Pixarra's February TwistedBrush art competition had an open theme. Entries could be of any subject and sytle and created using only the TwistedBrush digital painting software with the top three entries as choosen by the judges being honored with a permanent place in the Pixarra Winners Circle gallery. Choosing from the many outstanding portraits submitted the judges decided on the top three entries. First place is awarded to Starling (European) by Sparkling Star. Starling (European) has great clarity of the bird and the branch it rests on. Second place is awarded to Marsh by lancelott. Marsh is filled with atmosphere and color quality that lancelott is known for. Third place is awarded to I Love This One by gabbyloove. I Love this One is a magical space fantasy picture with a fantastic collection of imagary. Congratulations to the winners!

Pixarra's TwistedBrush is known for its easy to use real artist tools. TwistedBrush is currently at version 8.1 and includes over 1500 brushes that mimic real artist media, over 100 image filters, extensive color palettes and over 200 brush effects. TwistedBrush since it's inception has included traditional artist tools, such as oils, acrylics, pastels, watercolors, airbrushes, pencils, charcoal, pens, chalk, markers and oil pastels. Under the covers is a high performance 64 bit brush engine that achieves smooth blends and responsive brush strokes. In addition to the above features and variety of brushes, traditional style masks, paper textures, scripting, tracing paper, photo cloning and gradients are some of the other features present.

Pixarra was founded with the idea of giving high quality software tools to the artist that are easy and fun to use. Over the years artist software has become more and more complex and has lost much of the creative freedom of laying color down on the paper or canvas. It is our goal to offer tools that give artists the tools to capture ideas quickly without spending hours or days studying a reference manual. Stated another way our motto is "Simplicity Without Sacrifice." TwistedBrush is our flagship product that delivers on this idea.

To learn more about this software or download the demo visit our website at http://www.pixarra.com