The folks at Plai sent me the e.stylo to try and I am hooked. The e.stylo is a touchscreen stylus in the form of a familiar feeling wooden pencil.

Have you ever used or do you use a grid viewfinder? Many artists swear by using a grid viewfinder and use them to find a great compostion and record it to their surface.

As the year comes to an end, I, like many, tend to reflect on the last year. One thing I enjoy is looking back to see what posts readers of Today in Art like most. The best way I have of doing this today is by looking at the most visited posts.

Thicket is like holding an evolving work of art in your hands.  Lines of light dance across the screen as sounds echo and reverberate in reaction to your fingers.

Looking for a new sketchbook, I decided to venture out from the normal black hard cover acid free books that I usually buy.  I spent some time looking and reading about various sketchbooks and found many great choices.  I realize that there are many more options than I have listed here, so if you know of an awesome one that I missed, please let me know in the comments below.

While writing 22 Beautiful & Creative iPhone Apps I found many wonderful apps exploring different aspects of user interaction with art, imagery and sound. Experimental Art applications like these are not new, but user access to them and how they interact with them is.

Creative iPhone, iPod and iPad apps

I decided to write a post about iPhone apps to explore how art is influencing the world around us.   I set out to find apps that are creative and imagery to interact with the user in a unique way.  Games immediately come to mind when I begin my search, but I started to see amazing utility apps like clocks and music generators that have been completely re-imagined.

I am getting pretty excited about the tools being developed for the iPhone / iPod and have been looking into which of these tools are the best for artists.  As I am looking are, I found the apps that I listed here.  These are apps that I have seen people using and praising the most.

A few weeks ago I posted a quick review of Sketchbook Mobile for iphone/ipod.  Since then I have found some amazing work that has been completed on these devices.  These drawings use various iPod / iPhone apps to arrive at the final product.  I can’t even imagine the work that went into each of these.  Kudos to these and other iPhone / iPod artists out there that are pushing the boundaries.