What you would ask us

Three painters take every line at once. All three are OpenAI's gpt-image-2.5-sunburst, the image painter we settled on after months of trials, each given our description of the style you chose and a finish of its own: one bold and flat as a poster, one soft under varnish, one worked and grainy. They paint over a blank prepared canvas. You choose the ones you love; all three wait in the workroom.

The styles are ours: for each era and each painter we describe the light, the ground, the palette, the stroke and the surface, and we judge the results against real paintings before a style goes on the shelf. What we do not do is name or imitate a living artist, or copy any picture.

We are a family of artists, passionate about the act of creation. Some of us have been creating for seventy years, long before any of this technology existed.

Nearly all of the AI art we see doesn’t inspire us, and we became fascinated by the idea that we could build something better. If we are successful, the oil paintings we create in our studio can hang in our own homes and don’t need to be advertised to support our family. The whole story is on the About page.

Six paintings, with or without an account: we paint three for each of your first two ideas, watermarked, and keep them on this wall for a day. Sign in and they stay on your wall. After that, anything you order brings 24 more paintings, and 24 more are $10 once, kept on your account for whenever you paint next. Buying the file removes the mark and gives it to you at full size. Or join a plan: your paintings refill every month, and each one you make on it downloads without the mark at up to 4K.

The painting you choose, full size and unmarked, is $19. All three paintings, $29. A Masterpiece, a typed line or a drawing and never a photograph, $15. Prints, canvases and garments are priced on the order page, before you pay. Or paint by the month: Student is $25 for 15 paintings, University is $49 for 45 paintings, Gallery is $149 for 120 paintings.

After, always. You reach the order page only from a painting you have chosen, and that painting, at the brightness you approved, is the one we print or send.

It is yours for personal use: print it anywhere, at any size it prints cleanly, give it, hang it, wear it. It is not for resale, stock, advertising or training software. A painting made on the Gallery plan ($149 a month) carries a commercial licence as well: you may sell it and the things you print it on, and use it in your own advertising. The full terms are on the Terms page.

Every painting on the shelf is public domain or CC0 and says which museum holds it, with a link to the museum’s own record. Paint after one and it lends your painting its brushwork and light, never its subject, and the credit rides on the plaque. As a print, it is the museum’s own image, never enlarged, and only at the sizes it holds sharply; one too small to print cleanly is not sold as a print.

Yes, signed in, with the box ticked that says you are their parent or guardian. Photographs and drawings that show a child are refused without it. A painting that contains a child is never given a share page.

The painting, its title, its plaque and one door to the studio. Never your line, your photograph, your drawing, your name or your account. Turn it off and our page and image are gone; a copy someone already saved is theirs, and we cannot recall it.

A touch darker to a good deal brighter, in small steps, under each painting. The brightness you approve is kept in every file you receive: the preview, the share image, the download, the print. It is the one edit the studio offers, and it is a real one.

No. Every painter on the shelf has been gone seventy years or more, and we do not take a living name in a line. Modern artists cannot be named or imitated; what we can do is take the styles they inherited and make them our own for you. That is the Moderns shelf: airbrush, spray paint, risograph, gold leaf, each described by its palette, mark and surface, none by a name.

Write to paintedalways@gmail.com from the address on your account and we remove your paintings, photographs, drawings and account. Turning a share page off removes it at once.