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Why iPad art is more than a passing fad — though you soon might smell it

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Check out the 10 finalists in the 2014 Mobile Arts and Creativity Summit and vote for your favorite.
Jaime Sanjuan Ocabo made this piece with Procreate.
By Linda Pahl, created with My Brushes and Percolator apps.
Deborah McMillion used Sketchbook Pro to create this work.
By Anton Muraviev using app Paper FiftyThree.
This scene by Wayman Stairs was made with the Snapseed, Alien Sky and Lens Light apps.
This was made with Procreate by Andrew Frey.
Dion Pollard created this work with app Artrage.
Created by Roz Hall using Fresh Paint.
By Nori Tominaga, created with the Brushes app.
Jeff Hebert made this with Sketchbook Pro.

Early doodles on the iPad looked a lot like this generation’s Etch-a-Sketch.

But in just a few years, after celebrated artists such as David Hockney have shown their iPad works in galleries, Apple’s revolutionary device has come into its own as a canvas.

The eclectic group of works above are finalists in the second annual Mobile Digital Art Exhibition (aka MDAC Summit 2014), an upcoming art-packed weekend of workshops and a celebration of digital art in Palo Alto, a stone’s throw from Apple headquarters. Take a gander and vote on them by July 31 for the People’s Choice Award.

You Won’t Believe This iPad Fingerpainting Of Morgan Freeman Isn’t A Photo [Video]

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Fingerpainting on an iPad isn’t taken too seriously by most the world but iPad artist Kyle Lambert has blown us away with some us his creations, and now he’s back with one of the most detailed iPad finger paintings we’ve ever seen.

Kyle’s incredible painting of Morgan Freeman took over 200 hours of work and an astonishing 285,000 brushstrokes to complete using just his fingers and the app Procreate. To give you a sense of the amount of detail that went into the project Kyle recorded a time lapse of the creation process so you can see each freckle and grey hair sprout up.

Take a look: