Rain Passing over the Badlands
Inspired by Katsushika Hokusai

Every stroke in the painting chapters is a real recorded brush mark from Arthaus’s native replay.



Notes from the canvas
- **Ground:** warm grey. - **First marks (330–560):** **sand/tan** ovals at the lower left first (330–380), then a **dark Prussian-blue** pair at the top right (about 430), a pale blue-violet at the left, and light blue ovals across the middle (480–560). - **Time-lapse (560–840):** a patchwork of tan below and blues above (620); by 680 the earth is tan and the sky blue; by 740 a **ridge mass** rises at the left with **pink dusk cloud bands**; by 800 a **row of pointed spires** runs to the right. - **About 860–985:** a dark blue sky top, pink cloud streaks, blue below, ochre ridges and spires, a pale foreground. - **Refinement (985–1385):** foreground **grass tufts** sharpen (1050–1250); then the ridges gain thin **horizontal stripes** of rust and cream, the layered sediment (1250–1385). Fine diagonal strokes texture the sky. - **Touches (1385–1567):** tiny marks; a warm rust touch at frame 1416 lands at the foot of the ridges (uv 0.59, 0.333; x 0.59, y 0.67 from top). - **Final:** dusk sky, Prussian blue on top, pink cloud bands, layered ochre/rust ridges with spires, grassy pale foreground.
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Painting provenance
Origin: american-landmarks-v1
Construction profile: utagawa-hiroshige
Painting SHA-256: 520cac40fdc7ecedc52ed7447f189903a9662efed122b4b1ab739094c9df6f45
Video SHA-256: 689e3272a3b95a224f5bb8ef7c5c79eb3cd14a7eb6cbd9b54e9b81c1df7eddff · Cut r1
Recorded construction and reference rights
16,100 recorded strokes.
Landmark reference: Badlands National Park just after sunset. Credit: NPS Photo/Mackenzie Reed,3October2017. Rights: Exact individual NPS asset Public domain/Full rights and NPS photographer credit verified. No visible falling rain or snow; weather added to composition is authored..
Recorded brush execution demonstrates how this digital canvas was built. It does not establish historically recovered gestures or a physical simulation of paint.
The research evidence does not establish independently validated artist-wide style.