple0wl. I’ve had my iPad for a couple of weeks now. Still experimenting. Compared with my iPhone, the iPad with its larger screen is certainly easier to draw on. As a matter of fact, as far as I can see, the pictures you end up with are no larger than [...]

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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 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 October 12th, 2009

Thumbs Down, originally uploaded by purple0wl. Here is a finger painting I did with Brushes app on my iPhone 3GS. I drew each ‘ring’ and nail on the hand with the finger it is drawn on. The finger painter Jorge Columbo has now produced his second New Yorker cover on his iPhone. I noticed in [...]

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Owl on September 23rd, 2009

Week 29: Small, originally uploaded by purple0wl. Run any iphone painting through the photo app 101 PhotoEffects, and even if you don’t transform your finger work into a masterpiece, you’ll learn a lot. This seascape was painted on my iPhone in the appĀ Inspire. In Inspire you can choose how much paint to load onto your [...]

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