Winning art created with a Pogo stylus (pictures)

For its 2013 Pogo Art Contest, Ten One Design, maker of three models of the Pogo capacitive touch-screen stylus, invited professional and amateur artists to submit original work created with a Pogo stylus and an iPad or other iOS device. As this gallery of submissions demonstrates, the stylus can be a mighty tool for creating digital art.

Three judges, themselves Pogo stylus users and mobile artists, picked one grand-prize winner, as well as one winner in each of four categories. "We?" by Salvador Navarro nabbed first prize in the "Current Events" group for works exploring world events, politicians, and the like.

Rita Flores' "Percolated Olga" won in the "Wildly Creative" category, which honored "out-of-the box thinking, such as using an app not necessary or intended for making art. Or using a variety of apps (app mashing) in a very creative way."

The artist, who works with more traditional media such as drawing and acrylic painting in addition to mobile devices, says that for an artist, "both the iPhone and iPad technology are very exciting because they are so new."