Any equivalent to MS Paint in Mac?

Hello to all,
I come from a windows background and am very familiar with the simple 'paint' application; I am searching for an equivalent app for my Mac. I have downloaded [free] 'paintbrush for Mac' from the internet but find that it does not have the tools which MS Paint has, and more importantly, I can work only with 2 colors...white an black. Can anyone point out to me any free download that allows me to work in color too?
FYI I do have Adobe photoshop but feel uncomfortable in trying to learn it! A personal 'irrational' dislike!

"This has layers in them [something which Photoshop also has and I am afraid of!] "
Why are you afraid of applications that use layers? Layers are one of the easier concepts of both drawing and painting apps to understand and use. Think of layers as multiple sheet of clear paper or thin sheets of clear plastic that you can draw or paint on. You can build up a drawing or painting by putting different elements on different layers. If you want to alter elements on a layer only that layer gets affected. If you don't alike what you did on a layer, you can erase an entire layer and start drawing or painting on that layer, again, or delete the layer entirely. You can, also, more easily move elements around on a layer more easily that having all the elements on a drawing or painting on one layer.
So, there's the quick tutorial about layers.
What type of diagrams are you drawing/painting?
There are, also, diagramming programs, that have make drawing simple geometric shapes easier to do and easier to move around and esier to edit and change their appaerance. If there is text within the shapes, both the shape and text moves as one unit, saving you from moving the shapes and text as separate elements.
Here are two diagramming apps for example
Shapes
http://shapesapp.com/
OmniGraffle
http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omnigraffle/

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One last question. MS Paint meets my needs for working with gif, jpeg and bitmap images. Is there any equivalent to MS Paint on iWorks or iLife? Otherwise can you recommend a simple Apple programme?
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Hello
You may look at:
Imaginator, $49
http://www.stone.com/iMaginator/iMaginator.html
PaintBrush, free
http://paintbrush.sourceforge.net/
MacEtegami, free
http://www.googolplex.co.jp/us/software/macetegami.html
Poster Paint, free
http://www.robbieduncan.net/cgi-bin/get_file.cgi?file=projects/mac/
posterpaint/index
The Gimp, free but requires X11
<http://gimp-app.sourceforge.net/>
Resemble to Photoshop but with a lower cost
It's the one I uses.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE samedi 24 novembre 2007 18:31:10)

OT: What's the Mac equivalent of Microsoft Paint?

What's the Mac equivalent of Microsoft Paint?
It used to be MacPaint, but isn't that long gone?
Is it iLife? If so, in the specs I don't see any mention of
basic paint functions although maybe it has them.
Obviously I don't have a current Mac or I'd know the answer
to this.
Thanks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacPaint
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickDraw
http://www.pixelpoppin.com/dorena/
http://sarwat.net/painting/

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http://9to5mac.com/2013/10/12/how-to-mark-up-and-caption-images-using-preview-on -os-x/
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