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Create, Share and View Gorgeous Artwork with These iPad Apps

If you enjoy creating amazing artwork or simply appreciate art in general, then you will love these iPad apps. They are designed for artists, collectors, and those who like to explore works of art from around the world.

Sketch and Draw

Capture your ideas and creations on your iPad anywhere you go. These apps let you sketch, draw, and design what’s on your mind.

Paper by WeTransfer

Your note-taker, sketchbook, and diagramming tool.

Paper by WeTransfer

Swipe to stylize

For those who want to take simple notes, draw sketches, or annotate photos.

This one burst onto the scene and immediately became the darling of artists and non-artists alike. It is just so easy to pick up and start using, with or without a stylus. Its free price tag makes it an absolute must-download, though of course, in-app purchases unlock even more features. It's simply beautiful on the iPad's retina display and a pleasure to use.

Why we love it

Paper is simple to use and comes packed with a ton of useful tools that make note-taking, photo annotation, and drawing easy.

Drawing Pad

Drawing Pad

PSQUARE

For those looking to doodle whenever and wherever you want.

Unleash your creative streak on a virtual drawing canvas with Drawing Pad! Drawing Pad is a cool doodling app that allows you to draw, sketch, doodle while you are traveling or just relaxing a home. DrawIng Pad Color provides a photo desk for creative editors and allows your to export your artwork.

You Doodle - draw on photos

Your full art studio editor

You Doodle - draw on photos

A full art studio

For anyone who wants a complete art studio solution for their iPad.

You Doodle provides you with all of the tools that you need to draw on photos or add text. And with an Apple Pencil, you can get even more accurate results as you write the perfect note to go along with that photo of your best friend doing something silly. The app has a ton of features and tools to make the editing process fun and easy, and it's a great app for just having some fun with your images.

Why we love it

We like You Doodle because it is fun and simple to use. There is not much of a learning curve and you can get some great results in minutes.

Paint and Create

That colorful masterpiece is just a tap away. Paint interesting patterns, eye-catching pictures, or realistic portraits with these handy tools.

ArtRage

ArtRage

Ambient Design Ltd.

ArtRage

For those who want a painting app that supports iPad Pro and Apple Pencil.

ArtRage offers the most advanced simulation of real paint on your iPad, taking full advantage of the iPad Pro and Apple Pencil! Get creative on a digital canvas with smearing, blending oils, delicate watercolor, and much more! ArtRage allows you to create your own masterpiece without the mess and expense.

Why we love it

ArtRage is a great, full-featured painting that that supports Apple Pencil.

HuePaint

HuePaint

Norbyte

HuePaint

For those who want a painting app with great features and Apple Pencil support.

HuePaint lets you create beautiful digital works of art using the colorful painting tools Tie-Dye Brush, Hue Brush, Shaded Brush, and Standard Brush. You will also find a powerful smudge tool that lets you blend and smoothen colors together, as well as an ordinary eraser. With Apple Pencil Support you can change characteristics depending on how you use the Pencil (pressure, tilt).

Why we love it

HuePaint helps you create amazing paintings with a terrific tool set.

Study and Learn

Learn about famous works, study techniques from the greats, and experience art through and through with these awesome apps.

DailyArt
DailyArt

DailyArt

Zuzanna Stanska

DailyArt is the #1 app to learn about art history. Every day, get inspired by beautiful classic, modern, and contemporary art masterpieces and read short stories about them. Join the community of art lovers for whom DailyArt is something that enlightens their day, every day. For free!

Do you want to know why van Gogh cut off his ear? Find out who "invented" abstraction? Learn more about women artists forgotten by art history? Open DailyArt and find out!

Download the app to:
- Every day, get one piece of fine art with a short story about it,
- Explore the collection of more than 4000 masterpieces,
- Read 1200 artist biographies and information about 600 museum collections,
- Explore carefully curated Collections and artsy City Guides,
- Browse everything with our advanced search engine,
- Use it in 23 languages!
- Join DailyArt Patron, a club for art history enthusiasts.

Furthermore:
- Add masterpieces to your favorites,
- Share everything with your family and friends,
- Subscribe to receive everyday features as push notifications,
- Use beautiful widgets,
- If your language is not supported, use the translate button to read everything in it."
- Set up your account and use DailyArt on multiple devices your phones, tablets, iWatches,
- Use in either dark or light mode,
- And what's most important: enjoy art!

