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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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, [...]
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 using 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 it [...]
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 to choose [...]
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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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