b-wired:iPhone-art-on-the-go by David Hockney

// November 2nd, 2009 // b-wired // Kara

Digital photography and photo-manipulation (aka photo-shopping) are now bona fide Twenty-First Century art genres. But what would you say if we told you that you can now create artwork with your iPhone? Better still, the artist who’s pioneered the iPhone-art-on-the-go genre, is 72 year-old critically acclaimed artist David Hockney! Don’t you wish he was your grandpa?

David Hockney uses a nifty little app called ‘Brushes’ to create his works, a natural media painting application that features an advanced colour picker, several realistic brushes, multiple layers, extreme zooming, and a simple yet deep interface. The Bradford born artist sees the iPhone as offering a new challenge, creating work on a small canvas that requires you to think about composition, texture and colour. It also offers the possibility to share artwork, work in progress and ideas instantaneously with anyone in the world. He actually has two i-phones full of works. Pretty cool, huh?

So yes, there is quite literally an iPhone app for everything, which is fantastic news for those amongst us who have inherited two left hands (and nope we’re not talking about our artists here!)

There’s also a pretty cool list of other iPhone apps for artists on Be your art

If you’re using any of these apps, why not email your creations over – go on, you know you want to!

  • Pretty cool. I have been using PhotoStyler and then PhotoShop since 1994 to make art. I have used MicroSoft Paint to make art since 1998. I have been making art on paper since 1980. My first creative medium of any consequence was poetry. I am Googleable and Wikipediable as well as on b-uncut. It is high time digital art was recognized. My approach to digital manipulation of photographs is usually to do as little as possible to manipulate them besides color, but each work of art has its own inner needs that must be met. Some prefer diamonds, some prefer pearls....
  • That's really cool Mike - thanks for commenting on the blog!
  • Nicky
    Amazing. This is the new Art. And if we think that the painter has a just a small screen to paint on is even more incredible.
    I use an app called SketchBook Express....but I only draw stickmen...oh and I colour them as well! I'm not really good at painting
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