Settings

Saved on this device.

Pace

Keep painting new versions

On: Solo keeps going like a screensaver — about thirty seconds after a painting is finished, the painter starts a new version of the same picture in a surprise style, again and again. Tap the screen while a finished one is showing to keep it. Off: Solo paints it once and stops.

Video quality

For the Record video box: Kai films the whole show, from setting up to packing away. Recording works with Normal, Quick and Relaxed (Solo runs for minutes, so it isn’t recorded). High is the default on computers, Standard on phones.

Saving

Canvas texture on saved pictures

Adds a light woven-canvas look to the pictures you save (PNG, JPG and WebP), like a real painted canvas. Turn it off for a clean, flat picture. You can also switch it for one save in the save options (⋯).

Styles

More detail paints every style with smaller, more numerous strokes, so faces and fine shapes come through. Classic style keeps the original, chunkier look. Applies to the next painting.

Start with the style I used last

On: each new picture starts in the style you painted with last. Off: it starts with Van Gogh every time. (You can always pick another before painting.)

Room

Random picks a different room for each new picture, and leans a little toward rooms that suit the style (Vermeer loves the Jewel Box, Monet the Oval Rooms).

Visitors

People come in to look at the finished painting

Critics, tourists, a dog walker, a guard… who turns up depends on the room. Meet the visitors

Some visitors are secret — keep your eyes open. · Start the hunt over

Gallery mode

How long each painting takes.

Painters sometimes use their favorite style

Now and then a painter can’t resist painting it in their own favorite instead of its style: Theo loves Van Gogh, Marigold Monet, Dex Mondrian, Rosa Pop Art, Wren Seurat — and Kai, Happy Little Landscapes. Off: always the painting’s own style.

Start it from the Hallway. Visitors vote for a painting, an audience sits down, one of the crew paints it again, and it starts over. The audience always comes, even with visitors switched off. Not recorded.

Snapshots 📷

Tap 📷 (or press P) anywhere — the rooms, the Hallway, the Crew Café, Gallery mode — and Kai takes a picture: no buttons in the shot. Tap 🎥 (or press V) to start a clip straight away; tap it again to stop early.

Show the 📷 snapshot buttons Show the 🎥 clip buttons

Hidden buttons still work from the keyboard: P for a snapshot, V for a clip.

Little Painters caption in the corner

Everyone poses: Kai calls “Say cheese!” and everyone in view turns and smiles first. Candid: taken just as things are. Ask each time: each time you tap 📷, you pick posed or candid. The caption is a small “Little Painters · trenttroyer.com/littlepainters” credit in the corner; it also shows in the last 10 seconds of Kai’s full video, while the camera holds on your finished painting. Plain, Polaroid, Postcard: the border around your snapshot. Screen size is right for sharing; Large is twice as big, for printing. The seconds are how long a 🎥 clip runs (tap 🎥 again to stop early).

Keep my snapshots in the scrapbook (the last 20)

Full screen

Go full screen when the crew starts painting

Show me around

The crew drives a lift up to each button and tells you what it does. Ms. Okafor’s Hallway tour and the Gallery mode welcome can be watched again from Help → Tours, once you’ve seen them.

Your gallery

One .zip file. Restoring adds to what’s here — it never deletes anything.

Reset settings puts every choice on this page back to how it started. Your Hallway, scrapbook, Margot’s fridge, room passport and secret-visitor hunt are all kept.

Bring a picture and a tiny crew builds a scaffold, rolls on the base coat and paints it for you in the style you pick — right there on the wall of a real room.

Everything happens on your device. Your pictures are never uploaded.

✨ Little touches — the small things hidden all around the gallery.

💌 Share Little Painters with a friend

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How Little Painters works

Bring a picture, pick a style, and a little crew of painters repaints it for you on a real-looking canvas.

1 · Bring a picture

• Tap Choose image, drag a file onto the page, press Ctrl+V, or tap Paste (phones too).
• The canvas takes the shape of your picture — tall, wide or square.
• Change picture swaps in a different one before you start.

2 · Pick a style

• Tap the style card (Change) to see your own picture in every style, then pick one.
• Black & white works with every style.

Your own picture

• Just my picture — the crew paints your exact picture. Perfect for a video of them at work.
• Torn Photo — your picture torn into strips and chunks, then pieced back together a little off.

