A portrait of someone you love in the Heirloom style
Warm ochre and umber, controlled brushwork, thick paint in the lights — the look of a portrait that has hung in the family for a century, made from one phone photo, from $69.
What Heirloom does with a portrait. The face is kept exactly as photographed and painted in warm, blended tones with no smoothing; the impasto goes into hair, cloth and the lit cheek. It is the style people choose for a portrait that has to hang beside the grandparents'.
The photo. Daylight, eyes visible, the face filling a good part of the frame. Older, scanned or slightly blurred photos usually work at 8×10 to 16×20. We never smooth, slim or retouch a face.
The size. 16×20 in a hallway; 24×36 for a single face over a console table or a mantel.
How to start. Upload one photo and see it painted in Heirloom free, in about fifteen seconds. Leave an email to see the other five styles and make up to three free adjustments. A person checks the full-resolution proof and you approve it before anything prints; if it isn't right, we repaint it free.