Greetings, FIREALPACA is a free, downloadable draw/paint program with versions for both Mac and Windows. Web apps are great provided that the class or school using them has access to a very big Internet “pipe”, All too often, that’s not the case. As a result, it’s may be better to have an actual program installed [...]

Greetings DISAPAINTED is a free, online paint/draw/animation program. Today’s app, DISAPAINTED is a fun, easy to use draw/paint program with animation capabilities. The draw/paint portion is fairly conventional with the expected features such as a brush tool, line tool, shape drawing tools, air brush tool, a bucket fill tool and an erase tool. ...

Greetings, HELIOS PAINT is a free, downloadable, paint, draw, and image editing program. How about another free, downloadable program for those schools that don’t have the bandwidth to support a whole lab of computers on the Internet? Today’s offering is called HELIOS PAINT and it’s a paint, draw and image editing program rolled into one. [...]

Greetings, ALCHEMY is a free, downloadable draw/paint program for Mac/Windows/Linux computers Is Adobe’s Creative Suite Software on your Christmas wish list but not your budget. Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, etc., are all amazing but very expensive programs. While I can’t promise any Adobe products in your stocking this Christmas, I ...

Greetings, PIMPMYFACE is a free, online, face drawing/creation service. It can be a difficult decision for some folks when using social media. Should they include a picture of themselves as part of their profile on sites like Twitter, Facebook, Blogs, etc? Some folks get around this dilemma by using cute caricatures. Another option could be ...

Greetings, CLOUD-CANVAS is a free, yet full featured, online paint and draw program. It’s Sunday again, the day of rest and relaxation. Some folks relax by painting but lugging around all that gear – easels, paints, brushes, canvas – can be a pain. That may soon change. With the new generation of tablets, a good [...]

Greetings, DRIPS is a free, web based and somewhat unusual paint program. It’s Sunday again. Time for some rest and relaxation. Perhaps your idea of relaxation involves artistic pursuits such drawing or painting. If so, today’s offering may interest you, especially if you are a lazy artist (It is Sunday, after all). Why lazy? Because DRIPS ...

Greetings, TWITPAINT is a free Twitter app that allows the user to send a drawing along with a Twitter post. While I am starting to understand the uses for Twitter, I confess that this app has me mystified. As a draw program, TWITPAINT is very limited. The paint colour can be changed as can the [...]

Greetings, LIVEBRUSH is a free, downloadable paint program, similar in function to Corel Painter or Adobe Illustrator. LIVEBRUSH is described as a free motion-based drawing tool that lets you create beautiful graphics in few strokes. The creators claim that LIVEBRUSH is “extremely easy” to use. In my brief encounters with the ...