Credits

Work, tools and methods this build used.

The paint simulator

• Easel, Alice's oil-paint simulator (github.com/aliceisjustplaying/claude-paint): code under the MIT License; its own paintings, logs and texts under CC BY 4.0. This project calls its executable and does not include or modify its code. Its colour mixing uses Mixbox (Sochorová and Jamriška, SIGGRAPH Asia 2021; CC BY-NC 4.0).

Method

• The annotations, critiques, completion tests and the refusal state use the Visual Thinking Lens (www.artistinfluencer.com), Russell Parrish / A.rtist I.nfluencer.
• The brief-first study wall and the painting studio's rules (lifecycle, intent ledger, completion test, critic modes) were built for this project by Russell Parrish with Claude.
• The note on the bleeding ulcer and the passage on the twenty drawings are from Russell's art teacher, as Russell recalls them.

Painters and critics

• Claude agents (Anthropic), each with a fresh context per run, critique and test, labelled in every record. Russell Parrish is the artist of record and the arbiter of reading disputes.

Related

• Drawing Machine: the sibling build, a learned charcoal hand and a critic it argues with.

Briefs

• Subject-constrained adaptations of public briefs on stillwet.art, chosen by Russell Parrish; no reference paintings were used.