Famous painters

• Van Gogh — thick swirling strokes that follow the shapes.
• Monet — soft dabs of broken color.
• Picasso (Cubist) — angular planes and charcoal lines.
• Mondrian — red, yellow and blue blocks between black lines.
• Seurat Dots — thousands of tiny dots of pure color.
• Klimt Gold — gold-leaf mosaic around softly painted details.
• Rembrandt Light — golden light on a deep, dark background.
• Vermeer — soft daylight through a leaded window on the left, a curtain’s deep shadow down the right, his ultramarine blue and lemony yellow, and tiny pearls of light on the brightest edges.
• Dalí, Melting — your picture slowly melts and drips.
• Fauvism (Wild Color) — bold strokes in wild, unexpected colors, after Matisse and friends.
• Drip Painting — flung and dripped paint in your picture’s colors.
• Happy Little Landscapes — soft blended washes and palette-knife highlights.

Prints & posters

• Hokusai Woodblock — flat print colors and inky outlines.
• Pop Art — four bold color versions in a grid.
• Comic Book — halftone dots and black ink lines.
• Travel Poster — flat 1930s poster colors and a banded sky.
• Street Stencil — sprayed through a stencil, drips and all.
• Engraving — fine banknote lines that swell in the shadows.
• Paper Cutouts — bold cut-paper shapes with soft shadows.

Drawing & ink

• Charcoal Sketch — hatching, smudges and contour lines.
• Watercolor — soft washes with the paper showing through.
• Line Art — fine ink lines drawn from your picture, colored in with pencil (with Black & white on: the ink drawing alone).
• Ink Wash — gray washes and bold brush strokes on rice paper, with a red 画 (“painting”) seal that stays red even in black & white.
• Trent’s Style — thousands of tiny pen strokes that follow the edges, in your picture’s colors (black pen with Black & white on). From Trent Troyer’s Plotter Art Generator.
• Chalkboard — a dusty chalk drawing on a green board.
• Crayon Drawing — waxy scribbles with the paper peeking through.

Crafts & fun

• Finger Painting — thick glossy swipes and fingertip dots (the crew uses their hands!).
• Mosaic — small stone tiles laid along the shapes.
• Stained Glass — glowing glass pieces between lead lines.
• Low-Poly — hundreds of flat, faceted triangles.
• Pixel Art (8-bit) — chunky pixels in a 16-color game palette.
• Neon Sign — glowing tubes on a dark brick wall.

Can’t decide?

• Surprise me — the crew picks a style for you.

3 · Sit back and enjoy

• Your canvas hangs in a real room: the Modern White Gallery, the Grand Museum Hall, a Brick Loft, an Artist’s Studio or the Main Street Mural Wall. New room moves it to another one, and Another frame tries a different frame in the same room.
• The Famous Halls — six more rooms inspired by the world’s best-known museums: The Grand Salon (your painting goes behind glass and a velvet rope, and the crowd packs in with their phones), The Oval Rooms (soft daylight and slow cloud shadows, made for Monet), The Jewel Box (silk walls and window light — Vermeer’s favorite), The Dome of Light (sun through a lattice dome drifts across the wall and the painting), The Turbine Hall (enormous, for giant paintings) and The Hall of Mirrors (look in the mirrors to see the crew and the visitors from the front).
• With the room set to Random, the crew leans a little toward a room that suits your style.
• When you press Start painting, everything else slides away so it’s just you and the crew. Dex and Rosa wheel in their carts and build a scaffold, the painters climb up and roll on the base coat, then the scaffold comes down and the main crew rolls in with lifts, rope seats, ladders and step stools. Each painter works their own stripe — the paint only goes on where a brush is.
• Meet the crew: Theo and Marigold are the painters, Wren paints from her rope seat, Dex and Rosa are the riggers (and drive the lifts), and Kai runs the camera — though now and then, when nobody’s recording, he leaves it and climbs up with a brush. Wide canvases are painted in up-and-down stripes, tall ones in side-to-side bands. When the painting is done they pack up and leave you alone with it.
• The painting time doesn’t include the crew arriving and packing up — that’s a few extra seconds of the show.
• Call in the crew! (on the floating control, at Normal and Relaxed pace) brings in more painters and halves the time that’s left.
• Tap the full-screen button for the full gallery experience. Skip to the end jumps to the finished painting.
• Tap the finished painting to look at it up close.
• Every painting is a fresh take — Paint it again gives you a new version in the same style, and Another style tries a different one. New picture starts over with something else.

