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Pawtrait Atelier

How it works

From your photo to a framed portrait

Four steps between your phone photo and the wall. You choose a style, we compose and review, and you see the result before you pay for anything — then it goes out printed and framed.

I

You choose a style

From a classic oil portrait to an artful print — every style is made from your own photo. You choose the room that suits your cat.

Cat portrait in a Renaissance style — Old Souls collection
Cat portrait after the Mona Lisa — Art House collection
Cat portrait as a poet at the writing desk — Old Souls collection
II

You send a single photo

One photo is enough, as long as the face is sharp and the light is reasonable. An ordinary phone photo will do; avoid movement and harsh backlight. If we have doubts, we ask for another photo rather than make a middling portrait.

Example of a good submission: a sharp face in daylight
Like this — sharp face, daylight
III

We make it — you approve

The portrait is built up in your chosen style from your photo and reviewed by us for likeness, light and fur. The image is made with the help of modern imaging; the eye and the judgement stay human. You see the preview before you pay for anything.

A finished cat portrait after Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring, ready for review
Your preview — before you order
IV

Printed, framed and delivered

We print with pigment ink on Hahnemühle Photo Rag — 100% cotton paper at 308 g/m², with a hand check on every sheet. The frame is included, by size and colour. Within five working days the work hangs ready on your wall.

A framed, finished cat portrait ready to hang
Framed and ready to hang

The transformation

From home photo to portrait

The same cat, the same day. Slide the seam of light and see for yourself.

The same animal, as a finished art portrait
Original home photograph of a cat
your photothe portrait
“The young tom” — after a home photograph

Materials

What it is printed on

Paper
Hahnemühle Photo Rag — 100% cotton, 308 g/m²
Ink
pigment ink, archival
Control
proof print · calibrated monitors · hand check on every sheet
Sizes
10 × 15 to 30 × 40 cm — from €39
Frames
white · bronze · gold · grey · silver · black — included, varying per size
Guarantee
not satisfied within 14 days: reprint or refund

The atelier’s promise

Attention over volumea small atelier, every submission seen by us
You see it firstyou only pay once the portrait is right
Made to lastarchival paper that endures for generations