MattePainting.org becomes part of the MattePaint Family!

With sadness, we farewell the faithful mattepainting.org, which held the banner of our craft for over 15 years.

MattePainting.org becomes part of the MattePaint Family!

To all the refugees of mattepainting.org, welcome.

We are personally saddened by the closing of the iconic mattepainting.org website as it was a resource that helped so many (including me), over the last 15+ years. As time keeps moving forward, it was clear the art community not longer engaged with a forum-like approach and the crew behind the domain decided it was time to say farewell.

"MattePaint is the best fit for the future of the domain." ~ mattepainting.org

While talking with mattepainting.org about the domain purchase, we expressed our interest in keeping the forum and gallery content online in some form so that future and present artists could look through the archives of images and conversations to learn from and potentially continue to engage with. Unfortunately, this simply wasn't possible.

All is not lost, however, as we have a thriving community on Discord which is open to everyone and easy to join! Within the Discord server you'll find plenty of varying topics, disciplines and even challenges to engage with.

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So for one last time, we raise our glass to mattepainting.org. Thank you for your continued service to the craft and for holding the banner for so many years. For those who are just stumbling upon the news, you are welcomed with open arms in our community, come say hello!

Farewell, mattepainting.org.

Conrad Allan
MattePaint Head of Product


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