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APPart – Vision Statement by Mel Harrison
We are delighted to publish our Mission Statement with regards to our updated and revamped APPart Column by Mel Harrison. Please take a moment to read this, we’re really excited to see where this will take us all, (foreword by Joanne Carter). APPart- vision statement Many apps across all platforms have the potential to be very powerful art tools. Never in our lifetime have artists been able to carry their complete art studio in their back pocket, via their digital device. The aim of this group is the highlight the artistic possibilities of Apps. This is an art group not just an apped photography group, though photography elements have their…
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APPart – Art Backgrounds with Mel Harrison
We’re delighted to publish Mel Harrison’s latest article to her Column, APPart. This time Mel laments her art education but questions the style of art teaching and why it can either inhibit or encourage your natural creativity. A great piece to ponder, over to you Mel. (Foreword by Joanne Carter). “My New Years resolution was to start contributing to my column here at The App whisperer on a regular basis. I opened this document in the Pages App and stared at it for a long time. I was getting a bit terse with myself because writing and art is something that usually comes freely to me. Then I…
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Mobile Photography – Tip Of The Day – Number 22
Welcome to another new section from your favorite mobile photography website and one of the most popular in the world. Today, we’re publishing our eighteenth Mobile Photography/Art Tip Of The Day to our brand new section of the site. Each day we publish a short quick tip to help you with your mobile photography, this may be related to editing your image, capturing your image, printing your image, all manner of things, across the complete photographic and art mobile genre – we’ll be featuring great mobile street photography tips, great blending tips, great cloning tips, we will cover it all from some of the greatest mobile photographers and artists in…
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APPart – Mel Harrison Gets Raw And Personal
My muse left! She packed up and disappeared into the night without so much of a note, let alone a forwarding address. I was left staring at a blank screen, zip… Nada… Nothing. Left to my own defences I pulled a pear out making school lunch for my little fellow who started school this week. The leaf grabbed my attention straight away because it is rare to find one on a supermarket bought pear. I gently put it aside and went about my day. It was a shitty day, hot weather with lots of stuff that drained me emotionally so I cut that beautiful pear in half… Then sewed…
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APPart – Copyright Issues Within Mobile Art And Apps – By Mel Harrison
It’s Saturday already and that means it’s time for Mel Harrison’s latest APPart article and this week Mel highlights a very important and potentially controversial issue regarding copyrighted material and the usage of it within your own artwork. Mel’s main frustration is with an app that she did not want to name but having written to them myself, several times and having received no reply I felt that perhaps we should, the app that Mel is referring to in this article is Paint FX and it is one of her favorites and one that she has used for a lot of her artwork to date. I’ll let Mel take it…
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APPart – Mel Gets Busy/ier…
This time of year is busy for everyone but for our wonderful Columnist Mel Harrison, this past Christmas has been even more busy than most. She’s literally been swept off her feet and has fallen in love, (again). I’m going to let Mel tell you all about it, over to you Mel (foreword by Joanne Carter). “You may have noticed I have been a little quiet lately…well it’s because of a new man in my life. He’s got the darkest eyes, great hair and is so cute when he wags his tail…yes I got a puppy! His name is Oswald and he is a Staffordshire Bull Terrier. Consequently…
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APPart – Mystic Cat Created
It’s Saturday again and at TheAppWhisperer.com that means just one thing, APPart, Mel Harrison’s new weekly Column with us. Every Saturday we will publish more of Mel’s incredible work which focuses on digital art and collage images. Each week Mel will be incorporating different ‘mainstream’ editing apps to inspire you to try some APPart of your own. All links to the apps used are at the end of this post. Over to you Mel…. (Foreword by Joanne Carter). Mystic Cat was a bit all over the place with apps used so there is no one feature app this week. Step 1 Mystic cat starts in Juxtaposer.…
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APPart – The Hungry Ghost – Challenged
It’s Saturday, so at TheAppWhisperer.com HQ that means just one thing, APPart – Mel Harrison’s new weekly Column with us. Every Saturday we will publish more of Mel’s fabulous work which focuses on digital art and collage images. Each week Mel will be incorporating a different ‘mainstream’ editing app to inspire you to try some APPart of your own. All links to the apps used are in bold in the content below. Over to you Mel…. (Foreword by Joanne Carter). ‘I have to start with a thank you to Steven Cooper and his Facebook group The Hungry Ghost. Steve provided the original image for this edit and has…
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APPart – Mitochondrial DNA
We’re delighted to publish Mel Harrison’s first article for her brand new weekly column with us, entitled APPart. Mel has written a wonderful tutorial that many women will certainly intimately understand and one that all men and women will marvel at, with her incredible creative process to produce the most fascinating art from something quite mundane. Over to you Mel. (foreword by Joanne Carter). Mitochondrial DNA is an image that has a lot of personal meaning to me. Mitochondrial DNA is passed down from mother to child virtually unchanged across the span of generations. As the mother of only sons it makes me sad that the DNA history…
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iPhone and iPad Art Tutorial – ‘The Littlest Egliid’ by Mel Harrison
Many people have been in awe of Mel Harrison’s outstanding character creations and rightly so, they are incredible. Mel is now publishing a children’s book with this character and many more included. We were desperate to find out how Mel created these characters will her iPhone and iPad and asked her as one of our valued Contributors to write a tutorial, she was more than happy to oblige. You will love this, what a way to start the week. (Foreword by Joanne Carter) ‘The littlest Egliid, the last of his kind, saw something shining in the distance, cautiously he approached and watched it for a little while. He poked it and…
