Your Art Teacher. In Your Pocket. Always On.

Mix. Paint.
Improve.

SfumatoART matches colours from any photo, gives you the exact paint recipe using your paints, then critiques your finished work — encouragement, assessment and guidance in one free app.

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No sign-up·no install·iPhone & Android·works offline·veterans always free

🤖 AI painting critique
🎓 Learn to paint — built in
🎨 Colour matching from any photo
📂 Save & revisit sessions
🏅 Veterans — always free
Three Things. One App. Free.
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Colour matching
Tap any colour in a photo — get the exact paint recipe using your paints. Delta-E science. Saves your sessions. Works offline on iPhone & Android.
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Painting lessons
Beginner to advanced, built right in. Len Hend videos, technique guides, step-by-step — all free, no subscription.
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AI critique
Upload your painting. Get honest, level-appropriate feedback on 8 elements — composition, colour, edges and more.

From photo to palette in seconds

No colour theory degree required. Just tap the colour you want to mix.

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Upload your reference photo
Use your own painting reference, or choose a sample from the app. JPEG, PNG, HEIC — all supported.
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Tap the colour you want
Touch any part of the photo. SfumatoART samples the exact pixel colour using Delta-E colour science.
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Get your paint recipe
Instantly see which of your paints to mix, and in what ratio. Save it to a project for later.
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Paint — then get critiqued
Upload a photo of your finished painting. AI gives you honest, encouraging feedback at your level.

Leonardo da Vinci called it sfumato — the art of making colours dissolve so perfectly that no seam remains. He built colour in imperceptible layers until tones dissolved into each other. The Mona Lisa is the most famous example. No lines. Just sfumato.

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Always free for those who serve.

SfumatoART is permanently free for veterans and first responders — no voucher, no verification, no expiry. Register once in the app and we'll greet you by name every time you open it.

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"Military service trains you to read terrain, light, and distance with precision. Those same skills make you exceptional at landscape painting — you see what others miss. Painting gives back what service sometimes takes."

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Free. Really.

No subscription. No freemium. No ads. SfumatoART is built to help painters, not to monetise them.

Free
Everything. Always. No sign-up required.
  • Colour matching from any photo
  • 38 Shuttle Art paint recipes included
  • AI painting critique (beginner to advanced)
  • Len Hend painting lessons built in
  • Projects, palettes, history — unlimited
  • Camera calibration for accurate colours
  • Works offline (except AI critique)
  • Veterans & first responders — always free
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