358 - iPad Art

Day 358. I had a play with a new app called Brushstroke which can apply brushstroke effects, canvas effects, image manipulation, etc, to turn a photo into a faux artwork. It's interesting, and adds to a long line of apps like this.

117 - Modern Day Modigliani

Day 117. PlayArt is a fun little iPad app that let's you create artworks based on appropriating and rearranging bits and pieces from famous artworks to create new compositions. Here's one that would make Modigliani turn in his grave.

 

097 - Steve

Day 97. I'm a bit out of practice when it comes to drawing, but I thought I'd give it a go. Using a Jot Adonit stylus and a copy of 53's amazing app called Paper, I had a go at drawing Steve Jobs from the cover of the Walter Isaacson biography. It's not a great likeness, but if you're familiar with the book I'm sure you'd recognise it as Steve.

I actually used the upside-down drawing technique, as described by Betty Edwards in the book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. Still a great read even though it's many years old now. If you're into art and drawing, it's worth a read.

 

047 - Ornamentality

Day 47. These pretty mandala designs were made with an iPad app called iOrnament. It lets you create symmetrical patterns with amazing sophistication, especially if you splurge out for the 99c in-app purchase to unlock the extra features. I created one basic round mandala design then applied some randomising effects to it, to create the four variations you see here. All four of these design variations are based the same basic pattern.

Once I made all four of them I arranged them in this 4-up grid design using another app called Diptic, which can arrange multiple images in a single framed picture.

 

043 - Andy is Dandy

Day 43. For this self portrait I used a photo taken by my buddy Allan Psaila and imported it into an iPad app called Warhol DIY.

This app applies the same kind of artistic techniques that Andy Warhol used in his famous 50s Pop Art work; silk screening using photo dot screening, flat colours for underpainting, and colours deliberately out of registration, etc. I made two different versions, then imported them into Adobe Photoshop Touch and placed them side by side and cropped them into one image.

037 - Creative Quotes

Day 37. A good quote has the ability to distill a complex idea down to a sentence or two. You can quote me on that.

For today's creative task I made this poster of quotes about creativity using Comic Life. Although I've dabbled with Comic Life before, and had my students using it for their work, I should probably make more use of it... it's a very cool piece of software.

PS: You can click the image to enlarge it. 

035 - A Whole Lotta Vincent

Day 35. This image was made using an app called Play Art. It has a collection of arty bits from well known artists that can be dragged around and rearranged. It's good for getting students to look at the different styles and signature artworks of artists, and to play around with compositional ideas. Thanks again to Cathy Hunt from iPad Artroom for putting me onto this app.

 

028 - Staff Meeting by Numbers

Day 28. Back to school! It's apparently my annual birthday present... every year I seem to resume work on my birthday. Anyway, I was sitting in a staff meeting this morning and snapped a photo using an iPad app called Paper Camera. It does a line art treatment to the photo, and then I opened it in Photoshop Touch, duplicated the layer and hand painted the line art with brushes set to low opacity.

019 - Amaziograph Patterns

Day 19. I spent most of today working on the backyard renovation (coming soon as a Daily Create hopefully) so today's effort is a fairly simple one. This pattern was made using an iPad app called Amaziograph. It's got several very cool symmetry and patterning options, just pick one and draw away... It would be very useful when teaching kids about symmetry, patterning, repetition, etc.

Thanks to Cathy Hunt from the iPad Artroom for putting me onto this app.