iPhone, iPod and iPad fingerpainting blog

"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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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!)

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.

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 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 by Matthew Watkins

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

Burry&Cannot: On fingerpainting, originally uploaded by Benjamin Rabe.

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

Now that the excitement from yesterday’s iPad reveal has died down a bit (and only a bit)…

Let’s talk shop, shall we?

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It’s…

“…a fascinating, international online exhibition curated by John Bavaro for the Art Academy of Cincinnati by request of the editorial staff of the Incliner.”

John Bavaro, artist and educator at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, has put together an online gallery, featuring many fingerpainters from around the world:

“They are an eclectic mix of artists, with some already well established in their art careers,and others just emerging as students, etc. The commonality between them all, however, is a sort of egalitarianism of a “new-century medium” with artists bound together by a functional device (the iphone/ipod), that is beginning to transform the way we make and see art. “

I like that.

There are so many people out there starting to think about doing their own art-show of iPhone art now, so today we’re starting a new feature: we plan to build up a database of past and upcoming shows. You can even grab the feed of shows via your rss-reader or ical. So please: check out the list, and if you plan to do an exhibition, feel free to add it via our form.

Please take a look at our newly revamped directory. I added paintings whenever the artist allowed sharing over on flickr. Also for new submission you can use this form now. I’ll work on flickr feed based slideshows next, for now let me know what you think of it, what’s missing, etc.

Here is a list of Red Cross and Red Crescent  chapters links to make donations

It’s time to start climbing the learning-curve: so far I tried to cover stories and trends in fingerpainting I am focussed on, or I stumble upon. But I’m sure all the readers of fingerpainted.it have own ideas on what they want to read about, maybe write about or what feature they want.

Let’s share some ideas.

What do you miss? What do you want to read about? What pets should be fingerpainted more often? What is to discuss?

<–See that red tab on the left? It’s the one saying ‘feedback’.

I’m test-running a uservoice-forum here. If you have the time, give it a try, share some ideas, rate others, let’s see what bubbles up. Thank you