The Master’s Pupil is a hand-painted video game informed by Monet’s artworks

Game developer Pat Naoum has launched a video game with backgrounds, creatures and scenery entirely painted by hand, which took seven years to complete. Available on Nintendo Switch and Steam for Windows and Mac, The Master’s Pupil is a 12-level puzzle-adventure game that explores a painterly world through the eyes of French artist Claude Monet. Naoum painted every background and element seen in the game with acrylic paints on paper before scanning them with a high-resolution film negative scanner. “The paintings themselves are quite small, the green vines only about five millimetres high, so I used very small brushes along with a wet palette,“ Naoum told Dezeen. “They were so small, they kept being fuzzy when I used a camera, but the scanner captured more detail than I could even see.“ Read more on Dezeen: Watch Next : Take a video tour of Barbie and Ken’s lifesize dollhouse in Malibu - Subscribe to our YouTube channel for the latest architecture and design movies: ​ Like Dezeen on Facebook: ​ Follow Dezeen on Twitter: ​ Follow us on Instagram: ​