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!
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
[Update: the first version of the directory is online now.]
When we started this blog there was only a rather small group of fingerpainters and that’s why at some point we closed our listing. Now things moved on and there’s quite a big group of artists out there using their iPhones/iPod touchs to create art. We think, there should be one site aggregating all you great fingerpainters out there to date.
So today fingerpainted.it opens up it listing to create a broad directory of fingerpainters around the world.
Now, are you a fingerpainter? Wanna get listed?
Do you use your iPhone or iPod and your finger (stylus is fine, too ) to create art?
Do you have an online portfolio we can link to?
Did you create 20+ paintings in the last 6 months? (there’s a horde of bureaucratic bunnies waiting, validating fingerpainterness for this point)
If it’s a yes! yes! yes! you can either
register on this site and leave a comment including name, links, the optional credo (if you want) and style/favorite subject if possible
The style comes into play if we decide to list rather by painting style than by A-Z. What would you think works best? Any Ideas should be left in the comments, too.
In the aftermath of the art-mobile incident, Mia Robinson is the next to showcases fingerpaintings…
(…)including the first piece this artist created that ever inspired me (and caused me to be a dedicated follower/supporter of their work.) (…)The 2nd image by the artist is my all time favorite piece by them(…)
Not only did she select, but also annotated every piece with a personal view:
Self portrait, by Blu.Yanaka
“Blu’s work is VERY introspective. He is known for his surrealistic self portraits(…)”
Remember the reality crash fingerpainters had with real-world galleries? Patrico Villarroel, one of the very first and most prolific iPhone artists out there in the wild, answered in his own way: he started to curate his own galleriesofsinglefingerpainters on flickr.
One of the most interesting places on flickr ist the Painting a Week on an Assigned Subject group, initiated and moderated by Sandy Schmidt. Every week you get a new assignment, either subject, or in-the-style-of some-great-artist.
It’s week 31 one now and that indicates the huge reservoir of fine fingerpaintings to find. Subjects include things like crisp, Iranian election, Michael Jackson, distance; artists to resemble are Bacon, Goya, Hambling or Basquiat to mention some.
This weeks set is Medical Condition / Dorothea Tanning.
“Because no one has to suffer that I LOVE to paint” says Luis Peso …
iGraffiti, by Luis Peso
…and so he comes up with this idea: whenever you walk past a place in your hometwon that lacks some decent graffiti, take a pic, do the work and share it with others.
And then let others do some graffiti in your hometown, too I just loved the idea and jumped right in.
iGraffiti, by Benjamin Rabe
So everybody, share your hometown and have it painted all over
