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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 send one photo, choose a size and a style, and see the portrait before you pay for anything — only then does it go out printed and framed.

I

You send a single photo

One ordinary phone photo is enough. Make sure the head fills the frame, the eyes are sharp, and the light falls from the side rather than straight from behind. If we have doubts about a photo, we ask for another one rather than make a middling portrait.

Gold-line engraving: a phone stands on the edge of a worktable showing a snapshot of a spaniel, head large in frame; a card with the same photo lifts off the screen toward the upper right, a loose photograph beside it
II

You choose a size and a style

The size first — Mini 10 × 15, Classic 21 × 29.7 or Grand 30 × 40 cm, the frame always included. Then you set the crop yourself and choose from sixty styles across three collections: Old Souls, Art House and Signature.

Gold-line engraving: three framed portraits of the same spaniel side by side on a wooden ledge, in three sizes and three frames — thin, wide and carved — and in three styles, from sketch to nobleman
III

We make it — you approve

The portrait is built up in your 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 — and we only print once you have approved it.

Gold-line engraving: on a table easel, the portrait of the spaniel in a high collar; a long-handled loupe leans against the easel, a second lies on the table; in front, a card with that same portrait in miniature and a gold check mark
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. You choose the colour of the frame; it is included in the price. Five working days after your approval, PostNL delivers the work framed and ready to hang.

Gold-line engraving: the framed portrait of the spaniel hangs by a ring from a single hook; below it, the opened shipping box with tissue paper and a protective sheet it came in

The transformation

From home photo to portrait

The same animal, 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
“Rembrandt Gold” — after a home photograph
Two loose art prints of a cat portrait overlapping on a wooden table, the grain of the cotton paper and the white deckled edge clearly visible in raking light

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
Mini 10 × 15 cm €39 · Classic 21 × 29.7 cm €99 · Grand 30 × 40 cm €159
Frames
white · bronze · gold · grey · silver · black — included, choice varies per size
Delivery
five working days after your approval, by PostNL
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