Somebody has surely done this already.

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I've often played with the idea of purchasing about ten Paint By Number kits of the same painting, and then, by switching the color coding, paint different versions of the same painting - once in the standardized manner, and the rest ranging from slightly off to completely wrong in terms of the colors. I'd paint either a classic, iconic piece of western art, or perhaps instead the kitsch classic usually known as the crying boy.

I doubt that today I can find ten Paint By Number kits of the same painting. eBay would be the logical place to look, and sure enough, lots of Paint By Number items are available there, but hardly what I would need. As of my recent checking, over 780 Paint By Number items are available, but many, if not most, of these are completed paintings (many of them framed) and there are fewer (though I didn't count them) of the unused kits themselves, waiting for a budding artist to try his or her hand at them.

My guess is that there's more than one conceptual artist out there who has done this sort of thing (even long ago) though on the web I can only find a few hints and no real, full-blown, examples.

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Go to: Maybe I'm really Monet, or
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Go to: Mother Night on the web.