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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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