Patent ID: 7242799

Claim:
A method for creating a hand paintable grid that allows a user to create a painting, the paintable grid allowing the hand reproduction of an image by providing a set of indicia for guiding a user in painting over the panel to create a painted image, the method comprising: providing an image in digital form into a memory in a programmable computer; assigning pixel locations to the image; assigning color or shade palette values to the pixel locations; assigning font size values to the pixel locations to represent a grouping of several pixels having similar color or shade palette values, the font size being in proportion to the size of the grouping of several pixels having similar color or shade palette values; and printing, under the control of the programmable computer, indicia representing the color or shade palette values on a panel, so that a user paints over the indicia, using paints assigned to the indicia to create a hand-painted image on the panel.