A portrait of someone you love in the Museum style
Your subject alone on a single deep olive-umber field, lit from one side — the way museum portraits are painted — from $49, made to order.
What Museum does with a portrait. One person, or two, on a deep quiet ground with the light from one side — the museum portrait. A busy photo becomes a calm painting; the face is the only thing in it.
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 16×24. We never smooth, slim or retouch a face.
The size. 16×24 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 Museum free, in about 20 seconds. Your first three paintings are free; leave an email for as many more as you like, and change up to five details free. A person checks the full-resolution proof, and you see it before anything prints; if it isn't right, we repaint it until it is.