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Is This Real?

  • Writer: bill880
    bill880
  • May 13
  • 6 min read



FINAL HOURS: THIS SPECIAL INVITATION CLOSES IN…14 HOURS • 01 MINUTE • 08 SECONDS

A Brush with Destiny… Enhanced by AI?

Join the First-of-Its-Kind Masterclass on How to Train Artificial Intelligence to Paint Like a 17th-Century Dutch Master (i.e., Moi) — and Learn to Craft Group Portraits That Stop Time Itself.

 

FROM THE STUDIO OF REMBRANDT HARMENSZOON VAN RIJN

Painter of “The Night Watch,” Etcher of Saints and Sinners, Student of Light and Shadow

 

Greetings, young apprentice of form and shadow —

You may know me as the man who made bankers look heroic, physicians look poetic, and beggars look divine.

But today, I come not with oil and linseed, but with something new. Something electrifying.A revolution in portraiture so profound, it makes chiaroscuro look like a parlor trick.

Artificial Intelligence.

Yes, I said it.

The very force that powers your cat filters and dubious coin scams……can now be used to breathe life into a blank canvas, with a soul — and style — remarkably akin to mine.

And here's the most astonishing part:

You can now train AI to assist you in painting timeless, lucrative, jaw-droppingly human group portraits — in the unmistakable style of the Dutch Golden Age.

This is not sorcery.

It is not Photoshop.

And it is not some soulless, push-button nonsense.

This is about combining the eye and heart of a painter……with the mind of a machine that has studied my every brushstroke across 346 of my finest works.

The Opportunity: Become the First of a New Breed of Painter

While some of your fellow artists tremble at the rise of AI……those with courage and curiosity are doing something quite different:

They are using AI as a collaborator. An apprentice. A student who never sleeps.

And as one who once employed actual unpaid apprentices, I can tell you:

This one doesn’t eat bread, complain about turpentine, or fall in love with your wife.

Imagine this:

·       You give the machine an outline of your composition…

·       Upload a sketch or two of your subjects…

·       Prompt it with your desired mood, social context, wardrobe, lighting…

And in minutes?

The bones of a luminous, anatomically plausible, compositionally sound group portrait appears — ready for your final flourish.

No more guessing. No more redoing the guildmaster’s nose for the fifth time. No more sittings where the colonel falls asleep.

Just you, your vision, and the fastest, smartest apprentice Amsterdam never had.

 

Introducing:

🖌 Rembrandt Reborn: AI-Powered Group Portraiture for the Modern Master

A four-week intensive for classically inclined painters who wish to learn:

·       ✅ How to train AI to absorb the nuance, layering, and lighting principles of Dutch portraiture

·       ✅ How to generate historically accurate, emotionally resonant group compositions in seconds

·       ✅ How to use AI as a compositional sketch tool that saves you 40–60 hours per canvas

·       ✅ How to maintain control over tone, realism, and soul — and ensure the human element remains front and center

And above all…

·       ✅ How to become wildly in demand with art collectors, historical societies, aristocrats, and eccentric tech billionaires alike

 

Who This Is For:

✔️ You paint in oils, but know that commissions alone won’t pay for fresh pigments forever✔️ You’ve used AI art tools but found them kitschy, lifeless, or soulless✔️ You suspect there’s a way to teach AI to paint with your eye, not someone else’s✔️ You wish you had more time to experiment with ideas, but real life (and real canvas) is slow and costly

 

What You’ll Learn:

🎨 SESSION 1: Training the Machine to See as I Did

·       How to feed AI visual data from Old Master works — and get back style-consistent sketches

·       Understanding light falloff, emotional geometry, and the laws of cloth

🧠 SESSION 2: Prompting Like a Painter, Not a Tech Bro

·       Learn the 7-part "Composition Prompt" formula

·       How to guide the AI’s choices without losing your signature style

🎭 SESSION 3: Human Faces, Human Moments

·       Making sure your subjects don’t look like wax dummies or androids

·       Integrating imperfection, irregularity, and that haunted glint in the eye

🎨 SESSION 4: Bringing It to Canvas

·       When to stop the machine and start painting

·       How to transfer digital sketches to canvas while preserving dimensionality and presence

 

Yes, You Can Still Call Yourself an Artist

This isn’t about replacing your art.It’s about removing the laborious bits so you can spend your energy where it matters.

Do you think I would have hesitated to use this tool if it had existed in 1642?

I assure you, I would’ve turned “The Night Watch” around in three weeks and kept the rest of the guild happy with likenesses and glory.

 

Your Instructor: Rembrandt (Assisted by AI)

Together, we’ll work not only with software, but also with your soul.

And by the end of this training, you’ll have completed your very own AI-assisted group portrait — one you can proudly sign, sell, or send to a disapproving aunt.

 

ACT NOW: The Guild Is Gathering

This special pre-release offer is only available for the next few hours.

Get lifetime access for just $487 — or 3 monthly payments of $169.

You’ll receive:

·       All four core modules

·       Three bonus masterclasses (including “Drapery and Drama: Clothing the AI Subject with Flair”)

·       Access to our private Discord salon: The Studio at the Edge of the Algorithm

·       Printable Certificate of Completion, suitable for framing, doubting, or forging

 

🎓 Join the Renaissance 2.0This isn’t the death of art.

It’s its next great revival.

Become the first of a new kind of master. Paint with your eye, your brush, and your machine.

[ 👉 Begin Your Training with Rembrandt Now ]


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What? Where did this come from? Is it real? It's surely interesting.


Here's the truth. Inside story. I've been studying writing copy using AI. And the first thing I learned is there are lots of people trying to sell programs to train you to do just that. For anywhere from $99 to about $1000, you can get both online and person-to-person programs that purport to make you a star AI-enhanced copywriter.


I believe none of these programs are a good enough use of your time and money to justify buying and using any of them. The reasons why not:

AI is a champion teacher. Just ask it. It customizes its lessons to reflect what you're doing and what you could be doing better

It's the workflow that counts. That means the rough draft level you start from, the style guides you pre-load, the follow-on edits you ask for and how you ask for them, which AIs and in what order you use, etc. You'll be better at figuring all of those things out for your typical copy projects and way of working than any course.

It's best for a newbie at AI to use it as much as possible to do everything they can think of NOW. While it's cheap. The only direction for AI pricing in the years ahead is upward. Price increases will go from annoying to punitive to prohibitive in moments once they start.


Anyway, I read a persuasive landing page for an AI copywriting course and was almost convinced to buy it. Despite that I felt that it was a waste of money. The page was that well done.


To inoculate myself, I dropped the copy into AI and said, "Please rewrite this, using the same style. Except make the subject of the course learning to paint in oil like Rembrandt. Make him the instructor and spokesperson." What I got is what you just read.


I sent the Rembrandt copy around to some friends. One reaction: "This is great. You need help? You want me to do the graphics? What's the course like?" Another: "Wow! Amazing. No wait, is this for real? Or is it a parody?"


To see whether it could work, I took a photo using Photo Booth on my Mac and uploaded it to ChatGPT. The ask: turn it into a Rembrandt painting. I'd never understood why Rembrandt had been so popular as a portraitist until the moment I saw my Photo Booth self. Wow, I looked so ... Important.


To me, learning to write copy with AI from a course is about as unnecessary as it is getting AI to paint like Rembrandt for you. Paraprhasing Megan Trainor, "It's All About the Prompt." (Not, in this case, about the bass.)

 

 
 
 

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