iPhone App Art Smorgasbord

Diva Lucy Lamkin chose three of her favorite apps to showcase here. They are fun and easy apps to play with - the only downside is that the app has the control rather than the artist. Of course, that could be an upside too. Not everyone likes to spend 20 minutes creating one image on her iPhone like I do.

As my friend and photoshop guru always asks "Is it a bug or a feature?" Depends on your point of view.

This app is called Photo Sketch - I never thought of using it with portraits. I did trees in snow most recently with it. This is a whole new take on the app.



PaintMee seems to lay down thick oil paint to create a photo painting out of any photo. I really like the wave.


Gasp, a photo app I don't own! PhotoTropedelic renders images into 60's Peter Maxx like pop art. The two women came out very interesting.

Taking It Slow With The iPhone

Sister Diva Judy Norton shares her latest iPhone art photos using Slow Shutter app. She photographed prayer flags in a strong breeze for the first photo and the same strong breeze moved these Hawaiian dresses on the laundry line to create a lovely abstract in photo #2. Photoforge app was used to lighten and optimize the final images.

Art That is Just Glowing

The Digital Dude , aka my handsome hubby Dewitt Jones, introduced sme to a new app - yes, I know I have more than my iPhone can hold, but I fervently believe you can never have too many apps. This app is called GlowMe. It places a glow around the lines of your photo. While some apps have a glowing lines filter, this one not only gives a neon tube look to the lines, it seems to supersaturate the image. And it's very cool. Check these out:

Beachin' iPhone Art

Here is a haunting series of beach images (and more) created by Brian Kavanaugh-Jones on his iPhone. Apps he used were Camera Bag, HDR, and Hipstamatic. Enjoy - I did.

Metamorphosis Through iPhone App DXP

Still exploring transformation and metamorphosis through butterflies with DXP combining multiple images. These are the latest. I feel like I'm onto something. Maybe not, but then again, maybe......

Butterflies and Transformation iPhone Style

Butterflies (and occasionally by extension, moths) are endlessly fascinating to me. I love to watch them. I love their energy (more floaty and serene than say hummingbirds.) And I love the mythic symbolism of transformation.

So I have embarked on my own exploration of transformation in the butterfly realm with my iPhone with these three images.

I ran a sink of water for dishwashing and answered a lengthy phone call. Upon my return, I found this moth had fallen into the soapy water and drowned. So I did what any humanitarian photographer would do - I took her picture. I used one of the filters in the Photo Studio app - can't remember which one, maybe sepia tone.




I took a photo of a butterfly, applied Toonpaint, and aged it in Pic Grunger.
I took the Toonpainted butterfly and combined it in DXP app with a Toonpainted photo of a mask to get this image.

In Toon with Toonpaint and Urbanity Revealed

Digital Diva Robin Robertis is at it again - she is using Toonpaint to make a recognizable scene new to us.
Check out these three images from across the pond.



And here's how she did them in her own words
image inToonpaint then
Layered in dxp with orginal pict.
To bring some color back
Over and over n over

Fun fun fun.

Then she pushed the artistic envelope with these two images, done the same way.


Brian Kavanaugh-Jones was also traveling and created these gritty urban scenes with Hipstamatic app. All of these images illuminate why the iPhone is now my favorite of cameras. (And I have a lot of cameras.)