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Awesome Steve Jobs portrait made by injecting bubble wrap with paint

by Michael Grothaus (Mar 20th, 2013)

An artist by the name of Bradley Hart has created an amazing Steve Jobs portrait by injecting paint into individual nodules of bubble wrap. As Benjamin Starr at VisualNews describes: Hart's newest works -- mostly portraits -- are exceptional in the way they use each bubble in the wrap as ...

Daily iPad App: Deco Sketch Pro is a unique photo editor and graphics creation tool

by Mel Martin (Mar 15th, 2013)

Deco Sketch Pro is a universal iOS app that features geometric effects that can be added to images you have, or you can start from scratch. The US$2.99 universal app includes 10 brush types with 130 variations. You can extract color from a photo and use it as the base for an effect. You can ...

Inspire Pro 1.3 adds Retina graphics support, price drops to $0.99

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 9th, 2012)

Inspire Pro, an artist-quality painting and sketching app from Kiwipixel, was recently updated to support the Retina display of the new iPad. Version 1.3 has a faster rendering engine, better brushes and two new high-resolution canvas sizes that are compatible with the iPad's display. To ...

Daily iPad App: Paper by FiftyThree may make you an artist

by Steven Sande (Apr 6th, 2012)

I am not an artist. I love art, but don't have the necessary skills (except for those I've picked up on my own) to really do anything that I'd want other people to see. When some of the early iPad drawing/painting apps started coming out, I eagerly bought them to try, but found that my lack of ...

Painting a Steve Jobs tribute live

by Mike Schramm (Nov 15th, 2011)

This video was sent along by reader Danny B, and while we've seen a few works of art paying tribute to Steve Jobs, we haven't really seen one made live in real time like this. Just trust me -- you can watch the video below, and I think it's fascinating how the art goes from just a few brush ...

Multi-Touch finger paintings merge art with tech

by Chris Rawson (Sep 16th, 2011)

Anybody can fingerpaint -- it's pretty much a standard part of kindergarten curriculum -- but artist Evan Roth took it a step farther with his Multi-Touch finger paintings. (Heads-up: some salty language on his site). By putting tracing paper over his iPod touch, paint on his fingers, and ...

Macs as artist: The interactive robotic painting machine

by Steven Sande (Aug 19th, 2011)

Artist and composer Ben Grosser sent us a tip about his latest project, an interactive robotic painting machine. The machine has three computers that run python code written by Grosser, two of those being computers for those who "Think Different" -- a Mac Pro and a MacBook Pro. The process is ...

TUAW's Daily iPad App: Doodle Buddy for the iPad

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jul 18th, 2011)

Doodle Buddy is a free finger-drawing app for the iPad. It brings the fun of childhood finger-painting to the iPad as well as the grown-up need to make quick sketches to share with friends, family or co-workers. For your children or the child inside all of us, Doodle Buddy lets you draw with ...

Review: Crayola ColorStudio HD and Griffin iMarker pair up for coloring time

by Michael Rose (Jun 5th, 2011)

When Griffin and Crayola announced their collaboration back at CES in January, the idea of a combined stylus and drawing/painting iPad app for kids -- with the power to distinguish between finger touches and the tip of the stylus -- sounded fantastic. The flexibility of the iPad for keeping ...

Nomad capacitive brush now available for iPad

by Chris Ward (Feb 21st, 2011)

Some remarkable work has already been produced by artists using iPads -- David Hockney even mounted an exhibition in Paris of his iPad and iPhone paintings -- and the release of the new Nomad Brush should only increase their creativity. Until now, artists have been limited to using their fingers or ...

Remote Pallette lets you paint on your iPad with colors from your iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Oct 14th, 2010)

The story a while back about connecting an iPhone to an iPad for a game of darts was pretty interesting, and here's another one in that vein: a new app called Remote Palette is universal for both devices, and will let you "paint" on the iPad, while controlling the colors used with the iPhone. "Dip" ...

Found footage: Creating photorealistic portraits with a finger and an iPad

by Steven Sande (Jul 5th, 2010)

Artists are taking to the iPad like ducks to water. The device seems to be a natural tool for many artists to use, and the public is now starting to see the fruits of the relationship in the form of some startling and beautiful digital art. Kyle Lambert is a perfect example of an artist who ...

Layers released for iPad

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Apr 8th, 2010)

When I was at the Apple Store on Tuesday test driving an iPad, the girl next to me with her parents was asking about drawing programs she could use. I immediately suggested Layers to them, which we initially reviewed last summer. There are several excellent drawing programs for the iPhone, but ...

First Look: Layers for iPhone, natural media painting app

by Brett Terpstra (Jul 20th, 2009)

The very talented Ben Gotow has just released a brand new iPhone app called Layers, his third now after Mathomatic and NetSketch (iTunes links). Layers, not to be confused with the innovative screen capture application on the Mac desktop, is a natural media painting app for the iPhone. Stating the ...

Can you believe it? New Yorker cover done on iPhone app.

by Mel Martin (May 25th, 2009)

Looking at the cover of the June 1 New Yorker Magazine it is pretty hard to believe that it was created with a US$4.99 app on an iPhone. The app is Brushes [App Store] and it allows painting on the iPhone /iPod touch screen using your fingers and a variety of brush styles. If you have a Mac, you ...