MyPaint

This is 2021: what's coming in free/libre software
by Alexandre Prokoudine

A look across the full spectrum of digital content creation software

Week recap — 23 October 2020
by Alexandre Prokoudine

So this is going to be an update that covers both recent and not so recent events.

Week recap — 2 March 2020
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Major releases by Blender, MyPaint, GIMP, and MusE teams, coding sprint by Krita devs, first release candidate of Dust3D v1.0, new release of Shotcut, major changes in Olive and enve.

Week recap — 29 December 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

darktable 3.0.0 release and beta release of MyPaint 2.0, major updates of Kdenlive and FlowBlade

Week recap — 27 November 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Krita gets magnetic lasso

Week recap — 4 August 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Week highlights: major changes in GIMP, exciting new features in Krita, new releases of Luminance HDR, Exiv2, Scribus, and FontForge, gazillion of news in the Blender department, new ArmorPaint releases.

Weekly-ish recap — 10 April 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

GIMP 2.10.10 released, Spring animated movie by Blender Studio hs been released

Week recap — 25 February 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Inkscape is getting a new visual live path effects selector

Week recap — 18 February 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

GEGL is getting its own node compositing tool

Week recap — 28 January 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

First MyPaint 2.0 alpha release is out

Week recap — 21 January 2019
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Inkscape team releases new version of the vector graphics editor

The art of Yaroslav Chyzhevskyi
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Yaroslav likes using it all: both Krita, MyPaint, and GIMP.

Week recap — 22 September 2018
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Krita team launches a new fundraiser

MyPaint gets SAI brushes, Krita goes for Alchemy's pull shapes
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Can you feel it in the air? There seems to be an urge to port useful features from less actively into more actively developed software projects

Decima Angelus series by Bernard Bittler
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Bernard Bittler found a way to fuse 3D fractals into more conventional art. And it's a dark art with a twist.

MyPaint 1.1.0 released with new blending modes and color tools
by Alexandre Prokoudine

The new version comes with more blending modes, symmetric painting mode, direct frame editing on canvas, blending modes, and new color tools.

Interview with Sintel's art director David Revoy
by Alexandre Prokoudine

Now that Sintel open movie is officially out, we publish an interview with Sintel's art director David Revoy.

MyPaint 0.8.0 released
by Ilya Portnov

Highlights of this version: a lot of new brushes, new harmonic color selector, a Layers dialog, user interface available in multiple languages.

MyPaint 0.7.0 switches to OpenRaster for native file format
by Alexandre Prokoudine

new version of MyPaint is out, the major change is using OpenRaster file format for storing your paintings by default.