Pace

• Normal — six painters, one minute. Quick — twelve painters, thirty seconds. Relaxed — four painters, two minutes.
• Solo — one painter does it all on their own at a natural pace (about six minutes). Solo isn’t recorded. It’s made to leave running: the screen stays awake, the controls hide, and with Keep painting new versions on, a new painting of the same picture starts in a surprise style about thirty seconds after each one is finished. Tap the screen while the finished painting is showing to keep it.
• Choose the pace in Settings (the gear button). It’s remembered on this device.

4 · Save it

• PNG, JPG, WebP or SVG (vector — scales forever).
• Size — 1× is the painting as you saw it (big pictures are worked at 2048 px on the long side). 2× brings a big photo back to about its original size; 4× is there for small pictures. Bigger sizes are re-painted crisp, not stretched, and a size too big for your picture or your device isn’t offered.
• Pictures with a transparent background keep it in PNG, WebP and SVG. JPG gets a white background.
• Canvas texture adds a light woven-canvas look to PNG, JPG and WebP (turn it off in Settings or in the save options, ⋯).
• SVG: most styles are made of real brush strokes, dots and shapes, so their SVG is exactly what the crew painted. The flat-color styles (Hokusai, Pop Art, Comic Book, Travel Poster, Street Stencil, Paper Cutouts) have their colors traced into vector shapes. Just my picture, Torn Photo and Line Art are made from your picture’s own pixels, so they save as PNG, JPG or WebP but not SVG.
• Copy and Share… appear where your browser can do them.
• Hang in the Hallway keeps it in your own gallery (see below).

Snapshots, clips & the scrapbook

Tap 📷 (or press P) anywhere — the rooms, the Hallway, Gallery mode — and Kai takes a picture of what you’re looking at, with no buttons in the shot. Tap 🎥 (or press V) to start a short clip straight away; tap it again to stop early. While the crew paints and the top bar hides, the two buttons float in the top corner. Snapshots and clips are made from the scene itself, so the buttons never show up in them (or in Kai’s video). Your last 20 are kept in the scrapbook 📒 — open it from the Hallway or from Settings. Settings has the rest: the poses, the caption (plain, Polaroid or postcard), the size, the clip length, and switches to hide either button (P and V still work).

Record video

Tick Record video and Kai walks in, sets up his camera in the corner and films the whole show — setup, painting and pack-up — from your view of the room. The little screen on the back of his camera shows the canvas as it’s painted. The video ends with ten seconds on your finished painting (a small painting in a big room gets a close-up), then saves (MP4 where your browser supports it, otherwise WebM). Recording works with Normal, Quick and Relaxed, not Solo. Video quality is in Settings.

Visitors

Once the crew has packed up, people wander in to look at your painting: a critic with his notes, a tourist with a big camera, a kid with a balloon, someone who needs a selfie with it… Who turns up depends on the room — the museum has a guard and a guided tour, the gallery has an opening-night crowd (and a collector with a red “sold” dot), the outdoor wall gets a dog walker, a jogger and the pigeons. They stroll down the Hallway too. Some visitors are secret — keep your eyes open. Meet them all with the Visitors button at the top, and turn them off in Settings.

The Famous Halls bring new regulars, each with a home room where you’ll see them most — and they wander everywhere else too: Lulu on tiptoe at the back, Hiroshi sitting quietly on the floor, Margot painting tiny watercolor copies (they end up on her fridge), Annelies with her loupe (Professor Pemberton’s oldest friend), Amir the architect looking up at the ceiling, Jules with his skateboard, Tamsin lying on the floor to take it all in, and Lady Fontaine, who curtsies to your painting. Gaston guards the glass case in the Grand Salon.

And a dozen more drop by: Noor & Bex, best friends who talk in sign language; Ivy, who explains every painting to Grandpa Felix (he dozes off on the bench); Coco the fashion designer, matching her swatches to your painting’s colors; Wendell the poet, who reads you a line about it; Mr. Mendoza the frame maker, who only looks at the frame; Inspector Quill from the insurance company, who gets nervous; Mateo & baby Lu (Lu has opinions — and drops socks); the twins Ada & Ida; and Ruth, 82, who does the whole museum in record time.

