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Interesting article on creating art with an iPad.  The article also references a Flickr group dedicated to people working in the medium.

The GUI has been redesigned with a great new look and many time-saving enhancements! The Toolbars and Song Title Area have been redone, and the chord sheet now has a "Real" looking handwritten font for chords. We've added UserTracks. Now you can make your own RealTracks to add to your song.

I think this is kind of cool tool, it gives a new look to music and is a way to customize your work a little. Saves time.

I purchased this software several years ago and found it interesting. The RealTracks sounded clean and followed my chord and time changes as good as could be as expected for a computer program. Sadly, my computer was not powerful enough to run the program without it jamming/freezing/lagging. I think with a proper computer system, a lot of time, and some creativity you could produce a pretty professional backing track for gigging out or creating your own studio tracks without the help of other musicians.

I have used GIMP for years. It is a really powerful image program. But it does have a learning curve, that is well worth climbing. From their website: " It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc. GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted. GIMP is written and developed under X11 on UNIX platforms. But basically the same code also runs on MS Windows and Mac OS X."

Interesting, I actually have this on my computer and never paid any attention to it...I will now!

This is a very powerful resource from the Metropolitan Museum of Art which illustrates their collection in timeline format. Thematic essays accompany the works which adds a lot of insight into the pieces.