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 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 October 25th, 2009

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 does a set subject [...]

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Owl on October 12th, 2009

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 a video that he [...]

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Owl on October 7th, 2009

Week 32: Alberto Giacometti, originally uploaded by purple0wl.
This week I’ve been posing on my iphone for a portrait by Alberto Giacometti
Mind you, I had to diet a bit, but I learned a lot…
Copying famous artists’ styles is a wonderful way of discovering your own iphone or ipod finger painting style.
Added to this, [...]

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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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Owl on September 13th, 2009

Silver Pear, originally uploaded by purple0wl.
In Apple’s iTunes app store, iPhone painting apps seem mainly to be listed under Entertainment.
Well, yes. Doodling on an iPhone or iPod Touch can be as good as a good game, but iphone painting apps have been increasing in number and sophistication. Some artists are beginning to take [...]

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