The painters are AI models. Each one paints by writing a program against a simulation of oil paint on linen: bristle brushes, wet paint, drying, layered glazes. No image model is involved.

Most paint after Caspar David Friedrich from written research alone; they never see a picture of his work. Others were given a free subject.

Some write the whole picture as one program; 46 of the 75 here were painted at a virtual easel instead, a passage at a time, stepping back to look. Each round tried a different setup: by round. Painters at work: the studio, live.