Owl on August 9th, 2009

Digital painting on iPhone or iPod Touch is growing more and more sophisticated. You can of course blend colours as you paint on your iphone, so long as the app you’re using offers transparency. Current favourite iphone painting apps like Brushes, Layers and Colors all offer transparency. Lay down strips of see-through colour and you [...]

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Owl on June 23rd, 2009

What is it about the iPhone painting app Brushes that makes it the artists’ favourite for touchscreen finger painting? Funnily enough, the Brushes painting app doesn’t offer a particularly wide range of brushes. Only three in fact. Hairy, less hairy and not at all hairy. The Brushes palette does give a huge range of colours [...]

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Owl on June 7th, 2009

Here are two sets of polygons pretending to be Art. Can you spot the difference? …Don’t spend too much time on it. This is a trick question. Here goes. iPhone Art Painting 1: Posing Polygons iPhone Art Painting 2: Suspicion You may have noticed that the first format is a bit fatter than the second, [...]

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Owl on June 1st, 2009

Many people complain that the iPhone doesn’t take very good photos in low light. I disagree. I do have to concede, however, that the iphone doesn’t take very good pictures in the dark. There’s a health club in the park land opposite my house. Once, I imagine, one of England’s Stately Homes, it has an [...]

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Owl on April 10th, 2009

Yes. My iphone has produced chickens. I’ve been using it for the great iPhone and iPod Touch Chicken Drawing Project. In other words, I’ve been trying out iphone art apps. I’ve been hoping to discover which of the ever increasing number of iphone art apps is best for a bit of serious finger painting 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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