Artweaver: free natural painting tool

[KenR]

Artweaver offers you a variety of tools to be creative and achieve the effects you want.

Artweaver is a simple Freeware program for creative painting, i.e. Artweaver offers you all artistic effects which you need for your work.
You can create sketches from photos and experiment with a wide range of brushes. The brush simulation is thereby so realistic as possible...
Advantages of Artweaver
    * Support of many different digital brushes e.g. chalk, charcoal, pencils...
    * Standard image editing tools like gradient, crop, fill and selection tools.
    * Transparency and Layers support.
    * Effect filters like sharpen, blur, emboss and mosaic...

http://www.artweaver.de/index.php?en_version

from http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=5805.msg54327#msg54327

[dhuser]

I use Artweaver. I have to admit, it is really a great tool. It combines the best of Photoshop and Painter. An Automatic Updater is also included.

dhuser