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A family of artists · some of us have been creating for 70 yearsThree painters take your first line · nothing to sign up forOld Masters to the Moderns, 1470 to now · the face, the dog and the house kept
Painted a family of artists
Painted here from the line “my grandfather's pocket watch on a linen cloth”, after Francisco de Zurbarán (1598–1664)
my grandfather's pocket watch on a linen clothFrancisco de Zurbarán (1598–1664) · 1620s–1660sPainted here from that line, on this wall

A subject one a day is free

Paint an Heirloom

One keepsake, its wear kept, honoured in oil

Name the things and where they sit. Painters of the period gave a jug or a watch the same care as a face, and so do these.

The studio

What are we painting?

The canvas

Painter 132

Masterworks 78

Tap one to see it large. Paint after it and its hand is the painting’s; its subject never is.

Palette

How the palettes are sampled

One painting a day is free, no account. Three painters take it; the first to finish hangs.

What shall we hang here?The line above becomes the first.

The painting above was painted here from the line now in the studio. Change a word, or all of them, and tap Paint this.