Posters with nothing to sell

What it is

The railways, the liners and the park services paid painters to make a place look worth the fare, so the posters they hung in stations were built to sell a ticket. These are built from a photograph you took, so there is no fare to sell: the place stays exactly as you saw it, and the school changes only the way it is painted.

There are twelve schools on four lines: The Railway, The Liner, The Parks, The Riviera. Every school is shown on two sample places, a harbour and a lake village, so you can see what it does to a place before it touches yours. The one you keep is printed on paper, canvas or a garment, up to 40 × 60″.

Two sister studios sit close to this one. Painted Earth sells antique maps of a place, and The Poster Atlas sells the public-domain travel posters themselves. This studio sells your own photograph, painted as one.

What it refuses

Any real company, airline, railway, shipping line or hotel name or mark, painted in or typed on: the old posters advertised those companies, and yours advertises your place. Flags, and symbols of hate. Face portraits: people in the view become small figures, and a portrait belongs at Painted Premiere, the sister studio that paints people. A photograph with no place in it is refused before anything is counted.

Who runs it

PaintedApp, LLC, the company behind every Painted studio. One mailbox answers: support@painted.app. Post goes to PaintedApp, LLC, 1327 SE Tacoma St #394, Portland, OR 97202. The questions page has the short answers, and the legal page has the rest.