They combine the bright vivid colors of photography with the stylish flourishes of an accomplished painter.
But at closer inspection theses remarkable images are fact finger paintings drawn directly onto the screen of Apple’s iPad. Like a modern Etch-a-Sketch, the paintings are the creation of prominent New York artist David Kassan, 33, each painting of life models is drawn directly onto the iPad screen using his fingers. Continuing Mr Kassan’s work with hyper-realistic paintings, his iPad art is shaped by running your finger along the nine-inch by seven-inch screen of the £429 revolutionary device. Using a simple £5 ‘app’ called Brushes, Mr Kassan has moved his elegant and expressive painting skills onto the very definition of 21st century technology. The app allows the user to re-create accurately a paintbrush stroke and even creates bristly lines and broader touches to match an artist’s use of a canvas. And now Mr Kassan has begun traveling into Manhattan’s crowded Washington Square Park to paint random strangers pictures on his iPad.
‘I was the fifth person at my SoHo store in Manhattan to purchase the iPad,’ explained Mr Kassan, who lives in Brooklyn.
‘I was initially going to use the iPad as a demonstration tool for my previous work, which is detailed painted examinations of people.
‘I wanted to showcase to potential collectors how my work was created and the processes I go through to create it.
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