♥ Favorites

Open Meet the visitors and tap the heart on anyone’s card — a regular, or a secret visitor once you’ve found them. Your favorites come by more often, whenever and wherever they can (the snowman still only comes when it snows). Find every secret visitor and they all come out more, and your favorites more still.

Reviews

Professor Pemberton and Madame Duval are art critics, and they don’t agree on much: he loves the old masters, she loves anything bold and modern. When one of them comes to look at your painting (Pemberton writing his notes, or the two of them with their scorecards), their review comes out in the Gazette a day or two later — so come back and see. Reviews go with the paintings you hang in the Hallway: open a painting there and scroll down past the buttons to read the Gazette (the visitors give everything five stars). A NEW tag on a Hallway plaque means a review has come out. Once in a blue moon, the critics agree. Each critic has favorite rooms — Pemberton likes the grand old halls, Duval the bold modern ones — and the Gazette says where they saw your painting.

🛂 Room passport

Every room you paint in gets a stamp in your passport (see it in Settings, under Room). Paint in every one of them and Ms. Okafor has something to say. If new rooms are added, there are just more stamps to earn.

The Hallway

Hang in the Hallway keeps a painting in your own gallery on this device. Open it any time with the Hallway button and tap a painting to see it with its details:

• Download — pick a size (1×, 2× or 4×, whichever this device can make) and a file type (PNG, JPG, WebP, or SVG where the style allows). The crew paints it again from the very picture it was made from, stroke for stroke. Quick save gives you the picture just as it was kept. (Paintings hung before October 2026 can come out a touch different when painted again — for those, Quick save is the exact copy.)
• Copy (where your browser can) puts it on the clipboard.
• Replay — the crew paints it again in its room, the same painting. Record replay does the same with Kai filming.
• Delete takes it down for good.

Margot’s fridge stands at the far end of the Hallway, past your oldest painting, next to the water cooler. Whenever Margot sketches one of your paintings — in a room or in the Hallway — she makes a tiny watercolor copy and sticks it on her fridge with a magnet. Tap a copy to walk back to its painting. Her copies are hers: taking a painting down leaves her magnet up. The fridge holds the newest ones on top (older ones slide underneath), and they go into your backups too. Tap a copy whose painting isn’t in the Hallway anymore to see it up close. And yes, that’s Ollie’s drawing up on the freezer — tap it too.

The Hallway lives in this browser on this device. Back it up now and then: Settings → Your gallery → Back up everything saves your paintings, scrapbook and settings in one .zip file, and Restore from a backup adds them back (it never deletes anything).

Gallery mode

A screensaver made from your Hallway. Press Gallery mode in the Hallway: visitors gather in front of their favorites and vote, then we go to the winner’s room. Dex and Rosa set out chairs, the audience sits down, Ms. Okafor welcomes the painter, and one of the crew paints it again — a fresh take. Everyone takes a turn (Kai turns up now and then as a special guest); if their own gear can’t reach, they borrow someone else’s and get a little wobbly. Now and then a painter can’t resist painting it in their own favorite style. Then a bow, a few words from Ms. Okafor, everyone heads out, and it’s back to the Hallway for the next vote. It keeps the screen awake. Tap or move the mouse to show the controls: 🎵 Music, Full screen (tap again to leave it) and Exit gallery mode — or press Esc on a keyboard. Painting time (2, 4 or 6 minutes) and the favorite-style twist are in Settings. Gallery mode isn’t recorded. Margot’s fridge stays in view at the end of the Hallway — and now and then, something surprising wins the vote.

Settings

The gear button holds: the pace (and Solo’s Keep painting new versions: a new version in a surprise style, over and over), video quality, canvas texture on saved pictures, More detail or Classic style (smaller, more numerous strokes so faces and fine shapes come through, or the original chunkier brushwork), whether to start with the style you used last, the room (or Random) and your room passport, visitors (and starting the secret-visitor hunt over), Gallery mode time and twist, snapshots & clips, going full screen when the crew starts, Show me around (the welcome tour again), back up and restore, and Reset settings. Everything is saved on this device.

🧭 Tours

Each part of Little Painters has a little tour the first time you get there: Dex or Rosa show you the room, Ms. Okafor shows you the Hallway once you’ve hung a painting, and Gallery mode explains itself the first time you start it. Once you’ve seen one, you can watch it again here.

Privacy

Everything happens on your device. Your pictures are never uploaded.

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