Apple Asked Artists to Create Art Using iPhones and iPads — Results Are Stunning

January 18, 2016  |   Feature
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Apple’s “Start Something New” campaign aims to show the world how creativity is possible on an iPhone. The company commissioned eleven artists to create artwork using only an iPhone and various third-party apps.

The work ranges from impressionistic to realistic, with a variety of different scenes and inspirations. Here are a few examples:

Lieu Nguyen Huong Duong was born in Tra Vinh, Vietnam in 1975, He brings landscapes to life in a uniquely vivid way. Painting from memory, he freely dots vibrant layers of color until they match what he sees in his mind’s eye. Though he usually works on canvas, in Cherry Blossom, Lieu uses iPad Air 2, the Procreate app, and Pencil by FiftyThree to portray a blossoming tree.

 

Bernhard Lang (born 1970, Germany) shoots from a new perspective. Photographer Bernhard Lang likes capturing landscapes from a higher point of view. He takes this notion to the extreme in Bird’s iView by shooting with iPhone 6s Plus from a helicopter thousands of feet in the air and then editing with Adobe Photoshop Express. The shift in perspective provides a dramatic and humbling view of nature.
Bernhard Lang (born 1970, Germany) shoots from a new perspective.
Photographer Bernhard Lang likes capturing landscapes from a higher point of view. He takes this notion to the extreme in Bird’s iView by shooting with iPhone 6s Plus from a helicopter thousands of feet in the air and then editing with Adobe Photoshop Express. The shift in perspective provides a dramatic and humbling view of nature.

 

Jake Sargeant (MN8) created “Composing a sense of wonder” on an iPhone 6s.
Jake Sargeant (MN8) created “Composing a sense of wonder” on an iPhone 6s.

 

Cultivating a diffevent kind of rose. Kahori Maki sees energy in nature. To translate that concept into VISIONEO16, she starts by taking a photo of a rose with iPhone 6s. Then she imports the image into the Procreate app on iPad Pro, where she gives the flower new life by adding vivid colors and dynamic, free-flowing brushstrokes with Apple Pencil.
Cultivating a diffevent kind of rose. Kahori Maki sees energy in nature. To translate that concept into VISIONEO16, she starts by taking a photo of a rose with iPhone 6s. Then she imports the image into the Procreate app on iPad Pro, where she gives the flower new life by adding vivid colors and dynamic, free-flowing brushstrokes with Apple Pencil.

For more examples: “Start Something New”