Showing posts with label iphone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label iphone. Show all posts

Friday, 1 June 2012

Take your #art pen for a walk...

If you recall, the week before last I wrote about the free creative course being run by Kate England at MarmaladeMoon.com
One of the tasks was to write a word and hide it with doodles that ran to the edge of the page (I'm simplifying here, you need to sign up for more info ;)
I can't always hold a pen so though I managed to begin a doodle I wasn't able to finish filling it in...so I did another one with my finger on my iPad using Art Rage. I filled it in with Meritum Paint.

It reminded me of an art activity that I used to do with children - taking your pencil for a walk across the paper, the pencil never leaves the surface and you must keep it moving. Then you fill in the spaces in between with patterns. Some of the results were amazing and it tells you a lot about the person doing the drawing...and there are a variety of adaptations possible.

Anyway - layering was the next step. Photographing the doodle and adding to it, looking at it in different ways... I've kind of gone my own route here because I'm struggling with the heat and energy is almost non-existant.

Coincidentally I'd doodled, photographed and apped sketches earlier last month...so the images with this post are -
The ink pen doodle after apping,
The digital doodle after apping,
And some of the stages along the way including two of my earlier photographed doodles.

Friday, 25 May 2012

#Art Apps that add painted effects

The last few posts I've mentioned my fondness for adding painterly effects to the images I create - most recently with the 'Paint Mee' app.
Another painterly app is 'Auto Painter.' (There's Auto Painter ll now as well) This differs from Paint Mee and Artisita Oil in that there are no adjustments possible. These latter two apps let you tweak everything from brush size to colour palette etc. With Auto Painter there are four different filters and that's it. Apart from the option to mask the area you want the most detail added to, but I've not noticed this making much difference really...

Auto Painter one has four filters - Aquarell, Benson, Cezanne, and Van Gogh.
I'm posting this from my phone because I'm in bed, (had a bad week pain and fatigue wise this week.) so I don't know what order the app will post the images in. What I'm aiming for is -

1: The original photograph of a tree (taken with the iPhone 4S) which I then tweaked in Camera+ and turned into a painted version with Paint Mee.
2: The paint Mee version
3: Auto Painter Aquarell
4: Auto Painter Benson
5: Auto Painter Cezanne 6: Auto Painter Van Gogh (I've never seen this filter produce anything I like.)
7,8,9: Are screen shots from the app.

Friday, 18 May 2012

Creative Jumpstart - Marmalade Moon

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Kate England over at Marmalade Moon is delivering a free four week course via email about jump starting creativity.
In her own words;

"To make it easy to succeed, the course will be delivered to you in 8 tiny, to-the-point, practical and bite-sized chunks, so that it’s really easy for you to follow through and be successful. Creative Jumpstart is a free four week course, delivered to your inbox on Mondays and Fridays."

Although its already started, if you join now Kate will send you the tasks you've missed so far.
Here's the link for more info -
http://www.marmalademoon.com/creative-jumpstart-course/

And to jump right in and join, (it's all free remember) click here -
http://www.marmalademoon.com/club/

The photo above is of my notebook.
Yes, it's my iPad...but although I do have a sketchbook, my hands aren't often up to the task of using it. So my iPad and iPhone are my creative lifeline.
You'll need a notebook/sketchbook for the course. So dig one out if you don't already use one.
Or if your like me, create an album ready for your doodles and ideas, on the touch pad device of your choice ;)
Let me know if you join, I'd love to see what you create and I'm sure Kate will too.

Monday, 23 April 2012

Bright Abstract iPhone 4 size wallpaper

I love the Sketch Mee app - for it's versatility and the high res output, so I just bought Paint Mee. A new app means revisiting completed artwork whilst I get to know the new effects.
App addict that I am I also bought Kyoobik today too.
Here are a few of the initial results of my experimentation, resized to 960 x 640 for the newer iPhone screen.

Tuesday, 10 April 2012

iPhone wallpaper - abstract warmth

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I've just altered my phone wallpaper, something warm and cheerful to try to coax the Spring to return...and thought I'd share.

Fluid motion, artista oil and camera+

Friday, 3 February 2012

Making iPhone pics a higher resolution

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I was about to start gathering together tips for resizing iPhone images, when I decided to start with the studio talk section of iPhoneArt.com
And lo! It's all there in one discussion :)
Find it here;
http://www.iphoneart.com/studio_talks/303
Ah I love iPA...

Monday, 12 September 2011

The Creative Process - collaboration 2

Been a bad couple of days (after pretending to be 'normal' on Saturday) so my cunning plan to post each sun/mon has fallen at the first fence :(
No idea how these will post from the app, so I'll edit tomorrow. But I was determined to post before Monday becomes Tuesday!

@JimForADay over at iPA, you may recall, sent me a photo to play with. This post is a record of some of the stages I went through and my two favourite images after all the play/sketching/experimenting...what DOES one call the process?

I'll add the apps etc in more detail tomorrow when I can split the gallery up...& if I can recall them ;)

Monday, 5 September 2011

Contemplating creation #art

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My plan was to post the work process behind this digital art work...but time has run away from me, so I'll do a longer post tomorrow.

September's 'App it!' has begun and this is my first entry.
Taken from an iPhone photograph by Clint Cline (@clix2020)

Wednesday, 31 August 2011

The search for Peace - mandala #iPhoneArt

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I think this mandala began as the doodle I did for @karinSF
Kaleidoscope X and then photo studio then addlib then back through Photo Studio a few times. The border was added with Filterstorm when I was looking to see how big the image was. Seems Addlib only produces small resolution images too.

Finally had a medic lay hands on me for the first time since my op. I made an appointment to see my GP to check my scars/wounds. (What do you call them at this in between stage when the outside is more or less healed but the inside isn't?) Everything seems as expected, she believes it'll be after Christmas before I start to feel the real benefits of being gallbladder free and made a lot of sense. So although I didn't think I was worried about the added pain etc I must have been, because I feel better for having seen her.
Fibromyalgia - never a dull moment.
And it's a really stupid name for it. Even chronic pain syndrome would be better. It needs the word 'neuro' in there somewhere. Just saying... ;)

The excitement of a trip out of the house left me exhausted, so I haven't dipped my toes in the twitter water today. My apologies.

Monday, 29 August 2011

Re-learning - digital montage with apps

One of the artists at iPA is astonishingly good at creating the most wonderful montages on his phone. Intimidatingly good actually...it's a whole new way of working and I've struggled with it because I've been trying to approach it using old skills. Skills from the real world and my folders of collected images...I'm still struggling greatly with it but at least I've started to play and achieve some almost pleasing results...so here are the first to see the light of day. Feedback (if not too harsh) is as always appreciated ;)

And pop over to iPA to marvel at Clint Cline's (clix2020) creations.

Friday, 19 August 2011

Water my photo wallpapers

These are images that have all been posted here before, but given the Water my Photo spin. It's a free app and is fun to play with.
I've resized these (approximately) so that they fit the iPhone, well the old ones. Like mine ;) Let me know if they don't fit the #4 & also drop me a note if you'd like these in a different size.

If you do use these as backgrounds or textures, please attribute, thanks.