Order Pet Paintings

How To Order Your Customized Photo Paintings

Planning Your Base Photo Session

High resolution base photos are required for the best possible results.
Ideal lighting is outdoor natural daylight out of direct sunlight or brightly lit indoors. Poor lighting will produce an undesirable portrait.
Photos of your pet taken at eye level work best. Looking away or at the camera are fine. 3/4 turn looks better than straight forward for full body portraits
For period costume or classic head/shoulder portraits, close up photos with minimal distortion are preferred for best quality.
We cannot work with blurry or out of focus photos.
Please be sure long floppy or tall ears are in frame!

Canvas Dog Portrait

How The Portrait Process Works

STEP 1 - Choose Your Background

Start by choosing your portrait style or costume, as well as size. If you need multiple pets included in this portrait please just contact us for suggestions and advice.
For full body portraits please be aware some backgrounds work best with certain poses that are posted.

STEP 2 - Send Us Your Chosen Photos

We will review the photos you send to make sure it will produce an amazing portrait. If we feel these will not work well, we will contact you for any and all alternatives.
Once we have agreed on a base image, we will guide you through the order process. When payment is received, we will begin creating your once in a lifetime portrait.
When completed we will present you with a proof to approve. Once approved, your order will be sent out for printing. No returns on approved custom work.

STEP 3 - Delivery

Your order will take appx 2 weeks for printing. Once we received the finished portrait, we will ship it out within 48 hours by US postal system. We will provide you with a tracking number.

Portrait Policies

Extracting pet from original background is time consuming and tedious. Great care must be taken not to allow any halo of original surrounding colors to remain. This process also requires the majority of hair/fur to be removed and digitally redesigned. Fur or hair will be replaced as closely as possible. Please remove collar or halter/bridle before photographing your pet unless you want it to be part of the finished portrait.
We are happy to accommodate special requests such as custom background scenes or other components whenever possible.
Price shown includes 1 pet - additional small pets are more than welcome for an additional fee.
Paint effect is much more evident on longer haired animals than on short hair.
We reserve the right to display finished portraits for advertising.

Custom Background Scenes From Photos You Provide - Additional fees may be incurred due to complexity of images provided - in addition to posted portrait pricing

PLEASE NOTE: Each monitor displays colors and light/dark differently, so your actual portrait may differ slightly from what you see here on your desktop computer or cell phone.

Samples of Good Lighting, Resolution and Posing

Photo of Dog Photo of Cat Photo of Puppy