Owl on April 3rd, 2009

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 [...]

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Owl on March 25th, 2009

Easter looms. Season of over-packaged chocolate eggs and lumps of yellow cotton wool disguised as chickens. High time to hurry out another report for the great iPhone (and Ipod Touch) Chicken Drawing Research Project. What with the credit crunch and dwindling amount of cash for greeting cards, there’s going to be a whole lot of [...]

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Owl on March 7th, 2009

When Apple’s iTunes App Store opened last July, there were only some nineteen drawing and painting apps for the iPhone or Ipod. Now there are dozens of applications, all jumping up and down to tempt you with marvellous art tools and scot-free upgrades for life. Early bird. But did it get all the worms? Igraffiti [...]

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Owl on March 2nd, 2009

Talking of drawing and painting on an iPhone or Ipod Touch…  Come to think of it, I wasn’t. Never mind. Not so long ago I promised to reveal the results of the great Iphone and Ipod Chicken Drawing Project. Brought to you by Purple Owl Research (no less) this endeavour attempts to discover which painting [...]

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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 12th, 2008

    There’s no doubt leading an uninteresting life has its advantages. I’m all for it if it avoids my falling down a ravine, perishing just short of the North Pole, dying of an overdose, being shot by an assassin, eaten by a shark or otherwise disposed of. I have to admit, though, that when it [...]

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