July 2nd 2010 By Tom Cullen of Asylum.com

I can’t image and art teacher not loving this!!

“Geekgasm! How perfect does this portrait look. Hand painted? Yes. With a paint brush? No. It’s all done on iPad‘s Brushes application by New York artist David Kassan — using his fingers. An epic, three-hour paint session has been condensed into a seven-minute YouTube clip, which captures the extraordinary process. A recent tweet by British actor Stephen Fry helped the video to over 300,000 views. Kassan sites the “sheer conceptual and executed realism” of Caravaggio as one of his influences. We’re pretty confident Caravaggio didn’t have this app.  Keep reading to see the video, then head here for more examples of his work.“