An amateur painter attends his first art show, hoping to sell some of his work. He soon understands, however, that the path to success in art is not nearly as simple as he once perceived it to be.

A talented lower class painter strikes a horrible deal with a popular, untalented nobleman - his masterpieces will receive the adoration they deserve, under another man's name.

A writing critic reviews the construction of Charles Chesnutt’s stories and how to write surfiction.

A woman on a farm in France in the late 1800s meet a curious young man who is an artist. The two develop a friendly relationship as they learn from each other new ways of seeing the world.

A woman reflects on what happened when her downstairs neighbor, an older Korean man, suffers from a seizure at their shared patio.

A couple go to a small seaside town to get inspiration for the woman's photography, but they must face the ghost stories they've heard of the town.

When a young hospital attendee runs away from charges of murder, he lands in the refuge of two artists. He stays to learn how to paint and begins to form secretive bonds with his strange hosts.

Vincent's new mysterious lover lives in fear of a murderer she calls "Mr. Destronelli." As their relationship develops and she slowly loses her mind, she becomes convinced that every man she's ever been with has actually been Mr. Destronelli in disguise — including Vincent.

After he is buried alive by a mysterious figure, a hapless artist begins to think the form of intense and scattered fractals, that evoke his artistic background and tenuous relationship with religious iconography.

A man who is trying to find his place in the world tries his hand at multiple professions but ultimately settles with painting. Though he has talent as a painter, he leaves his patrons unsatisfied, taking wild artistic liberties he takes with commissions—a lesson which his two closest friends will come to learn when he paints a portrait of one of them.