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 17th, 2010

I thought you might be interested to see the drawing-painting-photographic apps I’ve used to date on my iPhone, and a few on my iPad. (These fingerpainting apps are also of course usable on iPod Touch.) BEST IPHONE/IPAD PAINTING APPS in order of my personal preference of the moment Brushes Sketchbook Mobile Layers Art Studio inspire [...]

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Owl on July 3rd, 2010

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Owl on March 30th, 2010

Hmmm…, originally uploaded by purple0wl. How do you draw a doubtful owl? Hmmm… Luckily sleight of hand comes to the rescue when you’re drawing facial expressions. (Or rather, sleight of finger in this iPhone drawing.) Facial expressions are always a mixture of unconscious and deliberate grimaces. On paper (or as in this case the iphone [...]

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Owl on March 3rd, 2010

IPhone Art App Mixer, originally uploaded by purple0wl. How many iphone art apps were used to create this image? Four, if I remember rightly. Maybe more. The background started life as an iphone photo of a doorway in Barcelona. After a tracing in Vihgo followed by a mashup in Photo Studio it was never the [...]

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Owl on February 25th, 2010

Spider Assesses a Web Page, originally uploaded by purple0wl. Why does fine art have to have the monopoly of abstracts? Actually I think most cartoons are abstracts. They use notations to express actions and emotions that are not at all what you actually see in real life. Here we see a web spider, doubtless one [...]

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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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