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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 Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641)

Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641)Flemish and Spanish Baroque · 1620s–1640sPainted here after this hand, never after their pictures

Flemish and Spanish Baroque 1599–1641

Anthony van Dyck

Elegance at full length, silk and a column.

Gone 385 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: Delft Blue

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 Masterpiece Paint Yourself Paint the Pet Paint the Kids Paint the Day Paint a Child's Drawing

Painted here 3 judged

The hand, three times over

Each of these was painted in this studio in this hand and passed the art gate before it hung. Nothing here is a photograph of a painting.

Painted here after Anthony van Dyck, golden render — art gate, round 1

Painted here after Anthony van Dyck, golden render — art gate, round 1

Painted here after Anthony van Dyck, golden render — art gate, round 1