Start hereCandlelit Study
Warm flame light, close and quiet
Lit by a single flame, close enough to feel warm. The quietest style we make, and the one that reads best in a hallway or beside a bed.
Every style, in one place
Five ways to paint the same animal. Each one is a different set of instructions to the brush — the pet stays exactly itself. Every one of them is free to preview with your own photo.
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Noble Portrait
Renaissance nobility, oil on canvas
The one most people start with. Your pet in the manner of a 17th-century court portrait — heavy fabric, a dark ground, and light falling from one high window.
Baroque Shadow
One shaft of light, everything else in darkness
Everything the light doesn't reach falls away into black. The most dramatic of the five, and the one that holds a room from across it.
Silver Screen
Monochrome studio glamour, tinted eyes
Monochrome studio glamour from the age of the great portrait photographers, with the eyes tinted by hand afterwards.
Ink & Wash
Drawn ink line, clean white paper, colour where the light turns
A drawn ink line through layered colour, lit from one side, with paint flicked across the bare paper around it and colour escaping the edges in runs. The coat keeps its own true colour — the cool notes sit only where the form turns into shadow.
Not sure which one?
Start with Candlelit Study — it takes about fifteen seconds, and you will have a much better idea once you are looking at your own pet instead of somebody else's. You can switch styles from the menu at any time, before or after.
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