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That's really neat. With layering, brush types, brush techniques, the amount of water on paper and brushes there are so many variations to experiment with.

> using photographs as inputs for representational paintings.

That would be fun, going from a picture to a water color image of it in a few minutes.



I actually have done this with a acrylic pen and a 3d printer.

Currently in progress on scaling it up, I want to get to a 40"x40" scale to have room for a acrylic paint holder or watercolor.

The hardest part of image -> painting is converting svg to gcode, which is full of interesting.. problems.

I might do a build in public stream for it, although its pretty hard to film.

Heres a couple photos: https://imgur.com/a/0QyKQ6z


That looks fantastic. Thank you for sharing! Definitely worth a stream or a similar blog post about it.

Paint does sound quite tricky, all kinds of issues with it, dripping, how long to write before needing to dip the brush, the direction of travel, many other things? But it can be quite neat, a thicker paint could create layers and textures.




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