Over the past two or three years I have been amazed (and dismayed) by hearing how many people have ended up with serious back, arm or wrist problems as a result of long hours at the computer. Digital artists are certainly not immune. A few months ago I too started to get lower back ache [...]
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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 [...]
The Woods. iPhone collage., originally uploaded by purple0wl. I’ve been trying Juxtaposer, a handy art app that allows you to make collages on an iPhone or iPod Touch. You work with two images. One picture acts as the background. The other is the foreground. The foreground’s the active picture. Crop it, size it, twist it, [...]
Phoenix Awaits the Bonfires , originally uploaded by purple0wl. Bonfire night is bonanza time for the phoenix! Here he prepares for the Fifth of November. Well, the 6th actually. He will have to wait for the ashes from which he can rise again. The image of the phoenix too has gone through quite a few [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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