Remember that chat between Matthew Watkins and me?

Well, here’s the movie:

iPhone mash – a ping pong painting from Benjamin Rabe on Vimeo.

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(…)”

First&Faves is a growing gallery on flickr.

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 galleries of single fingerpainters on flickr.

abstraction #1038, by Patricio Villarroel

New assignment group on flickr: fingerpaint THIS! picks a new photo every week…

Nénuphar by ansrun

…and sends you off to do your own interpretation on it.

by Sandy Schmidt

by PVB

by hgberk

Sandy Schmidt is your host over at 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.

by Mike Miller

by Hotel Midnight

iGraffiti blank, by Luis Peso

“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

[Update] Some more:

Pulpo granaino, by LaLegraNegra

iGraffiti, by Kevin Barba

Collaborative work has always been a main force for creativity and especially on the web stuff like cut&paste or, my personal favorite, coudals LayerTennis (do watch this!) is really inspiring.

And when it comes to fingerpainting, next to the fact of portability of the tool, the main reason why everybody seems to enjoy the whole thing is sharing and working together.

So that’s why Matthew and I started our own little game of fingertennis:

Grab it, mash it!

A rather soft service by me. Matthew shot a mighty return:

no.2

Drove me into the corner so I had to give up colors:

no.3

A surprising volley to the right side of the field was the answer.

no.4

I jumped and smashed back.

no.5

I thought I had him, but this one caught me unexpected:

no.6

My last chance was a stopping ball.

no.7

But not with Matthew!

no.8

Another stop rendered the referee unconscious.

no.9

We called it a draw.

Only to regain mental sanity, all of above went into a comic page at last.

the final

Doing things together is often more fun, and that’s why Sandy started the patchwork-project on flickr: within an infinite grid you claim your spot and start painting:

init

Over the time more and more people jumped in and created a fabulous set of characters:

The characters

Check out the actual state on flickr.

One of the greatest things in fingerpainting is that it stimulates collaborative work. So, the other week when I came up with this dreamy painting of good ol’ brushbunny,

Cloudhugging

Kevin replied in his own way. Nifty.

what goes up must come down

Luis Peso painted little red riding hood on his iPod Touch and left some room for others to join in:

This is what happens if you do that

More on Luis’ blog, all replies on flickr.