A portrait of someone you love in the Palette Knife style
High colour in broad, flat planes, the way a palette knife lays paint — the boldest, most graphic of our styles, from $49.
What Palette Knife does with a portrait. The face in wide knife strokes of high colour — bold and modern, best for one person or a couple rather than a group, where the simplification would lose the smaller faces.
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 Palette Knife 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.