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Tool Proficiencies: Painter's Supplies
Art imitates life, and life imitates art. In your hands, a single stroke can affect both. Paint an eye, and something may begin to watch. Mark your skin with a god's symbol, and they may watch over you. Paint a beast upon a shield, and its bearer may carry the creature's ferocity. Life is what you make of it.
The Living Image. You can sketch, paint, mix pigments, prepare surfaces, copy or restore images, and use paint to decorate or camouflage creatures, objects, and places. You can reproduce a recognizable person, creature, place, or object you have seen. From composition, symbols, pigments, layers, and brushwork, you can usually recognize a work's age, origin, alterations, purpose, and whether it was intended to commemorate, deceive, invite, command, protect, or curse.
If uncertainty requires a check, the DM chooses the Ability and Difficulty Class. Add your Proficiency Bonus to your roll. If a relevant Skill proficiency supports your approach, you have Advantage. For example, determining why the painted eyes upon a sealed door follow only one of your companions might require a Wisdom check with a DC of 15. Arcana or Religion could support the examination.
With suitable materials, time, and a physical surface to serve as your canvas, as determined by your DM, you can infuse an appropriate object, creature, or place with a magical property. A lasting work becomes part of the enchanted subject and can turn it into a specific magic item from the Item List, following its normal rules, including Attunement when appropriate.
You can also create Magic Tattoos upon the skin using henna, ash, gold, blood, or other pigments. The Item List provides established designs and effects, including tattoos that fade after use or lasting tattoos that may require Attunement. Finding magical pigments, procuring the required design, and finding the right technique for the work may become adventures of their own.