BrushMentor
A mentor that reads your brush

Paint with
the masters
looking over your shoulder.

Upload a reference, choose a master's hand and the method that suits your study. BrushMentor writes a stage-by-stage tutorial tuned to your image, your palette, and your skill — then reads each stage of your painting and tells you what's working, what isn't, and what to do next.

Set up a study See a study, start to finish
47masters to study
8methods
6stages per study
∞your own palette
A reference photograph of the kind you'd paint from
your reference
Stage 01 — Composition
Richard Schmid•Rembrandt•Sargent•Pete The Street•Monet•Caravaggio•Van Gogh•Wyeth•Picasso•Alla Prima•Grisaille•Underpainting•Glazing•
a study, start to finish

This is the whole journey.

Every panel below comes from one reference — copper pot beside a cut onion. These are the actual guides a study gives you at each stage, produced by the same tool, not illustrations of them.

Start from what you can see01
Your reference

Start from what you can see

Your own photograph, or one from the shelf. BrushMentor reads its values, light direction and colour temperature before it writes a word.

02
Composition

Two values, nothing else

The whole subject reduced to light and dark. If the design fails here, no amount of detail will save it — so this is where the study begins.

03
Block-in

Four values, joined into masses

Squint and the twenty shapes become four. You paint the big relationships first, in the order the method you chose calls for.

04
Colour

Colour before detail

Detail stripped out so only the colour masses remain. Mixed from the paints you actually own — BrushMentor works with your palette, not an ideal one.

05 · Then the part that matters

Photograph your canvas.
Get told the truth.

At any stage, upload a photo of what's on your easel. BrushMentor compares it against your reference and the goal for that stage — and answers the question a tutorial never can: what should I do next, on this painting?

Start your first study
what comes back
an example, not a real critique
Working

Your shadow mass is one continuous shape — you resisted the urge to draw each object separately, and that whole side of the canvas now reads as one thing.

Watch

Your lightest dark and your darkest light are converging along the lit edge. Not wrong yet, but the form will flatten if they meet.

Next

Knock the background half a value darker where it meets that edge. Burnt umber with a touch of ultramarine from your palette — not black, which will go dead next to a warm light.

"You are three strokes from the thing you're after. Don't make thirty."
a quiet word

A mentor doesn't paint for you.
It teaches you to see.

BrushMentor won't copy a master's painting. It reads your reference, your palette, and your hand — then writes specific, practical guidance for the painting in front of you. The intelligence is in the suggestions, the order, and the critique.

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