iPhone, iPod and iPad fingerpainting blog

Mar 4 2010

“iPhone/iTouch Painting a Week” Group Completes its First Year!

Mia Robinson
Week 19: Velazquez Tribute by Sandy Schmidt (Blue Sky Day)

And so it is that the inaugural year of “iphone/ipod painting a week” has come to a close.  The iPhone art group was founded only 52 weeks ago by a very talented fingerpainter we’ve all come to know and love named Sandy Schmidt (also known among the community of fingerpainters as Blue Sky Day) who, with a little nudging from her daughter, decided to create a group that would challenge iphone artists of all backgrounds, skill levels and interests to produce at least one painting a week on an assigned subject.  The group, originally dubbed “ Brushes 52”, proved to be a huge success in its first year, and within weeks became the go-to place for artists seeking a challenge, new direction, inspiration or just plain out fun ideas for fingerpaintings.

Over the past year, the group membership has grown to 191 dedicated artists who have, week after week, created masterful fingerpaintings inspired by creative themes and Masters of the past like Rembrandt and Basquiat!

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Mar 1 2010

Artists are geeks, too

Benjamin Rabe

Last week I was at the RaumschiffEr.de (un-)conference and did my first pecha kucha on fingerpainting. Here are the slides:

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Feb 28 2010

New fingerpainting app ArtStudio

Benjamin Rabe

ArtStudio is a new iPhone/iPod Touch painting app by polish developer Sylwester Los of iPhone Clan.

iPhone Clan is another one-man-shop, “I implemented everything myself”, says Sylwester Los, “only with some design-help. After testing all drawing/painting apps i was not happy with either quality, performance or the interface. So i decided to create my own app”.

Here’s a good video-walkthrough:

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Feb 23 2010

“Humanoid vs. Nature” Inspire 1.5 Art Contest begins February 22nd

Mia Robinson

"Humanoid vs. Nature", Thierry Schiel

Okay, people, its time to rev those creative engines and flex those index fingers, there’s an art contest in FP Land!

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Feb 20 2010

Michael Ives Speaks about iPhone Art at AZ Apple Stores

Mia Robinson

Michael Ives at La Encantada Apple Store, Tucson, AZ

Fingerpainter Michael Ives has been invited to speak and showcase his work at 3 Apple locations throughout the Tucson and Phoenix areas this week. He’s also been invited to present his work to a regional MacIntosh users group.

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Feb 19 2010

You can paint on the iPad. Now!

Benjamin Rabe

For all of us who can’t wait for the iPad to extend the realms of fingerpainting, the people over at notepod.net have the solution:

“One 189mm x 243mm 100pp Notepod with a light grey strawboard back. Makes a perfect mouse-mat or desk jotter.”

(via Kevin Barba, thx!)

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Feb 19 2010

Making comics, the whole production line now on your iPhone

Benjamin Rabe

There’s a new meme in town, and it’s making comic strips on the iPhone. With the arrival of Strip Designer by Vivid apps. It’s a bit like plasq’s Comic Life on the iPhone, but where its iPhone version lacks multi panel support, this is the real thing. You can choose from many different templates, using up to four panels.

Fingerpainted comic – Burry&Cannot: On blank slates

Burry&Cannot: On blank slates

Burry&Cannot – THE LIFE OF A VEGETABLE AND ITS ARTISTIC HARE is a little pet-project of mine where I use Brushes and Strip Designer. As you can see, there’s the usual set of bubbles, you can allign them as you want, change size and tail, etc.

an unfortunate series of events

an unfortunate series of events by KevinBee

The latest update also let’s you add sound stamps, plus download and install your favorite fonts via sites like blambot.com e.g. which is pretty awesome I think.

A very selective history

A very selective history by Matthew Watkins

More info: Vivid apps. And where’s an app for that, there’s also a flickr group for that.

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Feb 19 2010

Deborah McMillion’s iPhone art-show coming up

Benjamin Rabe

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Deborah McMillion, aka Hotel Midnight, will be showing her fingerpainted artwork at the Arizona Museum for Youth in April.

“I call my style of work retro-surreal.”

she told us in an interview.

“I made that up. It comforts galleries since I don’t fit classic Surrealism or pop-surrealism.”

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Feb 14 2010

Steve Sprang on Brushes and the iPad

Benjamin Rabe

Good interview by fingerpainter Performita with Steve Sprang.

On the iPad:

“I think it’s a very different experience. The larger display makes it more immersive and you spend much less time switching contexts.”

On future plans:

“I do have another creative app in the works. It’s on hold temporarily while I get Brushes ready for the iPad.”

Read the full interview over at Jabučnjak, a Croatian online Mac magazine. (bi-lingual)

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Feb 12 2010

Burry&Cannot: On fingerpainting

Matthew

I wonder if you need to be a fingerpainter to understand this brilliant comic by Benjamin Rabe. Or a carrot.

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