Quiet Canvas ©

Turn any picture into a paint-by-numbers canvas, and paint it your way.

Quiet Canvas takes a photo of your dog, your last holiday, or a famous painting and turns it into numbered sections. Then you paint, one stroke at a time, in watercolor, pastel, oil or flat color. There are no timers, no scores and no wrong answers. Stop whenever you like, come back tomorrow, and export it when it feels done.

Paint anything

• Open any picture from your PC and choose how many colors (32 to 64) and how detailed the sections are.
• Or pick from a small gallery of public-domain masterpieces: Hokusai, Van Gogh, Monet, Seurat, Vermeer and more.
• Keep the original open in a reference window you can move and resize.

Paint your way

• Four mediums, each with its own textured brush: soft watercolor with wet edges, chalky pastel, streaky oil, or clean flat color.
• Every number has a suggested color, but nothing is locked. Recolor any number from the palette or a free color wheel.
• Brush, fill a whole section, erase, or pick a color straight from the painting.
• Strokes stay inside the section you start in, so you can paint loosely and still stay in the lines.

No pressure

• No fail state. Unpainted sections are fine.
• Undo up to 50 steps.
• Lost a tiny section? Find unpainted jumps right to it.
• Paintings save on their own and pick up exactly where you left off.

Share it

• Watch a time-lapse of your painting coming together and save it as a looping GIF.
• Export as PNG or JPG, on its own, next to the original, in a mat or a wooden frame, or as line art to print and color by hand.

Cozy by design

• Original calm music, soft brush and water sounds, and optional rain, forest, fireplace or ocean ambience.
• Add your own music by dropping files into the Music folder.
• Light and dark mode, adjustable interface size.

Made by GLORT Studios, the makers of MOBA Empire.

Controls

Action	Control
Paint	Left mouse
Zoom	Mouse wheel
Pan	Right or middle drag, or Space + drag
Brush size	[ and ]
Brush, eraser, pick color	B, E, I
Find an unpainted section	F
Undo	Ctrl+Z
Pause the time-lapse	Space

Credits

• Game, code, music and sound effects: GLORT Studios.
• Font: Nunito by Vernon Adams, Cyreal and Jacques Le Bailly, licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
• Gallery paintings: public-domain works from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Rijksmuseum and the J. Paul Getty Museum. Full credits for each painting are on the in-game Credits page.
• Your own pictures never leave your PC.

System requirements

• Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit.
• A graphics card from the last 8 years or so; large pictures (4096 px) need about 1 GB of video memory.
• About 150 MB of disk space, plus your saved paintings.
  
  
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