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http://www.ambientdesign.com/artrage.htmlArtRage: The easy to use, stylish painting package that lets you get painting from the moment you open it up. You can paint with oils, sketch with pencils, sprinkle glitter, and more. You can paint with gold leaf, silver foil, and other metallic colors. You can even load in your photos as Tracing Images to help you recreate them as paintings.

Well, if you could combine the wiimote with something like the free ArtRage drawing/painting media simulation http://www.ambientdesign.com/artrage.html you'd have that Bob Ross game everyone has been waiting for. Hair sold separately.

Move your controller closer/farther to change the pressure or brush size, twist to rotate brush angles, etc. Could be fun.

http://www.ambientdesign.com/ is a NZ based software developer, among others, i'm sure. :)

In that picture, the program being run is an existing tabletPC program called "ArtRage." It's actually a really cool app, which takes full advantage of the pressure sensitivity feature of the tablet digitizer.

Ah, I think you'd be looking for Artrage Maybe. It's free and is a nice "natural paint" type art application...
I hope this helps!

I love pen computing, (see my website, or my posts to places like http://www.tabletpcbuzz.com/forum/active.asp ) and while I find a graphics tablet an indispensable tool for doing digital work, and really love doing quick sketches w/ tools like Ambient Design's ArtRage ( http://www.ambientdesign.com/artrage.html ), I simply don't believe that work done in this fashion, even as a ``gicl\'e'' fine art print is going to have the same vitality and glittering appearance as work done by a master.

Microphotography (can't recall the specific magnifications and my book on this is at home) shows that a master's brushwork has the ink particles more evenly dispersed than that of a novice, and w/ practice one can get a far wider, and subtler gradation of colour than the 256 grey values PostScript will allow --- how does one do ``Po'mo'' techiniques where one paints a light area, allows it to dry and then paints in a darker value over it? The result is _quite_ different from immediately painting w/o waiting.

William

http://www.ambientdesign.com/artrage.html

A free paint program? Get ArtRage. It's for windows and now Mac as of this month. It's sweet and the interface is how all paint progrmas should be in my opinion.

http://www.ambientdesign.com/artrage.html

If you want to paint try Art Rage instead.
It's really fast and it's free.
The only thing is that's it's not open source.