Finger Painting

May 20th, 2021

The Brushes App was born in 2009 one year before the iPad. Jorge Colombo made this New Yorker cover waiting in line at a museum on his phone. I remember reading the story ( link below) and marveling at the creativity and technology.

Jorge Colombo – New Yorker Cover- created with Brushes App on IPhone

I dutifully downed loaded the app with the hope that I, too, could be creative while waiting. Then I forgot all about it.

This week, I joined a virtual guided tour of the Hockney-Van Gogh: The Joy of Nature exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and discovered that David Hockney, who is 83, uses Brushes too- and just like that I went down the Hockney and Brushes rabbit hole.

David Hockney

Screen shot from David Hockney Gallery

You can purchase a collection of his iPad art

Here is the link to Brushes in the App Store

There is a whole art gallery on the website- link below

Steve Sprang is the software developer to thank for all this creativity. You can follow him on Twitter.

My pretend New Yorker Cover

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