In honor of the 20th anniversary of Painter I asked Mark Zimmer, co-inventor of Painter, to share some stories about the origins of Painter, the phenomenal painting program that has transformed the lives of hundreds of thousands of artists around the world.

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Related materials include:

Visual History of Painter 1991 – 2011 by Jeremy Sutton

Writing the First Painter Manual by Karen Sperling