Made by a painter, for painters

You painted it.
That should have been
the hard part.

Instead there is the caption on a Sunday evening, the card, the certificate, the reel, the post you meant to send on Tuesday. Scan or photograph the painting once and Sundry Works makes those from it. Read them, change what you like, and go back to the easel.

Tell me when it opens

It runs in your browser, on the computer and on the phone at the easel. Not open to new painters yet.

Ask for an invitation

It runs in your browser, on the computer and on the phone at the easel. A few painters at a time, so that I can answer every one of them.

Try it for 30 days

It runs in your browser, on the computer and on the phone at the easel. Nothing to install, and 30 days free.

A painter in a top hat full of brushes, at a desk of jars, books and a camera

What one painting becomes

Evermore, and what came out of it

One picture, one title and one size went in. The card, the certificate, the label for the back of the painting, a frame of the reel and the post all came out of that.

went in

Evermore: a woman rides a penny farthing through a Texas dawn, a raven on the handlebars
Evermore

came out

  • The printed card, its story set on torn paper with a QR code
    the card
  • The numbered certificate of authenticity
    the certificate
  • One frame of the reel, a close-up of the painting
    the reel
  • The back label for the painting, with its story and details
    the back label
  • The post image as it went out
    the post

That is nine of them. The other nine are the quiet ones: what sold and to whom, what is queued this week, what still needs doing, and web-size copies of your picture, with or without a watermark.

Why it exists

between the last brushstroke and anyone knowing the painting existed

The painting was done. The work was not.

  • the hanging wire
  • the frame
  • the price
  • what the gallery's cut leaves
  • the story
  • the card
  • the certificate
  • the back label
  • web-size photographs
  • the watermark
  • the post images
  • the reel
  • a caption for every place
  • the hashtags
  • the posts, on time
  • a page on your website
  • who bought it, and for what
  • where it is hanging now
  • the show dates
  • reading the comments

done for you still yours

By the end of it, the only thing I wanted was to start the next one.

So I built the tool that makes all of that from one picture. Sixty-one of my paintings are in it, and every card, certificate, reel, post and web page they have had was made there.

A look inside

The screens you would be working in

  • The Overview tab: paintings, sales, open tasks and what needs attention
    the overview
  • The Story tab: Evermore's story, written once and drawn on by everything else
    the story
  • The Card tab: Evermore's story card beside its size and text settings
    the story card
  • The Papers tab: Evermore's certificate of authenticity beside its design settings
    the certificate
  • The Papers tab: Evermore's story label - the story and the facts, for the back of the card
    the story label
  • The Images tab: every web size of Evermore drawn to scale, one inside the next, against the size of the file itself
    the web image sizes
  • The Post tab: Evermore's full post - the painting on its branded card with the story down it - and the paintings ready to post
    the post
  • The Reel tab: the slides of Evermore's reel, with the opening close-up on the preview beside them
    the reel

Drag it along to see them sooner - or leave it, and it comes round on its own.

How it goes

Four steps, then back to the easel

  1. Add the painting

    Scan it, or photograph it at the easel with your phone - it is on the computer before you are. Title, size and medium, once.

  2. It drafts. You decide.

    A story, yours to write or drafted from the picture, and a caption cut from it for each place you post. Change any word. Nothing goes out until you press the button.

  3. Print it, film it

    Cards and certificates for the print shop, a short film with the story read over it, post images cut to each shape, and watermarked web copies. The original stays put.

  4. Send it out

    Instagram, Facebook, Threads and Bluesky - now, or on a timer that keeps posting while the computer is off.

Then you paint.

The card is at the printer, Tuesday's post is queued, the page on your site is up, and none of it is waiting on you.

Tell me when it opens →

Ask for an invitation →

Open it and start →

If you would rather not

Nothing here is compulsory

Everything that happens by itself can be done by hand instead, and what comes out is the same file.

It can do it Or you can
Draft the story from the picture Write it yourself, and no AI ever sees the painting
Cut a caption for each place Type each one
Read the story in a voice you pick Speak it yourself, or load an mp3
Make the reel Load a film you made anywhere else
Post it on a timer Download it and post from your own phone

Cards, certificates, labels, pricing and web copies never needed an account anywhere. The one thing that is needed is somewhere for the catalogue to live: an account here, or your own Dropbox.

What is in it

One painting. Eighteen jobs done.

