SpinArt

Michael (Admin) | Sep 23, 2008 Entertainment

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(3 votes, average: 4.67 out of 5)

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You long to be an artist. You have all this pent-up creative energy bubbling inside you, and you desperately want to unleash it upon the world, but there’s one tiny problem: you are a talentless loser!

Apparently Brian Smith feels your pain. He created SpinArt which gives pretty much everyone, monkeys included, the ability to splatter out some pretty cool abstractions on a spinning canvas. Just swipe your finger to set the canvas in motion, choose a color and a brush (splatter) size, and start plying your craft.

It really is that simple. With the canvas spinning, you can hold your finger in one place to make circles, you can drag it outward from the center to make spiral lines, and you can make up any number of other maneuvers that capitalize on the canvas rotation. Or you can just do your thing on a still canvas if circular motions just aren’t your style.

SpinArt is a nice app that I think a lot of people will have fun with. You can save your finished work to your camera roll and your work is always saved if there’s an interruption but, like most iPhone apps, I suspect it’s a work-in-progress. Here’s my wishlist of features for future updates:

Undo
Select canvas color
Import image
Non-splattering brushes
Maintain canvas spin rate (so that it doesn’t slow down)
More colors
Reposition canvas (so that circles can be made in other areas)

You’ll undoubtedly be pining for Undo in short order, but even without all of these features I think SpinArt is worth $1.99, especially if you have kids who like to play around with your iPhone. You’ll enjoy it, but the young ‘uns will probably have a blast with this app.