In a Pinch: iPhone Art App Wants Your Doodles

Nicole Martinelli ()

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Artist David Scott Leibowitz — whose impressionistic works for the iPhone were recently featured on CoM — teamed up with developer Andrew C. Stone for an app billed as the first mobile iPhone art gallery.

Called iCreated, the app ($.99 for the first week, $1.99 after that) comes preloaded with 18 works by Leibowitz. Other artists, like Russ Croop, who like to use the iPhone are also featured — and all of the works tell you what was used to make them, should you want to try your hand. Users can upload their own doodles to the public gallery and save or email them.

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While the iCreated selection can’t trump sites like Poolga, which offers hundreds of slick wallpapers from designers and illustrators gratis, compared to some paid iPhone wallpaper apps it offers a little push to try some art of your own and share it.

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  • http://www.leibo.net David Scott Leibowitz

    As the co-developer of “iCreated”, I wish to thank Nicole Martinelli, for her inclusion of our new apps release on “Cult of the Mac”. We are flattered.

    But we are not looking for Doodles. We are looking to present a very democratic venue for serious artists, who just so happen to be using the iPhone as a creative tool.

    Each artist must provide a link their own web site, or Flickr Photostream, where they must currently display a body of work in this new medium BEFORE they are included in the “iCreated” gallery.

    In two days since our release, there have already been “brick & mortar” gallery inquires about two of the iCreated artists.

    It’s true, we do not have the depth of artwork like “Poolga”, but we had to assemble our artwork before the apps launch, and we’ve been around for 2 whole days now……….

    Check back occasionally, and see the gallery grow!