PicsArt Monthly April Issue 2014 | Page 49

Amazing Primal Paintings Created with PicsArt In the vast ocean of PicsArt’s talented community, there are some especially gifted painters who shatter preconceptions of painting with a mobile app. Enter Roland Johansson (@rojo61), a painter who is as gifted with his finger on a screen as he is with oil on a canvas. If you had to categorize his style, the abstract expressionism of the 1930s comes to mind. He uses wide brushstrokes and patches of clumped colors to create bold portraits. The tactile texture of paint remains in his mobile art, and he uses texture as a tool for self-expression. His portraits are primal, and have the raw power of cave paintings. At a glance, one would never guess that these works were done on a mobile device, but they were, using PicsArt. Here we exhibit some of Roland’s finest paintings. 49| PicsArt Monthly