While most of us kill time on our commute by crushing some candy, listening to music or reading a book, one Japanese office worker takes it to a whole new level.
Enter Seikou Yamaoka. He uses his iPhone to create incredible finger painting portraits with the app ArtStudio. The married Japanese artist creates some of his art on an iPad mini or iPod Touch while on his long journeys to work. Yamaoka, who lives in Sakai in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, has become an internet sensation for his videos.
One of his most famous clips features him creating his own version of the famous masterpiece Girl With a Pearl Earring by Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer (can be seen below)
Yamaoka constantly zooms in and out, capturing an incredible amount of detail in his complex and beautiful digital paintings which take around three to four hours to complete.
But he doesn't shy away from the canvas. His Facebook page and YouTube channel reveals he paints actual water color portraits, too.
By Janet Duane
