I LOVE Apps! I have so many of them they take up massive space on my iPhone and iPad. But I LOVE them! There are incredible things out there for the creatively insatiable like us.
I’m a digital artist… duuuuh. But I have found some amazing apps that I think are brilliant and monster kudos to their creators who took their time and brilliant genius to get them into the app store so I can do and create ridiculously cool things even while in a coffee shop sipping deliciousness or waiting for whatever while chilling in a warm breeze on a park bench.
Perhaps late night insomnia has kicked in and you just finished a game of Words with Friends so the tools are right in your hands to create something artistic. I’ve even posted some of my favorite self-portraits created during bouts of minor insomnia on instagram. I usually hashtag it insomnia. But really it’s simply a late night bursting forth of creativity and with device in hand and I succumb. *BTW, I’m working on an APP CLASS I’ll be launching soon too so be sure to get on the mailing list and be the first to know. 🙂 (Sign up top right!)
This particular image is a hybrid of one brilliant app and a pretty amazing website I was turned onto– mrdoob– http://www.mrdoob.com. I did this drawing awhile ago on mrdoob and saved it to my photo stream so I could open it later in various apps. Then I opened it in Phototropedelic to add more artsy elements. Phototropedelic is a super hippie flavored App that makes me insanely happy. Simply do a little button and numbers selecting in there and bingo bongo BOOM. Phototropodelic reminds me of Peter Max, one of my all time favorite artists. Another is Erté. Of course the two could not be more opposite. Art is entirely subjective anyway. And why am I suddenly singing Sly Stone Everyday People in my head? 🙂
OK, back to the image– In this case I did later open it up in Adobe Photoshop where I dialed in some color and a did few more minor adjustments. Though most of the time for app art I do it all entirely in apps. You can too!
I keep learning more and more each day as I play with these fabulous tools and criss cross them all over the place. It’s easy, it’s fun and the creative possibilities are mind-boggling. I like to create for joy, don’t you? It’s also how I learn. Trying things out, seeing what will happen. WHAT IF… That’s the game. If you haven’t yet why not play it with me? I’d love to see what you’re “app” to, please share and I just may post it here! xxxooo I’ll keep you posted on the app class too!
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