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How it works about 31 seconds

From a line to the wall

Every step, in order, including the ones that say no

Nothing is charged before you have seen the painting, and nothing hangs on your wall that you did not approve. Here is the whole path.

  1. Step one

    Choose a door

    Imagine: type a line. Upload: a photograph. Sketch: draw it in the frame with a steadying hand at three levels, undo and clear included. A photograph of a sketch is welcome too; tick the box and the paper is ignored.

  2. Step two

    Say what it is

    14 subjects, from a masterpiece to an heirloom. The subject tells the painters how to frame it: a face kept as it is, a room kept to its own furniture, a bouquet kept to its true species. A child in a photograph or drawing needs a parent or guardian signed in.

  3. Step three

    Choose the hand

    5 eras keyed to their decades, 39 painters, every one gone seventy years or more, or 88 modern hands described by their palette, mark and surface and never by a name. Or a museum scan from the shelf as the seed: its brushwork and light, never its subject. Or let the studio choose and read the plaque.

  4. Step four

    Watch three painters work

    Three take the same line at once, each nudged a different way; the wait shows each one and how far along it is. About 31 seconds on the ledger’s median. A painting the studio refuses, a line it cannot paint, a lost connection: each says so and what to do next.

  5. Step five

    Hang one

    The workroom: the three frames, an exposure slider under each, a title on the plaque. Nudge the light, approve it, hang it. The frame you hang is the file you get, exposure baked in. Change it after hanging and it needs hanging again before anything can be bought.

  6. Step six

    Keep it, share it, order it

    Save it to your wall (signed in), share it as a page that shows only the painting and its plaque, paint it again with a change, or order: the file, a print, a canvas, a garment, or a gift sent to someone with a note. Museum scans print at 8 × 8 to 24 × 36 inches, and only where the scan has at least 150 pixels an inch; nothing is upscaled.

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