Since then, as in 2010, Steve Jobs introduced the first model of the iPad, Apple Inc. has sold more than 250 million devices around the world, and the tablet has survived six updates.More recently, on its ability to pay attention and artists. Today easel on the iPad changed such eminent artists as David Hockney, Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin, and digital pictures in printed form or on the screens of tablets exhibited in the best museums in the world next door to the classics. The new craze is alien and former President George W. Bush famously drawing on iPad.
Art market is also ready to accept new talent. Since 2013, together with the house Phillips site Tumblr conducts auctions of digital art "Paddles ON!". "Flatbed" Art sold on the site Saatchi Art , Fine Art America and Sedition . In the last two to publish their work and set a price for it can be anyone.
Forbes published a gallery of the most interesting artistic applications and most popular artists who refused to canvas, brushes and palette in favor of the screen and stylus.
Rose Hall
Applications: Procreate, Brushes, Sketchbook Pro and InkPad
In 2010, Hall had read an article about the artists who created the works on the iPhone, and since then "deliberately turned his back on the canvas." The artist draws both on the iPad, and the Microsoft Surface, using different applications for different purposes. For example, Procreate - when necessary effect of acrylic and oil, and Inkpad - for clear lines and shapes.He uses both stylus and fingers: "This reinforces the emotional bond with the product as if going back to my childhood, when we were all something to paint hands" - he explains.
Hall won fame for psychological self-portrait and fine work with chiaroscuro. British portal The Independent called it even «iPad-Picasso." To create a portrait in the Hall takes 6-8 hours, his works have been awarded prizes and exhibited in Europe, America, Canada, China and Korea.
Benjamin Rabe
Applications: any application, often uses the "eraser"
Rabe - a pioneer of "art 2.0". Back in high school, he freely mastered several programming languages, and in 15 years has created his first work on the arch-device Atari 600xl via ASCII-graphics. On the iPad it draws mainly fingers, using the minimum number of colors and visual elements and preferring all other instruments "eraser". To start on a contrasting background, he gets a couple of solid thick lines. Based on them, he comes up with the story: for example, in order to portray a man, he draws an eraser on one of the lines of his silhouette, face, hands and other parts.
Rabe - one of the founders of the "International Organization for digital artists» (iAMDA), edit its network fingerpainted.it , and also publishes the magazine The Nimble.
Cynthia Wick
Applications: Brushes
Former vice-president of marketing at 20th Century Fox retrained in the artist after the birth of her second child and moved from his hometown of Los Angeles in the small town of Lenox, Massachusetts. Cynthia full house studio where she paints oil paintings, but to carve out time for them is not always possible. But every day she creates drawings on the iPad, for example, while waiting for the children in the car after school, or a cup of coffee during breakfast. To think about the long story is not necessary - are the inspiration images of her daily life. Her drawings are published in The New York Times and Huffington Post, exhibited at solo exhibitions in galleries and selling well. One of her most expensive works created on the iPad, was sold for nearly $ 400.
David Scott Leibowitz
Applications: iCreated, Kaleido, You Gotta See This !, Juxtaposer, Luminancer, 123D Sculpt and others.
Author of the book-manifesto «Mobile Digital Art: Using the iPad and iPhone as Creative Tools», published in 2013, David Scott Leibowitz to prominence in the late 1970s, thanks to the photo and video collages created from cells Polariod. In a similar manner to the Dadaists he does today: David even named «iPhone Duchamp" after one of his most iconic works.
Following the principles of Dada, he prefers not to create from scratch, and takes as its basis the finished image. For action with the background he advises Kaleido and Pic Collage, for panografii a la David Hockney fit You Gotta See This !, you can experiment with composition in Tiny Planet, and "those who want to polepit clay without dirtying your hands" should pay attention on the 123D Sculpt. Leibovitz has developed and own application - iCreated, which collected his favorite features.
