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 [...]
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 does a set subject [...]
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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 a video that he [...]
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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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It occurs to me that people who do not accept the legitimacy of digital art are not asking themselves “Is it Art?” but “Is it Photography?”
Critics of art works created in computer art software – Corel Painter for instance – seem to regard drawing as some kind of fairground trick. Regardless of the often quoted [...]
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 app Inspire.
In Inspire you can choose how much paint to load onto your brush, [...]
Some while ago, hidden in a dusty corner of my parents’ loft, I found an old trunk. In it my adoring mother had hoarded bundles of letters and drawings I made as a child.
This is a very early example. I remember drawing it.
The house was not hard to draw. Door, windows, chimney and there you [...]