Nomad Brush – First Paintbrush Stylus for iPad

by patrickj February 26, 2011

Nomad Brush is touted as the first paintbrush stylus for the iPad, and the ideal tool for sketching and painting on touchscreen devices.  Here’s a little more of its elevator pitch: Nomad Brush features soft, flexible bristles made from a blend of natural and conductive fibers. This simple and elegant design makes it a perfect [...]

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Featured iArtist: Peter Schachter

by patrickj February 25, 2011

I love The Beautiful Game, football – or soccer if you insist. And I really love this image of one of the world’s greatest ever exponents of the beautiful game – Lionel Messi, of Argentina and Barcelona. It’s by Peter Schachter, and I’m very glad that he approached me via email to share it. Here [...]

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Hipstamatic and Sketchbook Pro Are Winners at 2010 Best App Ever Awards

by patrickj February 25, 2011

I’m a big fan of the Best App Ever Awards. They aim to recognize apps for excellence, not sales numbers – and they do a great job at it. So I always find it a very impressive note on an app’s resume if it wins one of these awards. The two winners in the Best [...]

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Apple Founder Loves His Portrait Done on an iPad

by patrickj December 18, 2010

This is an instant favorite for me. It’s titled simply iPad Portrait of Steve Wozniak at Work Today, and it was done by an iPad portrait master, David Newman. How cool is that? A superb portrait of one of Apple’s founders, at work and using Apple devices, created entirely on one of Apple’s latest marvels. [...]

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Featured iPhone Art: The Barkeeper by Simone Kirschning

by patrickj December 5, 2010

Who doesn’t love a good bartender. Someone who knows your drink and just how you like it. Someone to chat to about all of the world’s (or sometimes your own) troubles. Someone who can make a great mojito.  The Barkeeper is a tribute to just such a fellow. It’s by Simone Kirtschning and was done [...]

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Featured iPad Art: Video of Kyle Lambert’s Finger Painting of Will Smith

by patrickj December 2, 2010

We’ve featured one of Kyle Lambert’s portraits done on his iPad a couple months back. Above is a video of another of his incredible series of finger painted portraits – this time the actor Will Smith  is featured. This portrait was done on an iPad with the Brushes app – with one finger! Here’s a [...]

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ArtRage for iPad 40% Off Until End of the Month

by patrickj November 28, 2010

ArtRage -  a powerful and full-featured painting app for the iPad – is currently selling for 40% off until the end of November. It’s down from $6.99 to just $3.99. There are also 25% discounts on some of the ArtRage desktop apps through the end of the month, available via the Ambient Design (publishers of [...]

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Featured iPhone Art: Autumn Wood by SallyAnn La Main

by patrickj November 21, 2010

More beautiful work by SallyAnn La Main. This one is titled Autumn Wood – and here is a little more detail on the tools SallyAnn used on it: iPhone / painted in brushes then played with it in assorted apps…now I don’t remember which I really love the colors on this one. What an inviting [...]

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Featured iPad Art: Autumn Tints by Yoshiyuki Uchida

by patrickj November 14, 2010

Wow. Just wow. I only just featured the work of Yoshiyuki Uchida a few days ago, so generally I would not return to it so soon – but when I caught a glimpse of this image I just could not resist.  The colors and the reflections of them in the water are just spectacular, magical [...]

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Featured iPad Artist: Rita Flores

by patrickj November 12, 2010

We featured Rita Flores’ iPhone art a little over a year ago. Today I’m very happy to share some of her  iPad painting work. The image above is ‘FGT! Haffenstrasse, Copenhagen’. It was done with Brushes on iPad. I visited Copenhagen once with my dad. I don’t remember this place, but I do remember it [...]

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Featured iPad Art – Red, by Janet Vanderhoof

by patrickj November 11, 2010

This image is titled ‘Red’ and is by Janet Vanderhoof. It was done on an iPad with the Brushes app. I love all the different shades of red there are in the image – from the background to the lips and varying shades in the woman’s hair. I’m hoping to share more of Janet’s artwork [...]

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