Is a painting's soul its color, or its composition?
I built a game to find out. Color Harvest is painting in reverse: take a masterpiece apart, one shade at a time, and watch it fade to a ghost as the palette fills.
I built a game to find out. Color Harvest is painting in reverse: take a masterpiece apart, one shade at a time, and watch it fade to a ghost as the palette fills.
Painting in reverse · Unpaint the masters
The harvest
A touch pulls a color down to its place on the palette. The painting fades to a grayscale ghost while the palette fills, lush and deep. Then pull the tones: the skeletal architecture of light, shadow, and charcoal gray.
The beauty doesn't vanish. It transfers.
What survives
Hue is the color itself. Value is how light or dark a thing is, regardless of its color. A painter spends years learning to see them apart. Color Harvest puts that hard-won vision under a fingertip.
Pull the color out of a Monet and the image nearly evaporates; Impressionism lives in its color. Pull the color from a woodblock print or a chiaroscuro scene and the structure still stands, built in light and shadow. Which is which reveals itself in the harvesting. Art history with no reading, no lecture, and no grade.
Free and Pro
Free
The color axis, forever
A wide, generous, growing gallery of masterpieces to harvest. No ads. No tracking.
Pro
$4.99 once · no subscription
The tone axis, and the reverse: painting the masterpiece back into existence from bare canvas, tone then color, the way it was made.
Living artists
Color Harvest hosts working artists alongside the masters. Each artist gets a harvest of their own painting to share: their colors, their structure, their chromatic fingerprint, playable by anyone with the link.
An artist with a painting to unpaint? The gallery is growing. Write us: info@ultra-normal.com
No score. No timer. Nothing to win.
Just a masterpiece, and the quiet satisfaction of setting things right.
