I got back from a 5 day trip to Washington tonight; I was attending Emetrics Marketing Optimization Summit and a WAA Board Meeting.

It was a long week, and I’m exhausted. I posted quite a lot if material at www.webmetricsguru.com, focusing entirely in that,

Yet…all of that time, I sketched, except….it was in my IPhone.

This composition has a lot of feelings in it, but maybe the one that stands out to me is “Freedom”.

Freedom to pick any color, transparancy, line, in real time. My work in pastels mimics, what I am able to do, here, buy better.

True, I don’t have a work I can physically sell ….or do I?

Kinda really enjoying the effects I can get while sketching on with the iPhone and using a stylus - I know I haven’t really mastered this medium but I feel that it’s more like the idea I’ve had for a while of walking around with a computer tablet that had power to create a full painting - yet something you could put in your pocket!

The fact is, the iPhone programs for painting and sketching fall far short of that - they’re not a replacement for Photoshop nor would you be able to really do Photoshop kinds of manipulations on an iPhone - it’s simply not built for it.

But I think the transparency and brush effects, while still limited, are just as valid, and sometimes, far more effective than watercolor.   And if I were so inclined, detailed drawings could be done using the iphone, as could the equivalent of Oil or Acrylic paintings - and I’m feeling as if this will be a wave of the future.

Artists, instead of bringing a paint set and easel, or whatever else they use, will just pull out their iPhone and do the sketching right on the spot, including portraits and especially landscapes.

I’d like to see more control over brush shapes and textures than any program currently has, along with the ability to create and import brushes from laptop to iPhone - and a bunch of other things like that - but definantely, Artists ought to be checking out the power of iPhone paint programs now, because I think they are the wave of the future.

It helps me to frame life against larger trends, like what’s happening now.

I think medium isn’t important, I’m not even sure Art exists anymore, because it’s not just about the artist, the story of Art is also about the audience.

I think, based on today’s audiences, emotional connection to the artist along with the story behind the artist AND that’s manifested in the works viewed are more important than anything else.

By the way, while feeling sorts aimless today, as the world economy collapses and as many web start ups begin cutting back, I went to Prospect Park to empty my mind, and sketch.

Except, my sketch book is not used much lately, I find painting with my IPhone more satisfying and expressive.

And what if, as people change, and the artist is one if those, we change too, and what we do, changes?

If that’s true, then what stays the same?

I think it’s the Journey.