Patent ID: 9633571
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: G09B

Claim:
1. A method of using a border guide system to apply paint or other pigment in an overlapping manner onto a gridless art medium, comprising the steps: applying the border guide system to surround a working area of the art medium, the working area defined as a planar surface surrounded by a top, bottom, right and left edge, wherein the border guide system comprises top and bottom border guides and right side and left side border guides having positional reference indicia comprising numbers, letters and/or symbols that are affixed to a removable structure that borders the working area of the art medium without obstructing any of the working area, so that no physical grid or stencil is required to be applied to the working area of the art medium in order to apply paint or other pigment to the working area in accordance with predetermined instructions for using the border guide system; wherein the positional reference indicia on the top border guide lines up and matches the positional reference indicia on the bottom border guide when affixed around the working area of the art medium, and wherein the positional reference indicia on the right border guide lines up and matches the positional reference indicia on the left border guide when affixed around the working area of the art medium; providing at least a first instruction to apply paint or other pigment to one or more first regions of the working area of the art medium, wherein the first instruction includes a directive to use positional coordinates on at least one of the top and bottom border guides and at least one of the right side and left side border guides to locate a first coordinate of the one or more first regions of the working area of the art medium to which paint or other pigment is to be applied and a directive to use positional coordinates on at least one of the top and bottom border guides and at least one of the right side and left side border guides to locate a second coordinate of the one or more first regions of the working area of the art medium to which paint or other pigment is to be applied; providing at least a second instruction to apply paint or other pigment to one or more second regions of the working area of the art medium, wherein the second instruction includes a directive to use positional coordinates on at least one of the top and bottom border guides and at least one of the right side and left side border guides to locate a first coordinate of one or more second regions of the working area of the art medium to which paint or other pigment is to be applied and a directive to use positional coordinates on at least one of the top and bottom border guides and at least one of the right side and left side border guides to locate a second coordinate of the one or more second regions of the working area of the art medium to which paint or other pigment is to be applied, such that, in carrying out the first and second instructions, all of the top, bottom, right side and left side border guides are used, regions include the definition of one or more points that are defined by reference to the positional coordinates on the border guides, wherein the first and second regions are at least in part overlapping, wherein paint or other pigment is applied to the art medium in an overlapping manner.