{"id":2009,"date":"2010-05-31T22:10:06","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T12:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=2009"},"modified":"2010-05-31T22:16:28","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T12:16:28","slug":"ipad-app-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=2009","title":{"rendered":"iPad App of the Week:  Brushes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re looking for an app on the iPad to engage your creative side then <strong>Brushes<\/strong> is\u00a0 worth checking out.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the beauty of the iPad is of course its very satisfying and responsive touchscreen interface and Brushes really plays to this strength.\u00a0 For $10 bucks you get a pretty simple but effective finger painting application that lets you doodle illustrations on a canvas.\u00a0 There are a range of different brush patterns and the format in which you choose your colour palette, brush type, layer and so forth will be instantly familiar to anyone who has used Adobe Photoshop before.<\/p>\n<p>I had some fun messing around with it and drew a couple of portraits.\u00a0 Jen also had a crack at it and even though she says she&#8217;s not very artistically inclined, I thought her landscape painting was pretty nifty too.<\/p>\n<p>Brushes is an excellent app to mess around with when you&#8217;re looking to unwind and its very cathartic to play around with.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2010\" style=\"width: 563px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/man.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2010\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2010  \" title=\"man\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/man.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"553\" height=\"737\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/man.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/man-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 553px) 100vw, 553px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2010\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Man by Edo Inoue<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2011\" style=\"width: 563px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wizard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2011\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2011  \" title=\"wizard\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wizard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"553\" height=\"737\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wizard.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wizard-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 553px) 100vw, 553px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2011\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wizard by Edo Inoue<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2012\" style=\"width: 624px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sheep.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2012\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2012 \" title=\"sheep\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sheep.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sheep.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sheep-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2012\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black Sheep Wins by Jen Inoue<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re looking for an app on the iPad to engage your creative side then Brushes is\u00a0 worth checking out. Part of the beauty of the iPad is of course its very satisfying and responsive touchscreen interface and Brushes really plays to this strength.\u00a0 For $10 bucks you get a pretty simple but effective finger &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[539,538,537],"class_list":["post-2009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-apps","tag-brushes","tag-ipad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2009"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2021,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions\/2021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}