So many of you mentioned yesterday that you were dying to get your hands on the Fresh Paint app yourself. Well, here’s your chance! The Fresh Paint team provided me with a tablet with the Windows 8 software, a keyboard dock (making your tablet basically a fully functioning laptop), and a really cool stylus brush to give away so you can create your own masterpieces in Fresh Paint.
So to enter to win the tablet, keyboard and brush stylus, please leave a comment on this post, sharing what type of painting projects you’d try with the Fresh Paint app. Abstracts? Portraits? Hoping to import a photo in using the “wet paint” function? Feel free to link to inspiration images. We’d love to see!
***This just in! CanvasPop is throwing in a free 12×18 custom canvas print of your masterpiece as part of the give away. How’s that for sweetening the pot? :)
Contest ends Sunday May 5 at midnight. I’ve opened up the comments to allow for unregistered users. The winner will be emailed so please be sure to leave you email address if you’re not signed in. Good luck!
I think the fresh paint program would be perfect for making abstracts. It would be cool if you could upload them somewhere and get them blown up and printed on canvas. gwenpangwen at gmail dot com
I would totally love to try my hands at some Van Gogh style of painting. His work is so beautiful. :-)
I would love to do landscapes.
Wow, what a neat giveaway! I'd love to paint pictures again, but without the mess.
I would totally love to try my hands at some Van Gogh style of painting. His work is so beautiful. :-)
Oh this is sweet!
I would love to try portraits, but I would also love to see what my creative 6-year-old daughter would wo with this app.
I would probably paint portraits of my family and friends to start. :)
I would probably paint portraits of my family and friends to start. :)
This looks amazing! Can't wait to try it.
I like to practice incidental sketching, using people on the bus (or even in a bar when i was in college) as subjects. The problem is that people often notice a sketchpad and then either 1) want to see what you did and comment or 2) act like their privacy has been invaded because i'm sketching them. This tablet and app would be amazing becuase it would not only let me use more than one pencil (color? brush size? yes please!!!) but it would also help me draw privately. No one would look twice at someone playing on a tablet. How amazing would this app/tablet be to travel with also? A camera and a sketchpad can be a lot to carry when exploring a new place and having it all in one plus the option of making abstractions or painting studyes for my photos would be amazing. I often take photos and then write myself notes for potential art projects and I would love the ability to create a quick study of the concept without having any additional tools to carry. Plus , how fun would it be to take a pic on the tablet, import it and draw right on top in a matter of moments.
I'd love to see what this would do for photos!
I'd like to try pet portraits:)
Oh my goodness, I would love one of these SO much!!! I LOVED what you made with yours.
I would start with the wet paint function to see how I could transform my photos.
This looks amazing! Can't wait to try it.
I haven't painted much since college, but would love to get back into it. My bathroom is calling for a still life painting, and printing out my own digital creation would be great– no worries about an original piece getting ruined by steam!
This is awesome! I'm not a great people painter, but I would love to try to paint over a photo of my son and dog!
I would love to use the app to create abstract art to fill my bare walls.
I would love to have the hardware and would try using fresh paint for art therapy.
i would love to use the wet paint feature on a portrait of my great grandparents. emmymckenna (at) gmail (dot) com
I loved your post on this product yesterday! I have several abstract photos I've been wanting to paint over.
I would love to have the hardware and would try using fresh paint for art therapy.
sue (dot)coplan (at) gmail (dot)com
I'd love to create something that looked like it was made with water color.
I would love to create abstracts that all go together color-wise for a collage wall. I would also love to create any of the prints on this pinterest board myself to save some mula!
Awesome giveaway!
-MB
my morning coffee
Ooh! I would love to make portraits of my children!
I'd like to try do some colorful abstract paintings!
I would try just about anything…it looks like so much fun and the end result is so realistic! I do, however, have an affinity for abstracts.
Ooh! I would love to make portraits of my children! How neat!
How cool is this tablet!!
I would love to us this wet paint app on my wedding pics OR to paint an abstract.
This app looks so great. I would love to do a few abstracts and maybe a family portrait
I'd love to paint some colorful abstract pieces.
I'd love to do some of my husbands and my wedding pictures like that! Or pictures of our dogs, or our niece! Or our pretty blooming flowers!
I would love to be able to import my own designs(I love doing any kind of art with textiles) and to "paint" my own textile designs.
I am in love with the idea of painting over a photo. I would love to import photos from different travels and turn them into paintings. Thanks!
I'd try going over photos, such a cool idea!
I'd love to try the fresh paint app on photos. What an amazing process!
This app is so cool! I would love to test it out on abstracts, landscapes, and especially using that wet paint technique! I also love the wide range color pallet because I love to paint, but I'm terrible at mixing colors :( I can never get the exact color I want. So this app would be perfect!
I would love to try painting some abstracts and I definitely love the idea of "painting over" pictures.
I paint in oils in real life and this looks like an amazing way to do quick color studies and not waste materials blocking out color schemes and layouts for final pieces. Not only that but since it's not a real media I could conceptualize ideas on the go instead of possibly forgetting when I sit down to start a painting later.
Portraits, abstracts, illustrations while on the go. I'd love to try it all!
I am so excited for this giveaway!
I would love to try some pieces inspired by Mark Rothko. And I am sure I would try a few of my two cats.
I would love to make something abstract like this:
http://www.art.com/products/p10114294-sa-i853475/franz-kline-untitled-1957.htm?mg=y&gid=57670924&itemid=57734786&apnum=382950&PODConfigID=0&oos=2
I'm a first time commenter, but I've been following your blog for some time now…Beautiful photos, inspiring design, and really impressive DIYs. I think you are so talented, and you make every job look so doable. Thanks for such a fabulous resource!
-Lillian
lillian.veley@gmail.com
I would try the landscapes and architecture of all our favorite travel spots, plus portraits of my ancestors! Awesome stuff. albennett@cox.net
I would LOVE to try this! My artist mom enrolled me in a Saturday painintg class at age 7 (oil paints, mind you). i stuck with it until I was 19 and then was more interested in the outside world (boys, politics, music). I've always dreamed about getting back to my painting roots, but feel intimidated about brigning painting with oil into my home with my 3 year old running about. digital art sounds like the perfect solution!
I would try the landscapes and architecture of all our favorite travel spots, plus portraits of my ancestors! Awesome stuff. albennett@cox.net
I paint in oils in real life and this looks like an amazing way to do quick color studies and not waste materials blocking out color schemes and layouts for final pieces. Not only that but since it's not a real media I could conceptualize ideas on the go instead of possibly forgetting when I sit down to start a painting later.
I would live to recreate some photos the way you did. I've especially been wanting to do a more casual portrait of my kids. It looks like an amazing tool!
definitely interested in trying some portraits of family and pets!
Definitely portraits.
Painting is intimidating because once paint is on the canvas, you've pretty committed yourself, or it feels that way to me at least. But with this app, I wouldn't fear that anymore. I'd love to experiment with abstracts and existing photos!