Nocturne, originally uploaded by purple0wl.
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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 enough pixels.
Paintings [...]
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, move 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 resurrections on [...]
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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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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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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Week 29: Small, originally uploaded by purple0wl.
Run any iphone painting through the photo app 101 PhotoEffects, and even if you don’t transform your finger work into a masterpiece, you’ll learn a lot.
This seascape was painted on my iPhone in the app Inspire.
In Inspire you can choose how much paint to load onto your brush, [...]