Coptic markers and chalks are not available and in an art app, I would prefer to have more innovative art tools than glitter or cutesy stickers. There is a Workbench mode that is customizable for the tools and presets you use, yet collapses into a toolbar to make more room on the art board.ĪrtRage has all of the basic art supplies to get you started: an oil and a watercolor brush, palette knife, airbrush, cloner, pastels, ink pen, pencil, paint roller, sticker spray, felt pen, a bloop pen, and a less-welcome gimmicky glitter tube. Presets for the art tools, stencils, stickers, scraps, color samples, reference photos, and tracing are all contained in small boxes, or pods, that are accessible but out of the way when working on the canvas. ArtRage’s art board contains pods, and I wish more art apps offered them. ArtRage 4.5 is 64-bit and supports Mac (Intel only) OS X 10.6 or later and Windows 7, 8, and Vista (not Windows XP).Âīeginner and advanced artists will appreciate the straightforward user interface and the unobtrusive tool and color palettes. For ArtRage 4 users, there is a free upgrade to the 4.5 version and that is the version I am reviewing. The Mac version provides a good selection of art tools but ArtRage is not as complex or as robust an art application as Corel’s Painter, nor does it have as steep a learning curve as Painter.
As I use it so frequently on my iPad, I was eager to use the Mac OS X version on my new iMac. At the time it offered, and yet continues to have, the most realistic oil painting brushes of any painting app for the iPad or iPhone. When I purchased my first iPad several years ago, the first art painting app I installed was ArtRage.
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