BRUSHster is an online painting machine for all ages. This shockwave interactive includes more than forty brushes and customizable size, transparency, texture, and stroke options. A rainbow palette, along with a toolbox of special effects that blur, ripple, smudge, blend, and fragment your designs help make BRUSHster a full-feature painting program. BRUSHster has a mind of its own! Click one of the green AUTO buttons and let the computer generate some paintings for you. When you want to regain control, just click the red STOP button or start drawing. Abstract painting is like visual music. It lets you share your mood or express an idea without painting a recognizable picture of something in the real world. BRUSHster is programmed to paint ABSTRACT art, but the tools can be used to create realistic pictures, too. If you'd like to draw with BRUSHster, select brush 32 and adjust the size slider to make a thin line. You can SAVE up to eight paintings as you work, which makes it easy to backtrack if you change your mind. Saved images will remain active and "re-paintable" as long as your Web browser window with the BRUSHster program remains open. If you refresh the Web page, the program will reload and the work in progress will disappear. Click the question mark button for more HELP, or watch an animation (Flash 7.3 MB) that shows how to create a painting with BRUSHster. To print your art, click the printer icon.
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