Art Rage
Posted by Allanahk on March 28, 2008
It has been a while since I have played with Art Rage but since I am busy migrating from my old computer to my new I thought I had better get the latest upgrade. What a wonderful Kiwi made product.
There is a free version of Art Rage to download which is fully functioning but has access to less of the drawing/painting tools than the paid version. Good to play with until you get hooked. Last year Art Rage offered Kiwis licences for $1 each you can’t get any better than that so we bought 25! It is available now on PC or Mac for $25NZ.
There is a really good forum linked to their website for sharing your finished work and collaborating with various users’ nominated themes.
I am a pathetic artist but managed to create this masterpiece by using a photo from iPhoto (it meshes like any other Apple product) and used it as a template to grab colours and textures from. Seeing I took the original photo and painted the textured layers you can probably say it was the best art work I have ever created.
You can bet it will be one of the first things I will play with when I get a Mimio interactive whiteboard to play with for the year.
March 28th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
That is a gorgeous piece of artwork. I cannot do this with a mouse at all well so my dream is for a Mac tablet – then life would be complete
March 30th, 2008 at 9:35 am
Art Rage is great. You might like this idea of using it from Jacqui Sharp’s blog http://sharpjacqui.blogspot.com/2008/03/artrage-and-portraits.html
She introduced artrage to our school last year.
March 30th, 2008 at 10:01 am
To be honest- I did use that technique- I told you I was a pathetic artist.