Learn something new about art every day—you just need two minutes of your time. Get your daily dose of beauty and inspiration for free.

Loved by the users and praised by the App Store and international media, DailyArt is a must-have for all art lovers!

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Louvre Museum Full Edition
Louvre Museum Full Edition

Louvre Museum Full Edition

Trishti Systems Ltd

When it comes to the Louvre, you need a priceless companion to take you around with real expertise. The Buddy offers the choicest tours in an easily navigable format, and is the best way to navigate through the museum without losing your way.

Inside the app:

- Room to room navigation
- Interactive maps with top highlights
- Top Tours
- Astounding images from all viewpoints
- Day planner to set your own route
- Built in audio - download once and use anytime!

With these features, you can

* Enjoy room-by-room navigation at your fingertips!
* Plan your itinerary around to save invaluable time!
* Embark on one of the recommended guided tours.
* Tune into the audio descriptions of world-famous works.
* Enjoy high-resolution images from various angles.
* Get close to your favourite work and artist.
* Read insightful descriptions with amazing trivia

Once downloaded, you can use the app anytime, anywhere without internet connectivity. The app provides a number of remarkable tours of the Museum, both long and short, where within the space of a few hours, you can cover great ground, navigate the length and breadth of the museum without getting lost.

The app also provides you with the best three hour tour of the museum, which is basically a superb itinerary covering its top 15 highlights. But if you would like to deep dive, there are over 900 highlights to choose from that include:

- Greek antiquities, Venus de Milo, Victory of Samothrace
- Roman sculptures: Borghese gladiator, Borghese vase, Michelangelo's slaves
- Italian Renaissance paintings: Mona Lisa, Wedding feast at Cana
- North European paintings by Rembrandt and Van Duck
- Large format French paintings by Delacroix and Ingres
- Ancient Egyptian sarcophagi, mummies, monuments and scriptures
- The famous code of Hammurabi
- Decorative arts including Napoleon III apartments, arts of Africa and Islam

The comprehensive guide puts U in the middle of Louvre!
Get, Set, Go with hundreds of highlights to explore.

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Art Authority for iPad
Art Authority for iPad

Art Authority for iPad

Art Authority LLC

"Best iPad Reference App" -- App Store editorial team. Art Authority for iPad transports you to an enthralling, real-world art museum filled with works by over 1500 of the western world's greatest artists, from ancient times to today. 100,000 paintings and sculptures, organized into eight period-specific rooms, each room a gateway to a whole museum's worth of art. Choose an artist by movement or name, and become instantly immersed in an exhibition devoted just to that artist. Search for and compare different artists' works by title, subject or location, or just wander at random and get lost in the art.

"An experience unlike any other" -- The NY Times. Art Authority's works are professionally framed and hung on textured walls, accompanied by title, date and other details. Works are displayed chronologically, with previews of related items providing added context. You can learn about an artist's life and works, or travel beyond the bounds of a traditional museum and view and compare works in a full-screen slideshow or scrolling thumbnail display. You can see and understand the actual size of works through "Art Real Size," and with "Art Like This" you can even view exhibits of similar works.

Does something really catch your eye? Purchase a museum-approved reproduction through 1000Museums and have it sent to your home!

"Visually dazzling" -- MacObserver. There are period overviews, timelines, histories and videos. From the earliest creative pieces to the latest modern and contemporary works, Art Authority provides a stunningly displayed, carefully selected, well organized view of the western art world. It's part world-class art museum, part academic reference library and part digital coffee-table book. It's also part magic. An art musem like no other!

