Right... Suppose Lumia by Mokia$oft is not going to pass the following comment, so here you go...

"Interesting story, I've been enjoying the artwork on maemo.org "look what I drew on my phone" for years and it is very interesting to learn how Toni grew into painting by exploring digital technology first and by further exploration learned to combine the different media both traditional and digital to ultimately throw off limitations of those methods all while proving that the result can proven warm and hearth rendered result.

"Which apps would you recommend to other Lumia artists and why?"

Lumi artist? Nokia - Microsoft, seriously don't play that guitar.

If it wasn't for the N900, the Lumia story would have no significant place in this story.

The camera and post processing options offered by the Lumia are so generally available and generic these days that any mid range smartphone could eventually replace it for this task. If you were to talk about Lumia display color calibration and maybe I'd buy the story Lumia artist tag, maybe.

But out of respect you wouldn't call an artist after the brand of paint, paper or pencils he is using, would you?

The true work is being done on paper and on the N900's resistive screen using professional software which by no means one could operate on any Lumia.

As far as the artistic enabler N900 goes: history shows you have effectively tried to kill it.

The oportunity to promote the new way to take pictures, even to grow as a camera brand, and combine a graphic artists mobile workstation all in one device has been lost in the Lumia deal. Emerging new possibilities have been dumped in the mainstream "good enough for the masses" basket.

How many more people would have been inspired to just draw or paint something instead of refreshing their social media account on a Lumia while out somewhere carrying a modern, updated version of the N900?

Just imagine how productive Toni could work with an N900 upgraded with Pureview camera and a somewhat larger resistive screen, faster processor and more RAM. If you really have to call the artist a name: "N900 artist" is a way bigger merit.

As it is a method to coop with the N900's 2009 hardware limitations both in speed and size while proving that true art and inspiration will never be "hardware limited". It is just more and harder work to work on the N900.

Thank you, Toni for keeping the spark alive. "