Today’s featured iPhone artist is P.M. Allen, a Boston artist who does freehand sketches on the iPhone and is fresh off a gallery showing that was mentioned in the Boston Globe.
The image above is titled ‘Galway House’. I like the colors and the feel of a typical neighborhood Irish bar.
Allen works with the Brushes app to produce his iPhone sketches.
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Inspire Pro – the popular and acclaimed iPad painting app – is on sale for Mother’s Day. Just for today, May 8th, it is down from $7.99 to just $0.99. Here’s a little slice of its App Store description on what makes it unique:
Try Inspire Pro and you will quickly see that it is a painting app like no other! The key feature is the simulation of wet oil paint on canvas, allowing amazing blending effects with five real kinds of brushes. You will be stunned by what you can do with a dry brush!
It has received some high praise from one of my favorite iArtists, Luis Peso:
“This new kid on the block is called Inspire Pro and it turns out to be even better than I could expect. Inspire Pro is a really enjoyable painting app which keeps the simplicity of Inspire, but allows us to paint at the higher resolution of the iPad screen. And it does it perfect.”
Here’s an App Store link for Inspire Pro; on sale today only for $0.99, with a standard price of $7.99.
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SketchBook Pro for iPad – Autodesk’s popular, award winning painting and drawing application for iPad – has had a huge update this week, to Version 2.0.
This already feature-rich app has added a slew of powerful new features including UI customization capabilities, additional brushes, additional brush properties, special new features for the iPad 2, Dropbox support, and lots more.
Alongside this major update, the app has also had a substantial price drop – from $7.77 to just $4.99. There’s nothing stated on this, but I have to imagine this is a short-term sale to mark the new update.
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This week painting and drawing apps have got one of the banner spots in the Featured area of the iPad App Store. Clicking through to the page full of showcased apps reveals some of the leading names in this arena – apps like Brushes – iPad Edition, ArtStudio for iPad, ArtRage, Layers, Inkpad, and a number of others.
There are also a few odd choices, for instance the Penultimate handwriting app.
Although these ‘mini’ featured sections don’t generally last long in the main featured area of the App Store, I like that Apple does them – as it helps some good apps get some extra exposure and it helps users on the lookout for new and interesting apps.
Did you notice the new Painting & Drawing section this week? If so, what do you think of the listing of apps?
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iPad Art came to my hometown of Austin last month, during the SXSW festivals. The Art from the iPad exhibition was held at the lovely Austin Details gallery in the heart of downtown. The gallery is run by my friend Jann Alexander, creator of the wonderful ‘Vanishing Austin’ series – and yet somehow I didn’t manage to get to see the Art from the iPad exhibition. I wanted to very much but it happened right around my daughter’s birthday, family visits from out of town, and a very hectic time at work.
I’m hoping Jann and Austin Details will run it again next year, as it looks like it was a great event. It featured lots of my favorite iPad and iPhone artists.
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