“Apple wants more people to deploy their technology in the name of art,” Anne Quito reports for Quartz.
“”On Jan. 7, it launched Start Something New, a series of free art classes in retail stores around the world,” Quito reports. “One of the planned workshops will teach users iPad sketching techniques, while another demonstrates how to use the iPhone’s sophisticated camera to capture artistic images—apparently, there’s more to mobile than moody selfies.”
“At the launch event in New York City, painter Tiffany Bozic demonstrated how she transformed an iPhone photograph of a bird into a luminous painting, using the iPad and the Apple Pencil,” Quito reports. “The Digital Plein Air Society in San Francisco, California showcases some stellar examples of outdoor paintings created on tablets. (Claude Monet would feel right at home here if he was alive today.)”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Even prior to the amazing iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, the iPad has proven to be an extremely capable device for drawing/painting:
Brilliant strategy. The stores are slowly transforming into places to learn more and more…
Crazy good painting!! 👍👌
That Morgan Freeman pic is really a drawing?!?!? Incredible technology and even more incredible artistry!
You watch this painting and you think, “Nope, not gonna waste the time going to art class. I’ll stick to stick figures.”
That’s incredible.
Crazy good technically, but in the end it’s still photo realism. There’s a lot more, and interesting things to art than photo realism.
Yeah, some artists reckon photo realism is a waste of time when we’ve got cameras. Use art to do something cameras *can’t* do!
But in the end it is more technically proficient and precise than abstract throwers of paint all over the walls that you prefer.
What a fucking joke! Apple abandoned millions of once loyal users when it dumped Aperture, but has the gall to spend it’s resources on this. Thanks once again Apple! Pricks!