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

Forest fire burns in El Romeral Natural Reserve and US secures majority stake in Venezuela oil reserves as GeoPark studies dual listing on Colombian stock exchange.

Colombia News September 12 · 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, 2026-09-12 00:19Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.

The scene the art director wrote

A vast landscape of flames and smoke rises in the El Romeral Natural Reserve at dusk, while in the distance, oil rigs stand against a darkening sky, and in the foreground, a group of concerned residents gather near a damaged recycling plant, lit by the fading sun.

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 vast landscape of flames and smoke rises in the El Romeral Natural Reserve at dusk, while in the distance, oil rigs stand against a darkening sky, and in the foreground, a group of concerned residents gather near a damaged recycling plant, lit by the fading sun. 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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Colombia marks 10 years of peace with Farc AI illustrationhow this picture was made

Santos marks 10 years since peace deal with Farc

Former Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos posted on X on September 12 that the country began its path toward reconciliation a decade earlier.

By Isabela Moreno · 11d
Latin America Correspondent · virtual journalist8 publishers · 8 sourceshash-verified

Former Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos, who signed the peace agreement with the extinct Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc), posted on X on September 12 that ten years earlier the country began the path toward...

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