Art Authority features include:

- Access to gigabytes worth of art optimized for quality and download speed through our servers (works still under copyright come from authorized servers)
- Early, Renaissance, Baroque, Romantic, Impressionist, Modern, Contemporary and American rooms
- Dozens of artists per room, listed by movement or nationality
- Period overviews, timelines and histories
- A searchable index of all 1500+ artists, as well as for each room
- Searchable indexes of major titles, subjects and locations
- Art Real Size: instantly see and understand the actual size of works
- Art Like This: view works similar to the one you're looking at
- Art Near Me: search for art based on your location
- Shuffle: continuous random display of all art, or by period or genre
- Captions with work title, date, location and other details
- Hyperlinks provide access to in-depth information on artists, major works and locations
- Access to videos on hundreds of works
- Full-screen slideshow display, with user-settable transitions, Ken Burns motion effect, music
- Gallery-like, scrolling thumbnail view shows how works have evolved over time, aids in comparisons and exploration
- Offline access to works previously viewed
- Save works to Favorites or the Photos app
- Share works through mail and social networks
- Search for artists, locations, periods and previously viewed titles directly through the iOS search bar
- Purchase framed, museum-approved reproductions from 1000Museums.com

Also available for iPhone, and through Art Channel on Apple TV.

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Art Authority K-12 for iPad
Art Authority K-12 for iPad

Art Authority K-12 for iPad

Art Authority LLC

AN APPLE REAL-WORLD LEARNING SELECTION, with free lesson plans. A kid-friendly version of our #1 selling classic art app. The same enthralling, real-world art museum with works by 1500+ major western artists, from ancient times to today. Still nearly 100,000 paintings and sculptures. The same great features. But no worries about "age inappropriate" works. We've gone through the Art Authority collection and taken out access to nudity and other similar content. But we don't leave out the art world's most important works in these cases -- we display appropriate detailed views of the works instead.

All Art Authority's works are beautifully framed and hung on textured walls, accompanied by title, date and other details. Works are displayed chronologically, with previews of related items providing added context. Kids can learn about an artist's life and works, or take a trip beyond the bounds of a traditional museum and view and compare works in a full-screen slideshow or scrolling thumbnail display. They can view exhibits of works similar to any work they happen to like, and, with "Art Real Size" they can instantly see and understand the actual size of the works.

There are also period overviews, timelines, histories and videos. From the earliest creative pieces to the latest modern and contemporary works, Art Authority provides a stunningly displayed, carefully selected, well organized view of the western art world. It's part world-class art museum, part academic reference library and part digital coffee-table book. It's also part magic. A field trip to an art musem like no other!

Art Authority features include:

- Access to 20GB worth of art optimized for quality and download speed through our servers (works still under copyright come from authorized servers)
- Early, Renaissance, Baroque, Romantic, Impressionist, Modern, Contemporary and American rooms
- Overt nudity and similar content removed, replaced with detailed views on most major works
- Dozens of artists per room, listed by movement or nationality
- Period overviews, timelines and histories
- A searchable index of all 1500+ artists, as well as for each room
- Searchable indexes of major titles, subjects and locations
- Art Real Size: instantly see and understand the actual size of works
- Art Like This: view works similar to the one you're looking at
- Art Near Me: search for art based on your (or any) location
- Shuffle: continuous random display of all art, or by period
- Captions with work title, date, location and other details
- Hyperlinks provide access to in-depth information on artists, major works and locations
- Access to videos on hundreds of works
- Full-screen slideshow display, with user-settable transitions, Ken Burns motion effect, music
- Gallery-like, scrolling thumbnail view shows how works have evolved over time, aids in comparisons and exploration
- Offline access to works previously viewed
- Save works to Favorites or the Photos app
- Share works through mail and social networks
- Order framed, high-quality reproductions (US)

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Do It All

All-in-one art apps let you explore everything from painting to sketching to unique design. These apps give you all the tools you need.

Procreate

Procreate is a must-have

Procreate

Professional results

For any professional artist.

This is a deceptively simple app with a devoted following. The focus is on brushes (there are eight) rather than tons of different art tools. The interface is uncluttered and the app doesn't have the "bloat" associated with some of the more feature-heavy apps. Even with just a few tools in its repertoire, this app is a fantastic means for artists to create amazing works of art. It's also an easy-to-use app for doodlers.

Why we love it

Procreate is simple enough for anyone to use, but the best results will be made by those who know what they're doing. The app has plenty of powerful tools to help you create your next masterpiece.

Tayasui Sketches

Tayasui Sketches

Andrea Terdich

Doodle on what feels like real paper

For those looking to create the most realistic drawings on their mobile device.

