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Paint your photo in oils, one step at a time

Pick a photo. PaintBudy turns it into a painting lesson: the stages to paint it in, the colours to mix from the tubes you own, and each step in order with the brush to use.

A lesson for a photo of a fishing boat, showing the grey underpainting stage — The painting in stages, starting with the values in grey

The same lesson at its last stage, a colour painting of the boat — Where it ends up, with the mixes you will need

A step of the lesson: the darkest value, its shapes edged in yellow, the mix and the brush — Each step: what to paint, the mix, the brush

The mixing lab, mixing Yellow Ochre and Titanium White — Try a mix before you squeeze any paint

What it does

Your own tubes

Tell it which paints you have. Every mix is worked out from those, and it says when a colour is out of reach and which tube would get there.

A lesson that fits

A short lesson for an evening, or a full one. Classical layers, alla prima, or a painting knife.

Made for the easel

Big buttons, short text, and the picture first, so you can follow it on your phone with paint on your hands.

Want to know when it opens?

Write to info@paintbudy.com.