Photographs, and
what they became
Custom oil paintings, hand-painted on canvas from photographs our customers sent. Wedding portraits, family and pet commissions, and artwork made for a wall at home.
Weddings
The photograph from the day, painted
Couples
Anniversaries, engagements, the two of you
Families
Everyone in one frame, held still
Pets
The one who met you at the door
Places
Travel, a first home, a view you miss
Gifts
A commission in someone else's name
Every one is an original oil painting on canvas, hand-painted by a single artist from a photograph you send. Between $1,900 and $2,500, six weeks, guaranteed.
Wedding portraits painted from your photograph
A wedding portrait painting turns one frame from the day into an oil painting you can hang. Couples send us the photograph their photographer delivered. It comes back as a painting, six weeks later, ready to frame.
The couple sent one frame from their photographer's gallery. The painting keeps the light of that afternoon and loses the parked cars behind the trees.
A dog in a flower collar is exactly the kind of detail a painting is for. Every petal in the bouquet was painted by hand.
Special moments, painted in oil
Not every photograph worth painting comes from a wedding. Anniversaries, milestones, an evening that turned out to matter more than anyone expected. If the photograph means something, it can be painted.
Taken on a phone, at the end of the light. Resolution matters less than most people think when the moment is right.
Custom oil paintings for your home
Some commissions are made for a particular wall. A travel photograph, a family portrait, a place you keep returning to. Tell us the size and we will tell you whether the photograph will carry it.
This one arrived as a printed photograph rather than a file. It still painted.
Painting, or photograph
People look twice. That is the point. A portrait painted well sits close enough to the photograph to catch you, then close up it gives itself away, because paint behaves like nothing else.
No print sits underneath any of this. Every canvas is worked by hand in oil, layer over layer, by one artist over several weeks.
A custom painting as a gift
A hand-painted oil portrait is one of the few gifts that has no shelf life. It is not consumed, replaced, or outgrown. It goes on a wall and stays there, and it is the only version of itself in the world.
What makes it work as a gift
It is made from a photograph the recipient already loves, so the sentiment is theirs rather than yours. One artist, one canvas, several weeks of work.
What it costs
Between $1,900 and $2,500, set by canvas size and level of detail. Half commissions the painting, the balance after you have seen it finished in photographs.
How long to allow
Six weeks from the day we have the photograph, guaranteed, plus shipping time to the destination. Worldwide shipping is quoted before you pay anything.
Occasions it suits
Weddings and anniversaries, a first home, a milestone birthday, the arrival or the loss of someone who mattered. Anything where a photograph already carries the weight.
Send the photograph. See it painted before you pay the rest