Owl on February 3rd, 2010

Afternoon Apple, originally uploaded by purple0wl.

I took a photo of an apple with my iPhone 3GS. Displaying the photo on my computer screen, I finger painted it back onto the iphone in a paint app called Layers.
Layers created a stir among iphone artists a while ago, because for the first time it offered – guess [...]

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Owl on January 14th, 2010

Bicycle Snake. Beware!, originally uploaded by purple0wl.

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Owl on January 3rd, 2010

The Woods. iPhone collage., originally uploaded by purple0wl.
I’ve been trying Juxtaposer, a handy art app that allows you to make collages on an iPhone or iPod Touch.
You work with two images. One picture acts as the background. The other is the foreground. The foreground’s the active picture. Crop it, size it, twist it, move it. [...]

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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 two later [...]

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Owl on November 24th, 2009

Bridge. iPhone painting after Andre Francois, originally uploaded by purple0wl.

This iPhone finger painting was created in the app Inspire, after a watercolour by Andre Francois.
Inspire was the app I chose for this finger painting, because of its excellent blending facility. Inspire lets you choose just how much pigment you put on your ‘brush’ – down [...]

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Owl on November 1st, 2009

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 [...]

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Owl on October 1st, 2009

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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