The idea taking a deck that has been telescoped with an incomplete faro and brushing it over the rubber side of a close-up mat to leave behind single cards was first published by Roger Curzon as “Wipe Out the Aces” in the March, 1982 issue of Spell-Binder magazine (Vol. 1, No. 11). Douglas A. Wicks later published the same idea in Apocalypse, Vol. 6, No. 9, Sept. 1983, p. 820, under the title “Rembrandt Aces”. Chris Kenner expanded the use of the Ace-production idea to produce four royal flushes in a “Rollover Aces” variant effect (“Paint by the Numbers” in Out of Control, 1992, p. 140). Different handling of the Kenner trick were published by Doug Conn in his Tricks of My Trade, authored by Paul Cummins, 1999, “Flush Brush”, p. 99; and in MAGIC, Vol. 21, No. 12, August 2013, p. 58.

A marketed trick capitalizing on the principle, “Card Artistry”, was released in 2011 by Justin Flom. This uses specially printed cards to produce a “grid” version of the Mona Lisa holding a selected card, or a “brain scan” (an x-ray of a head) with selection in brain.

See also Leipzig's Paintbrush Production.