Owl on October 17th, 2010

Who Can See the Wind?, originally uploaded by purple0wl. This began as an oil pastel sketch on sugar paper. At the moment I’m mixing and stirring a co-presentation on iPhone, iPod and iPad finger painting apps for the coming IAMDA conference. (See previous post.) My oil pastel was to be an example of using FX [...]

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Owl on May 9th, 2010

The Women, originally uploaded by purple0wl. This image was created from an iphone photo of statues in the grounds of Arundel Castle, southern England. Channels, blending modes and filters were played one against the other in Corel Painter to give an eerie glow. How about making selections and masks in painting apps for the iphone. [...]

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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 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 [...]

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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 [...]

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