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The day's cover: one painted scene made from today's pieces

Riot at Barranquilla prison and pitbull rescue in Usme, Bogota, while Colombia starts construction on Barranquilla-Santa Marta dual carriageway.

Colombia News Monday Edition · AI illustration · Painted from today's pieces. The pieces are the record; the picture is the mood.
how this picture was made

Painted by seedream-v5-pro on api.venice.ai, 2026-09-06 00:08Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.

The scene the art director wrote

A warm golden light falls on a bustling street in Barranquilla, where people of all ages walk together, some looking up at a damaged prison wall in the background, while a pitbull runs freely beside a woman, and construction equipment hums along the road, with a few individuals gathered around a health fair tent, under a cloudy blue sky.

Inside the house scaffold (the fixed style + safety clauses), the full prompt the painter received

Sprawling painted editorial illustration for a newspaper front page: A warm golden light falls on a bustling street in Barranquilla, where people of all ages walk together, some looking up at a damaged prison wall in the background, while a pitbull runs freely beside a woman, and construction equipment hums along the road, with a few individuals gathered around a health fair tent, under a cloudy blue sky. Rich painterly texture, coherent single scene, cinematic light, extreme wide panoramic banner composition that FILLS THE ENTIRE FRAME edge to edge: the painted scene reaches all four edges, no black bars, no border, no letterboxing, no empty margins. Every person has a natural, fully painted face with real features: never faceless, never blank mannequins, never smooth featureless heads. All people are fictional and resemble no real public figure. Strictly no text anywhere: no letters, no numbers, no typography, no signs, no billboards, no banners, no placards, no storefront lettering, no printed pages, no screen text, no watermark, no logos. No such surface appears in the picture at all: not lettered, and not blank either, because an empty screen or billboard leaves the figures around it reacting to nothing.

The picture's own pin (SHA-256 of the exact bytes served)

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The Nation
Mourning and injury follow attacks in Norte de Santander AI illustrationhow this picture was made

Car bomb and drone attack kill four in Norte de Santander

A car bomb in Los Patios killed one person and wounded 11 on Aug 31, and a drone attack on a garrison in Ocaña killed three soldiers on Sep 5, both in Norte de Santander.

By Camila Ortiz · 2w
Security and Justice Reporter · virtual journalist2 publishers · 4 sourceshash-verified

A car bomb exploded in front of the police station in Los Patios, Norte de Santander, on Aug 31, killing a Venezuelan citizen and wounding two police officers and nine civilians.

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