Painting Plan

The Painting Plan helps you work through the most important decisions before you commit paint to surface. It focuses on composition, shape structure, values, colour choices, and painting order — the same foundations experienced artists resolve early.

Starting from your reference image, the plan helps you identify the most important aspect of your painting. Based on that choice, it automatically positions the centre of interest in a strong, considered location to support good composition.

The tool then helps identify major shapes and connect them clearly, making it easier to see how the painting holds together as a whole before detail distracts from the structure.

Colour decisions begin with simplicity. The plan first generates a minimal, workable colour palette based on the reference image, helping you avoid unnecessary colour complexity early on.

From there, you remain in control. You can click directly on areas of the reference image to select additional colours that matter to you and add them to the palette as needed, allowing the colour plan to grow deliberately rather than accidentally.

Values and saturation are clarified alongside colour. The plan helps identify value relationships and highlights areas where the reference image may be more saturated than paint can reasonably support.

Finally, the plan suggests painting stages — from block-in through refinement — and combines your decisions into a single visual guide. This guide is designed to be viewed on a mobile device and used while you paint.