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Walter’s Art News
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Finger Painting
The art that graces the cover of this week’s New Yorker magazine is entitled “Finger Painting.” It’s the ideal name, since the artist created it using nothing more than his finger and trusty iPhone.
Artist Jorge Colombo designed the scene of a New York City hot dog vendor using an iPhone app called Brushes, software he only started using in February. Created by developer Steve Sprang, the $4.99 program lets anyone from amateur to professional draw and paint using the iPhone as canvas.
Note: I was there first!
Walter Logeman: Gallery – Outliers
I’ve done it. I have just put up a new display in in the
I am highlighting 10 prints I have not really put on display before – they are all from the Thousand Sketches, but they have not been in other shows as far as I recall.
They are all different in style & media, but I think they are a unified collection as well. When I was gathering them up it was clear to me – though I can’t explain it – which ones were in, and which were out, maybe their simplicity.
Here are a couple from the set, the first & the last:
This one is very early on in the Thousand Sketches – I recall thinking I can do a thousand in a year easily, I was churning them out in minutes. It proved more difficult of course!
This one is a meditation on how in my birth year 1944 Lee Krassner was painting gray slabs and destroying them. Unconsciously doing a conceptual art work in tune with the holocaust deaths in Germany.
Aleatoric iPhone Image
Somehow this was created with the jingling of keys & coins while the phone was in my pocket.
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu – Archibald winner 2009
A portrait of ARIA award-winning blind musician Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu has won this year’s Archibald Prize.
Guy Maestri’s close-up of Yunupingu’s face was the bookies’ favourite ahead of today’s announcement at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Sacred Places – Dorothy Simpson Krause
Website Beautiful Images
I have a book she co authoured I just realised, and have blogged about her work before. Found these, and am blogging again! Must be a sign to get on with something adventurous!
Images follow
Diana Meredith – digital artist
I am pleased to have found Diana’s blog. Some fine digital art.
She talks of going from Digital to analog. A process that has me stopped in my tracks right now!
Quotes & Image follow
Glass Houses
There are also some others I group, partly because of their stone tones, also because of the shapes. Distinctive iPhone finger painting. I came up with the name glass houses, linking the stones and the finger pointing.
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Net Works
I have been working on the iPhone making images for a while now. There is a swag of them on Flickr. It is fascinating how different apps (and I think I have them all!) lead me to create different styles. Here are two that I spotted today that I can imagine in a larger series, I am not sue how I made them now, I don’t think the “series” would be dependant on the methods used anyway.
