Painting Music is a project we are co-developing in collaboration with visual artist, Kate Steenhauer. We have developed a system using image processing and Artificial Intelligence which can, in real time, convert the process of a live painted drawing into a musical score that is unique to each performance (see Figure 1 of a photo taken during live performance). This began as a part of an undergraduate Honours project and focused on the question "Is AI good or bad?". Since then, the prototype system has been used in a performance; had a short 20-minute film made about it; been published as a journal paper; and we have been asked to attend several webinars (links to which are provided below). In this blog post, we are looking to provide an insight into the processes within the system, challenges we encountered in the development process, and finally how we are able to translate visual inputs to audio outputs.