New Yorker Cover Art, Painted With an iPhone

The cover of the issue of The New Yorker hitting the stands now was done by Jorge Colombo with the Brushes application on his iPhone. I don’t have it yet but will no doubt save it in my New Yorker cover collection.

It “made it easy for me to sketch without having to carry all my pens and brushes and notepads with me, and I like the fact that I am drawing with a set of tools that anybody can have easily in their pocket,” he said. There is one other advantage of the phone, too: no one notices he is drawing. Mr. Colombo said he stood on 42nd Street for about an hour with no interruptions.

Here’s a note at The New Yorker about this as well as a time lapse video of Jorge doing the drawing: Cover Story: Finger Painting.