
Turn Your Trip Photos Into a Painted Sketchbook Website
Turn trip photos into a painted sketchbook website with Claude Code: photos in Google Drive, notes in a Google Sheet, each page drawn in acrylic markers.

- 173
- people built it
- 6
- steps
- 1
- prompt
- About 4–5 hours
- to build
- Beginner
- level
- Website Building
- category
What you’ll get.
Read the free preview.
- Tools we used03
- 1. Put your photos in Google Drive05
- 2. Write your Google Sheet07
- 3. Install Claude Code09
- In the full guide11
What you’ll build.
Short videoComing soon
Straight answers.
Does this need a database or a backend?
No. The finished book is an HTML file and a photos folder, and the paintings are drawn in the reader’s browser. The sheet and Drive are only read while Claude builds it.
Are the paintings AI images?
No image model is used. Claude studies each photo and writes the painting as drawing code, in the same acrylic-marker style on every page.
How many pages can it have?
As many as you have rows. 8 to 15 painted spreads reads best; each extra page adds 10 to 15 minutes to the build.
Do my photos have to stay public on Drive?
No. They only need to be shared while Claude downloads them at the start. After that you can set Drive back to Restricted.
Can I do it with Gemini?
Yes, with Gemini CLI and the same prompt. The paintings come from each model’s own judgement of the photo, so try page one in both.

