Owl on July 3rd, 2010

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Owl on September 23rd, 2009

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 appĀ Inspire. In Inspire you can choose how much paint to load onto your [...]

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Owl on September 20th, 2009

Week 29: Ivan Aivazovsky, originally uploaded by purple0wl. I made this iPhone finger painting yesterday evening. It was done in the iphone art application, Inspire. Why do I love usingĀ Inspire, particularly for this kind of misty, swirling subject? In Inspire you can load your brush with just as much colour as you choose, and when [...]

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Owl on June 23rd, 2009

What is it about the iPhone painting app Brushes that makes it the artists’ favourite for touchscreen finger painting? Funnily enough, the Brushes painting app doesn’t offer a particularly wide range of brushes. Only three in fact. Hairy, less hairy and not at all hairy. The Brushes palette does give a huge range of colours [...]

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Owl on April 30th, 2009

Sorry, but it’s very nearly impossible to set up the iPhone 3G to take a bad photo by mis-setting the settings. There aren’t any. Controls for speed, aperture, focus and other doorways to photographic disaster are non-existent on the iPhone 3G. All you’ve got is a shutter button and that’s it. I did have a [...]

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