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 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 June 14th, 2009

Seth Godin in his famous marketing book, Purple Cow, advocates being – yes, a purple cow.
I can’t say I was all that keen on the idea when I first set up on the net. Destiny, however, had other plans.
I started on the internet by looking for a memorable name. Scanning a list of design [...]

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Owl on November 6th, 2008

“It’s all wrong!” declared my art teacher, glaring accusingly at the offending artwork.
To be honest, I can’t now remember what dastardly offence the artist had committed.
I do know that my art class was on a visit to the National Gallery, England’s treasure house of million dollar paintings. At the time we were gazing thoughtfully at [...]

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Owl on October 31st, 2008

How’s your memory for faces?
The other day I realised something about the way I call up mental images of friends and relations. I was quite surprised. I wonder if your memory cheats on you the same way mine does.
One thing is almost certain. Considering the number of faces there are in the world, you have [...]

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