There only a few days left for this one–so if you’re interested be sure to get your work in now.
Our friends at iPhoneArt.com (IPA) have launched their 2nd Annual Mobile Art Contest with $1000 going to the winning artist and additional prizes going to the 20 artists selected by this year’s jury. Here are the details: Continue reading
Mobile artist around the world can celebrate that the first full featured painting emulator for the iPad, ArtRage,has come to the iPhone. It’s special introductory price is only $ 0.99. Click here for details and download.
Watch this space for reviews and artwork. Whoohoo!
Spanish artist Xoan Baltar, illustrator and fingerpainter par excellence, was one of the first to kick off the iPhone art revolution in 2008. Now he has pushed the curve again by releasing a game entirely fingerprinted on the iPad.
You can download it to your iPhone or iPad here
Way to go Xoan!
With the iPhone 2g Steve Jobs created a mobile computing revolution that changed everything. Although mobile art was not started on an iPhone, it certainly exploded there. Digital fingerpainting was born. And our community of finger painters shortly afterwards. iPhone fingerpainting represented a digital revolution. Artist from around the world creating, sharing. Being inspired. Being foolish. A democratic phenomena spreading art around the world in an un predicated manner. A cafe society on steroids. Mashing art, apps, finding new ways to express. Did Steve imagine all this from the beginning? Perhaps. Perhaps this and more. Or perhaps a true visionary just knows how to mix the cocktails that will please the senses and liberate the mind. Comfortable in the knowlege that it will lead to great things.
There will be new and wonderful smartphones and digital devices from apple and it’s competitors. More unbelievable art will be created. Steve showed us the way and will be remembered alongside the greatest minds of history.
We fingerpainters are in happily in Steve’s debt.
(Image courtesy of Performita).
iAMDA‘s second annual conference is about to take place the weekend of Sept 30-Oct 2 at the ITP in New York. Featuring sessions with artists Luis Peso, David Kassan, John Bavaro or the mighty collaborators Fabric Lenny and Jonathan Grauel, it looks like a really great line-up of workshops. Continue reading
OK Fingerpainters, for those of you who prefer the comfort of a stylus there is a new one on the market, that I have had the honor of testing for the last 6 months and I must say it is my favorite of the new crop. It’s the Pogo Sketch Pro. Yes, made by the same people that gave you the small foam tipped beauty you could clip to your iPhone. The Pro version sports many new design features, each hitting a home run as far as I’m concerned. Fist, the purified solid aluminum tapered body, more reminiscent of a paintbrush than a pen. It’s about 5.5 inches long, an inch longer than the Wacom Bamboo and inch and a quarter longer than the griffen/targus/boxwave brands. Like the Bamboo it has extraordinary balance. Unlike any others though you can hold it at any angle.
That’s right, 5 degrees to straight up 90 it works. I have many, many styluses (styli?) in my collection and no other performs like this one does. It has a new patent pending tip technology involving patterned structures with in the tip itself. Kind of like little perforated holes so the tip is in constant contact with your preferred slab of joy. It is comfortable with my iPad 2 on an easel or iProp as well as my iPod Touch in hand.
It’s really responsive. The rubber tip being the same size and “squishiness” as the Bamboo (which is also a good choice for those who prefer a pen type stylus). The Pro also has a comfort grip, my hand never tires of using it. And best of all, it’s affordable at $24.95. It comes with 2 tips (I didn’t know that while I was testing.) The new rubber one and the classic foam tip. And even more good news, in October you will be able to purchase just replacement tips if anything happens to your Pogo Pro. I have had a fair share of the rubber tipped wonders just stop working and I love the idea of protecting my initial investment. I don’t know the price on those yet. I’m sure an announcement will come soon.
Now for those of you who are going to ask how it compares to my stylus socks…. I still LOVE those too. I am going to admit that my homemade charcoal holder with a shapedad plug shoved in it is still my favorite, but that’s because working with an easel the almost 10 inch length is best for me. But I am an odd duck.
I do carry the Pogo Pro everywhere I take my iPad or Touch. It’s especially good at taking notes as well as painting. I am waiting for the kickstarter Flow brush and the Cosmonaut… last I’ve heard they are still in production You will get my opinion as soon as they get to my door. Conclusion… if you like a stylus, You’ll love the Pogo Sketch Pro.
Here is the word from Ambient Design on the new release:
What’s New in Version 1.2.0 Seeing speed problems? Check out the Help Guide in the app for some easy troubleshooting steps!
Script Recorder: Record your paintings and play them back at higher resolution on a desktop machine. 1.2 adds Script Recording to the application: You can turn on the Script Recorder when creating a new file, and every stroke you paint will be recorded to a script file. Script files can be exported via iTunes or sent directly by email to play back in a desktop version of ArtRage Studio or Studio Pro. More information on scripts and recording can be found in the Help section under Files.
Export PNG: As well as emailing and saving copies of your paintings to the Photos app you can now export PNG copies direct to iTunes.
Fixed a problem importing images larger than 1440 x 1440 to layers and references. All forms of image import should now correctly handle images of any available size.
Updated the Help section on ‘Files’ to cover scripts and improve explanations of how to handle files in ArtRage.
Added troubleshooting tips to the Help section for users who experience speed problems: Many speed problems can be solved very simply by following a couple of easy steps. See the Speed & Memory section in the help files!
Adjusted Import Image to Layer to scale to fit the current canvas on import.
The long-awaited moment has arrived. iAMDA’s MobileArtCon 2011 is back and “On The Move” in NYC! The Con kicks with an ArtCrawl through the city on September 30th to be followed by a 2-day artist retreat and public art showing on October 1-2, 2011 at NYU’s ITP Department. Continue reading
