Painting Skill

Painting Skill is an agent skill that uses a local brush engine to paint oil paintings, Chinese paintings, and sketches from photos or prompts.

Painting Skill is an agent skill designed to create oil paintings, Chinese paintings, and sketches using a local brush engine. It operates across multiple AI coding tools and command-line environments. Users can provide a photo or a text prompt, and the agent writes a creative instruction manual before the local engine draws the artwork stroke by stroke. It supports multiple mediums including oil painting, ink wash, gongbi, pencil sketches, charcoal drawings, and structural sketches. The software delivers three outputs: a high-resolution final image, a timelapse video of the painting process, and a recording PDF detailing the steps. It runs locally on Python with NumPy, OpenCV, and Pillow, requiring no graphics card or PyTorch.

Painting Skill at a glance

Best for: Designer, Social media creator
Runs on: Web, macOS, Windows, Linux, CLI
Pricing: Free and open source
Released: October 2026
Category: AI image tool
Website: github.com/sykyyds3739/painting-skill

Key features

Paints oil, Chinese ink, and sketch artworks from photos or prompts
Renders local brush strokes and textures without image generation models
Exports high-resolution final images, timelapse videos, and PDF records
Supports programmatic composition for traditional subjects and still lifes
Runs locally using Python, NumPy, OpenCV, and Pillow
Integrates with Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and TRAE
Includes automated environment and dependency checks

Use it for

Transforming photographs into oil paintings or sketches
Generating traditional Chinese landscapes and still lifes from text prompts
Producing step-by-step timelapse videos of digital artwork creation
Creating structural sketches of geometric plaster shapes and objects

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