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The Paintbox

Sketchbook · The Paintbox

The Paintbox

Describe the scene in front of you — the tool plans how it sings warm against cool, picks tubes from your pans, and tells you the order to lay them. So you stop making mud.

Start a new one

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Resume your unsaved mix

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Open a saved card

Signed in as {{ accountName }} · your cards are saved to your account.
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· has a public page

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✦ focal
the whole picture, in proportionThe Composition · drag to set proportion

Warm–cool balance

warmcool

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Passages — tap a part to open its mixer

✦ focal
Mixing
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warmcool
warm–coolreads your mix
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◑Shadowed with its complement — darker, but still alive. Black would put the light out.
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This passage

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No colours yet — tap “add a colour”, or leave it blank.
Add a colour

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Paper
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Suggested paint order

Transparent, far & light first; opaque, granulating, dark & near last — this keeps colours clean.

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Your pans

Manage palettes
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Re-deal this scene?

This re-deals your passages — your tube edits stay in the tray, but the mixes start fresh.
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Keep this to your paintbox first?

You’ve been mixing this one. Tuck it in so it’s here when you return — or leave it and carry on.
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You’ve changed this card

“{{ resaveName }}” is already in your paintbox. Update the one you kept, or set this version aside as a new card?

Save to your paintbox

Aunt Go will keep it for you

Mixing and planning stay free. To keep a card so it’s here when you return, join the Post Office — we’ll send a sign-in link. We’ve set your card aside; open the link to drop it into your paintbox.

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By saving you’ll join the AuntGo Post Office — gentle postcards now and then, unsubscribe anytime.
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Check your post

Your sign-in link is on its way. Your card is set aside, not saved yet — open the link and it drops into your paintbox.

Keep it in your paintbox

Tuck this card in

It saves to your paintbox, ready whenever you return — beside the painting it came from.

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Saved to your paintbox

“{{ savedName }}” is waiting for you — beside the painting it came from.

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Share this mix card

A postcard of “{{ shareCardName }}” — the colours, and where they came from — with the Paintbox baked in.

Give this mix card a page of its own — anyone with the link can see the colours and where they’ve been.

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Paintbox
Mix Card

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Predicted swatches are approximate — the real colour belongs to the paper. The Paintbox lives under Sketchbook · Studio Notes.

How the Paintbox works

1

Pick your tubes.

Choose from the tray — the same paints the field notes were made with.

2

Mix, and watch.

Nudge the parts and the blend changes, the way it would on wet paper.

3

Keep what you find.

Save a mix card to your paintbox. It remembers the painting and the place it came from.

Mixing is free and needs no account. When a colour is worth keeping, saving it makes you a traveller — one address, no password.