Mobile Digital Art

Section 1 The Painters

The Painters are at the core of this movement, this worldwide group of traditional artists who all simultaneously discovered a new passion for painting on their iPhones. This group knows no geographical boundaries; they are tied together by the web. The established artists were joined by others learning these new tools, so one’s stature in the art world mattered less here. All that matters is the art.

The talented artists Xoan Baltar and La Legra Negra from Spain first showed the way on Flickr, and Patricio Villarroel in Paris has shown us thousands of ways since. Famed artist David Hockney in the UK and Jorge Colombo ...