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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 after Natural History Plate
Natural History PlateThe Moderns, made ours · 1850sPainted here after this hand, never after their pictures

The Moderns, made ours –

Natural History Plate

A hand-coloured engraving from a Victorian atlas

Gone 2026 years, so the hand is everyone’s. We describe it to the painters: the light, the ground, the palette, the stroke. The picture is yours.

Default palette: Prussian Print

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.

Suits first

Paint a MasterpiecePaint the PetPaint the FlowersPaint an HeirloomPaint the CollectionPaint a Child's DrawingPaint the Garden