Featured iArtist: Yoshiyuki Uchida

by patrickj November 9, 2010

Wow. Yoshiyuki Uchida’s artwork done on the iPad and the iPhone is beautiful and impressive right off the bat. When you then learn that Yoshiyuki is an over-50 year old businessman in Tokyo who had ‘no idea’ of painting seriously until six months ago the work is all the more amazing. I have just started [...]

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Featured iPad Art – 2.28 Winslow Homer by Patricio Villarroel

by patrickj November 6, 2010

Yet another new favorite from an old favorite. This one is titled ‘2.28 Winslow Homer’ and is by Patricio Villarroel.  Here is the brief description offered alongside the image in Flickr: after winslow homer "the bird catchers" (1860-1865) It was created on an iPad and Patricio used the following apps on it: Photo Tropodelic, ArtRage, [...]

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Hockney on the Allure of the iPad for Artists: “Picasso or Van Gogh would have snapped one up”

by patrickj November 4, 2010

David Hockney has an exhibition running in Paris titled ‘Fleurs Fraiches’ (fresh flowers) – featuring floral images he has created on the iPhone and iPad. Better still, the pieces are being displayed not on canvas, but on more than a dozen iPads. The BBC has a wonderful report up on the new show, and on [...]

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Featured iPhone Art – Misty Morning by Sally La Main

by patrickj November 3, 2010

The image above is titled ‘Misty Morning’. It’s by SallyAnn La Main, and was created using Brushes on an iPhone. For me, there’s so much to like about this image. I was lucky enough to grow up a short walk from a boat basin. This painting conjures up lots of good memories of that place [...]

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Featured iPad Art: Lolli-Pop by Luis Peso

by patrickj November 2, 2010

Another for the new favorite from an old favorite category. I can’t say that lollipops are generally a subject I’m fascinated by, but this image just leapt off the page when I first saw it. The colors are amazing. A lollipop hasn’t looked this good to me in years. It’s called ‘Lolli-Pop’ and it is [...]

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Featured iPad Artist: Catherine Foot

by patrickj October 31, 2010

The image above is called ‘Pelican Summer’ and it’s by today’s featured iPad artist, Catherine Foot. Catherine lives near Melbourne, Australia and says this about her work on the iPad: I am only new to the iPad, but I love it! And it has got me back into creating art again … I love the [...]

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Featured iPhone Artist: Eric Molinsky

by patrickj October 30, 2010

Eric Molinsky does wonderful ‘slice of life’ type portraits of people he observes around him. He does them using the SketchBook  app on his iPhone, and the vast majority are done wile riding the subway in New York City. The portraits are compelling to me because they all have a perfect sort of ‘every man’ [...]

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On Sale – Photoforge for iPhone and iPad

by patrickj October 29, 2010

PhotoForge – the popular and acclaimed editing and painting app for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad – is currently on sale. A pretty steep discount is on offer for both versions of the app. The iPhone version has dropped from $2.99 to just $0.99, and the iPad version is reduced from $4.99 to $2.99. Here’s [...]

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Featured iPhone Art: Fingerpainting Times Square by Joseandrés Guijarro

by patrickj October 29, 2010

A new favorite from an old favorite. It’s called ‘Fingerpainting Times Square’ and it’s by Joseandrés Guijarro, le legra negra – and it shows some of his colleagues who attended last weekend’s MobileArt Con 2010 conference in New York, at work fingerpainting in Times Square. For lots more of la legra negra’s brilliant work, check [...]

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Apps for Artists – myPANTONE

by patrickj October 28, 2010

Passing this one along as a recommendation from our good friend Corliss Blakely.  It’s an official app published by Pantone themselves, the makers of the famous color-matching system. Corliss uses this for checking colors and sending colors for commissions, and says it’s a great app. Here’s more detail on the app, straight from its App [...]

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MobileArt Con 2010 Portraits – by Matthew Seydel Connors

by patrickj October 28, 2010

One of my very favorite things about running this little site is following the wonderful community of digital artists whose work I share here. I’m continually amazed not just by their talents on the digital canvas of iOS devices, but by their generosity of spirit. Every single time I look in on the many Flickr [...]

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