New Yorker cover drawn with a $4.99 Apple App

This week's New Yorker cover was not created with the traditional paintbrushes and drawing pads, but instead, with a $4.99 Brushes application on an iPhone.

Portuguese artist Jorge Colombo finger-painted the image while standing outside Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in Times Square. He drew a night scene of a hot dog stand on 42nd Street in about an hour.

So how does the Brushes application work? It records the artist's brush strokes, and then replay them using the free Brushers Viewer utility which is only available on Mac OS X.

Watch a clip below to see how Colombo drew the artwork. (Although it took an hour, the video is a condensed version that lasts less than a minute.)