New in

  • A walk through your own show. Pick up to twelve paintings and the app hangs them at true size in a gallery room, then films a slow walk past each one as a reel.
  • Forty photos in, forty paintings. Drop or paste a folder's worth of photographs onto the list and each one becomes a painting, ready to fill in.
  • A whole show printed at once. Tick the paintings and print every story card, two to a Letter sheet with cut marks, or every wall label on one sheet.

Watch it work

Every one is on the Sundry Works channel on YouTube.

Every tab has a page of its own in the Help - the same guide that is inside the app, written for painters, open to read before you sign up for anything.

Where it all lives

A folder of your own

Your catalogue is a folder - the pictures, the records, what sold and to whom. You choose where it sits.

The details: servers, Dropbox, and what the AI companies keep

An account here sits on my server, and that includes the private parts - what a painting sold for and who bought it. A copy is taken every day and seven days are kept. You can ask for the whole folder, or ask for it to be deleted, and either happens.

Your own Dropbox is in your account, under your password. Sundry Works is let into one folder and can see nothing else of yours - not a promise in a policy but how the app is registered: there is no way for it to look. Open it on the computer and on the phone and it is the same folder, so the photograph you take at the easel is on the computer before you are.

The Windows program keeps the folder on your own disk with nothing in between. The folder is the same shape in all three, and a catalogue moves from one to another by copying it.

If you ask for a story, the picture goes to the AI you chose, and which one matters. Nothing sent to Anthropic trains their models, on any tier. Google's free tier may use what you send, paintings included, to improve their products, and people may review it; their paid tier does not, and in the UK, the EU and Switzerland the paid terms cover both. The app says all of that where you choose.

A post on a timer waits on sundry.works until its time. Nothing else of yours is kept there, if the catalogue itself lives in Dropbox or on your disk.

When it opens

Coming in

Getting started

Not open yet

A few painters at a time

Take it to your easel

Sundry Works is one painter's tool. It runs my own studio every day, and it is not ready for anyone else's yet - I am not taking anybody on, and there is no date I can honestly give you. If you want to know when that changes, leave your address. I will write once, when there is something worth trying, and not before. That is the whole of it.

Sundry Works is one painter's tool, and it is now in a few other studios as well. I am letting painters in a handful at a time, because I would rather answer every one of you than open the doors and disappear. Tell me what you paint and where it goes, and I will write back from [email protected] with the way in and how to start. It may be a week. It will be me.

It opens in this browser, on the computer or the phone you photograph with. Add a painting and have a look - nothing is posted, printed or published until you press a button that says so.

30 days free, then $8 a month or $79 a year. No card to start it - at the end it stops and asks you whether you want to carry on, and nothing is charged unless you say yes. If you do not, your paintings are still yours and still readable: a folder of ordinary pictures and text files, which you can take away whole whenever you like. There is no format of mine to be stuck inside, and nothing that stays here once you have asked for it back.

When it does open it will be $8 a month, or $79 a year, with 30 days free to begin with and no card asked for to start them. Said now rather than later because you are about to leave an address, and what a thing costs is not a detail to find out afterwards.

Weighing this against Artwork Archive? Here is an honest comparison, written by somebody who paints - including where they are still ahead.

Open Sundry Works

Setting up, the phone, and the Windows program

Your catalogue is kept in an account of your own here - there is nothing else to sign up for and nothing to install. Have a Dropbox account, or want the Windows program to share the same folder? One button on the same screen puts it there instead, and you will be asked to let Sundry Works into one folder of it. Either way that is the whole of the setup. On the phone, open the same address, paste the token the app shows you once, and add it to your home screen. Stuck at any point, write to [email protected] and you will get me.

Would rather it kept your catalogue in a plain folder on your own disk, with no Dropbox in it at all? There is a Windows program that does that: download version 1.112.0, about 85 MB, for Windows 10 and 11. It keeps itself up to date after that. Windows will say it does not recognise the publisher - it is not signed, because a signing certificate costs more than this has ever earned - so click More info, then Run anyway. On a Mac, write and ask.

One cost is not mine at all, and is worth knowing about on its own: the writing, and only if you want it done for you. Stories and captions can come from Google's Gemini, which has a free tier, or Anthropic's Claude, which has not - your own account either way, so it is paid to them and never to me. I use Claude, and I have spent under $3 across all sixty-one paintings and a great deal of rewriting. Or use neither: every story and every caption is a box you can type in yourself. Narration for reels is the same - a voice you pick, or your own recording.

Thank you - that is written down. One email from [email protected] when there is something to try, and nothing before then. Thank you - that is written down. I will write back from [email protected], usually within a week, and it will be me writing.

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