Sketches is the most realistic, versatile and user-friendly sketching app designed for a mobile device. This exhaustive artist's toolbox helps users create dazzling sketches, cheerful paintings and smashing illustrations on the go. It has a ton of features and has stylus support.

Why we love it

Tayasui Sketches offers awesome tools for sketches, paintings, and more.

Inspire Pro

Love your paintings with this app

Inspire Pro

Get real results

For anyone who needs a serious app for painting and blending unique masterpieces.

Inspire Pro is a little bit different from the previous apps … this app is an oil painting app. The app includes five different brushes each of which you can load up with different amounts of paint. The app features an impressive 1,000 layers of undo/redo support. The app can send photos to Flickr and directly to your photos app. There is a Mac and Windows app available to do some of the larger exports. The app can be used to create some pretty fantastic looking paintings. Inspire Pro is in a class on its own and worth a look.

Why we love it

Whether you dabble in painting or are a full-fledged artist, Inspire will truly inspire. Even though it’s loaded with features, its customizable interface allows you to simply jump right in and start creating without having to go through a massive tutorial.

Design and Transform

If you want your own art studio that you can visit on your iPad anytime, check out these full-featured apps for your designs.

ArtStudio for iPad -Paint&Draw

Unleash your inner artist

ArtStudio for iPad -Paint&Draw

Feels like real painting

For those who enjoy drawing, sketching, and painting

ArtStudio is another option for those wanting to create artwork on their iPad. The app includes 30 brushes. These include pencils, brushes, a wet brush, an eraser, a smudge tool, an airbrush and many more. The app also includes a text tool to add captions or other text to your painting. The app also includes 17 drawing lessons. These are great for those that still need to learn how to draw effectively. The app will also simulate brush pressure to help your paintings look more realistic. The app can also insert various images onto six different layers. The app includes many more features and is a great alternative to the essential apps.

Why we love it

ArtStudio is a fairly simple app that is easy enough for anyone, even non-artists, to understand and use. However, if you do require some serious drawing tools, this app still provides quite a punch.

Astropad Standard

Astropad Standard

Astro HQ

For those who want an iPad drawing tool for Mac that supports most any application and stylus.

Astropad Standard lets you transform your iPad into an artistic tool for your Mac. It supports popular applications including Photoshop, Illustrator, and Pixelmator. Draw, paint, and animate with ease using your chosen stylus or Apple Pencil. You can also take advantage of features like retina resolution, palm rejection, pinch to zoon, and customizable shortcuts.

Why we love it

If you want an accurate tool for your Mac, Astropad Standard for iPad is a terrific choice.

Read and Explore

Where you are an artist or collector, immerse yourself in the world of art with magazine apps. Travel the globe viewing galleries, museums, pieces of artwork you never thought you would see.

Start Art Magazine

Start Art Magazine

Warners Group Publications PLC

Start Art is your introduction to drawing and painting in all media with simple exercises to get you started.

With demonstrations to follow including landscapes, pet portraits, animals, children, flowers and more, Start Art will help you to draw and paint pictures to be proud of.

Now in its 8th edition, Start Art will guide and inspire you, and includes help, advice and tips from selected top tutors with exceptional experience in teaching beginners.

Each demonstration feature details a list of materials that you’ll need plus suggested techniques to try first, followed by step-by-step instructions on how to complete each project.

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Sculpture magazine

Sculpture magazine

International Sculpture Center, Inc

A publication of the International Sculpture Center, Sculpture magazine is the essential source of information and dialogue on all forms of contemporary sculpture internationally. You can find our not-to-be missed coverage of contemporary sculptural art – from features, interviews with artists, reviews of current shows and other art criticism, to thought-provoking essays – in print and digital magazine, which is published six times per year.

This application is powered by GTxcel, a leader in digital publishing technology, provider of hundreds of online digital publications and mobile magazine apps.

1 year subscription for $59.99 or a single issue for $7.99.

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Art Almanac

Art Almanac

nextmedia Pty Ltd

Art Almanac is a monthly briefing on national art news, reviews and exhibitions. Since 1974, Art Almanac has proudly published the most comprehensive gallery exhibition listings in the country.
The magazine features extended exhibition reviews and a national roundup of current shows as well as a dynamic and comprehensive online offering.

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