David Newman
Applications: Sketchbook Pro and ArtRage
A rare event in Silicon Valley without the participation Newman official artist resident nearly half of companies with headquarters there. Before his tablet posed the "father of the Internet" Vinton Cerf, one of the founders of Apple, Steve Wozniak, a scientist Howard Rheingold and even Queen Rania Al-Abdullah.
In the 1970s, when the use of cameras in the courts of America has not been authorized, Newman worked in the genre of the judicial sketches. Today, Newman recognized that work on mobile devices like him more than sitting with a pencil in his hand: «iPad replaces an entire studio, it has all the right tools and these colors, for which the artist under normal circumstances should mix the paint to infinity."
Vera Paul Broadbent
Appendix: Sketchbook Pro
What would Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Velasquez Diego, Jacques-Louis David, or Van Gogh, whether they have a tablet? A series of works with the eloquent title «Digital Classics» - said the young artist from Liverpool. With 10 years Gender engaged in computer graphics, with 17 years of experience in the video game industry.
His works have easily recognizable style, which the artist calls "polytope" (from the English. Polygon - a polygon). To develop a multi-faceted art of painting Paul took several years. To repeat it, you need to have a good sense of space and skill development of 3D-modeling: "Every time I mentally transported back into the picture and try to understand the physical location of each object relative to another," - he writes.
Paul works price starts at £ 150. Now he is working on a series devoted to Russian artists, and says he feels a great responsibility, because it is very fond of Russian art.
Helen Goldberg
Appendix: ArtRage
PhD, a practicing psychologist, teacher and science journalist Helen Goldberg in 2009 and decided to master the craft of the artist. "I never start drawing with a clear plan in mind. Just give hands dance "- says Goldberg. Sometimes it's paired with dance artist who inspires her - mostly Viennese secessionists, abstract artists and cubists. But more often then a riot of colors, lines and shapes, creates itself Helen, do not give a clear analysis. For example, it paints over the first layer by using the roll can then add the oil-based paints, as they draw and watercolor ink strokes charcoal and pencils, and then adds the gold plating, foil, and other elements.
iPad-picture Goldberg were presented at various art festivals, some of which are on permanent display in the Gallery of Contemporary Art ACCI in Berkeley, what happens to the "Tablet artists" infrequently. In addition, it works adorn the hall's flagship Apple store in San Francisco.
Jonathan Gruel
Appendix: Procreate
Successful 45-year-old artist from California may well continue to work in art galleries, but in 2008 due to an accident, Jonathan, born left-handed, lost the index finger of his left hand, and then numb the other four fingers.
When his family gave him a iPhone, the artist has opened a new field for creativity, but after buying a tablet and began to work again participate in exhibitions. His works he calls "the thoughts that appear at their fingertips. Jonathan gives drawing lessons in high school and arranges workshops for children.
Marcella Donadzhemma
Applications: Brushes, Lo-Mob and others.
Italian artist not only draws in Annex Brushes, she released a picture book in the genre surreal fairy tale. "The Red Wig" - a paradoxical story about female insidiousness with a detective story: disaffected Valerie kills famous actress for fire wig, and with it, according to the instructions fortuneteller, seeking all dreamed about. But the money and the fans do not bring happiness, it disappears at the end of nowhere. "I wanted to say: do not try to change your life with a new haircut, and I was inside. But of course, if you want to start with a wig, better yet buy a new "- laughing Marcella.
Rostislav Tugurt language
Appendix: AppArt
Czech painter, sculptor and architect famous thanks to technology AppArt: his collection of prints created using the graphics on the iPad, offset printing techniques and methods of classical lithography, made a splash at last year's "The tablet in stone: lithograph XXI Century" in Prague.
"In order to achieve good results from the latest advances in digital art, it is important not to forget the already existing" - says Tugurt language. First, create a drawing on the tablet, then the result is sent to the web offset printer, then the resulting image is engraved with lime. The whole process in reverse can be seen here . "So we put together the artistic technique of three centuries".
Tugurt language work can be purchased on its site . The price of some of them is almost $ 2,500.