Four holidays · one family · one photograph

Everyone you love, in one painting.

Send one photograph — the cousins, the grandparents, the dog who thinks he is a person — and we paint your family into the holidays you already keep, by the traditions that were old when your grandparents were young. Three come back free, and you choose the one that hangs.

Free previews · a print from $35 · the file from $14

The Four

One hundred and twenty traditions · four rooms

Sent in on the left. Sent back on the right.

Our own households · every photograph generated, never a customer

Three kids, one porch, one flash — the photograph as it was sent inPhotoThe same photograph painted as LED Porch RealismPainted
LED Porch Realism
Six adults, one small kitchen — the photograph as it was sent inPhotoThe same photograph painted as Kitchen DocumentaryPainted
Kitchen Documentary
Christmas morning, six a.m., blurry — the photograph as it was sent inPhotoThe same photograph painted as Christmas Morning RealismPainted
Christmas Morning Realism
Five coats, one balcony, midnight — the photograph as it was sent inPhotoThe same photograph painted as Rooftop at MidnightPainted
Rooftop at Midnight
A family of five, squinting — the photograph as it was sent inPhotoThe same photograph painted as Backyard Golden HourPainted
Backyard Golden Hour
Four of them, one armchair — the photograph as it was sent inPhotoThe same photograph painted as Nordic MinimalPainted
Nordic Minimal
Seven of them, one folding table — the photograph as it was sent inPhotoThe same photograph painted as Backyard FootballPainted
Backyard Football
Two kids, one uncooperative beagle — the photograph as it was sent inPhotoThe same photograph painted as Cut-Paper DioramaPainted
Cut-Paper Diorama
Three kids, one porch, one flash — the photograph as it was sent inPhotoThe same photograph painted as Feature-Animation StillPainted
Feature-Animation Still
Six adults, one small kitchen — the photograph as it was sent inPhotoThe same photograph painted as Magazine-Cover AmericanaPainted
Magazine-Cover Americana
Christmas morning, six a.m., blurry — the photograph as it was sent inPhotoThe same photograph painted as Victorian Christmas CardPainted
Victorian Christmas Card
Five coats, one balcony, midnight — the photograph as it was sent inPhotoThe same photograph painted as Art Deco GalaPainted
Art Deco Gala
A family of five, squinting — the photograph as it was sent inPhotoThe same photograph painted as Currier & Ives HomesteadPainted
Currier & Ives Homestead
Four of them, one armchair — the photograph as it was sent inPhotoThe same photograph painted as Saying GracePainted
Saying Grace
Seven of them, one folding table — the photograph as it was sent inPhotoThe same photograph painted as Table, Lit by PhonesPainted
Table, Lit by Phones
Two kids, one uncooperative beagle — the photograph as it was sent inPhotoThe same photograph painted as Trick-or-Treat IllustrationPainted
Trick-or-Treat Illustration
Three kids, one porch, one flash — the photograph as it was sent inPhotoThe same photograph painted as Porch-Light Family PortraitPainted
Porch-Light Family Portrait
Six adults, one small kitchen — the photograph as it was sent inPhotoThe same photograph painted as Three-Colour Riso HarvestPainted
Three-Colour Riso Harvest
Christmas morning, six a.m., blurry — the photograph as it was sent inPhotoThe same photograph painted as Papercut LightboxPainted
Papercut Lightbox
Five coats, one balcony, midnight — the photograph as it was sent inPhotoThe same photograph painted as Confetti VectorPainted
Confetti Vector
A family of five, squinting — the photograph as it was sent inPhotoThe same photograph painted as Flat Editorial VectorPainted
Flat Editorial Vector
Four of them, one armchair — the photograph as it was sent inPhotoThe same photograph painted as Holiday Editorial VectorPainted
Holiday Editorial Vector
Seven of them, one folding table — the photograph as it was sent inPhotoThe same photograph painted as Two-Colour RisoPainted
Two-Colour Riso
Two kids, one uncooperative beagle — the photograph as it was sent inPhotoThe same photograph painted as Graphic-Novel InkPainted
Graphic-Novel Ink

Chapter I · Halloween · 51 days

Spooky enough to remember. Safe enough to frame.

Thirty ways to be scared and delighted at once.

Your kids as a sheet ghost and a cardboard knight on the porch. Your grandmother in a Victorian paper theatre. The dog leading the costume parade down Main Street. Pick the Cute Side for the picture book or the Dark Side for the ghost story, and nothing on either shelf would frighten a child.

The Cute Side

19 traditions

Chapter II · Thanksgiving · 77 days

The turkey is not the point.

From the carving of the bird to the backyard game.

The turkey coming through the door. The touch-football game on the lawn before dinner. Grace, with every chair full. We paint the aunts and the cousins and the one who always carves, and we keep every face exactly as you sent it.

The Long Table

30 traditions

Chapter III · Christmas · 106 days

Seven a.m., and nobody is dressed yet.

Carollers, skating ponds, and the paper everywhere.

The paper flying on Christmas morning. Carollers at your own front door. The whole village out on the skating pond. Every tradition here was old when your grandparents were young, and yours is the family inside it.

Thirty Mornings

30 traditions

Chapter IV · New Year’s · 113 days

Who was still awake at midnight?

Grand ballrooms, torchlight, and the kitchen countdown.

Pots and pans for drums at five to midnight. The grand-hotel ballroom with the balloons coming down. Sparklers in the snow. Whoever made it to midnight makes it into the painting.

Everyone Still Awake

30 traditions

The one rule

The face stays. Everything else is repainted.

We are a family of artists, and the holiday art we kept being sent was one look with the colours swapped: orange in October, red in December. That is a costume, not a tradition. So each room here has its own painters behind it — Currier & Ives and Nast, the Brandywine and Hudson River schools, Rackham, Whistler, Bruegel in the snow and the magazine covers of the 1940s — and none of the four would recognise the others.

What we keep is you. The faces, the coats, the dog and the front of your house are held exactly as you sent them, and a judge scores every painting for likeness before you see it. We paint children here, and only here: a parent or guardian signs for every photograph with a child in it, the darker Halloween shelf is closed to them, and every painting with a child is looked at twice before it is shown and once more, by a person, before it is printed.

Most of the AI work doesn’t resonate with us either. We spent months on these rooms so that at least one of them resonates with you.

How it reaches your wall

What happens after you send the photograph

  1. Send one photograph

    Everyone in one frame, front-on and well lit. Adults, children, animals and homes.

  2. Pick a room, pick a tradition

    Thirty in each room, antique to right now. Three previews come back free, watermarked.

  3. Hang it, wear it, send it

    Archival prints, canvas, sweatshirts, mugs and totes — shipped tracked, in time.

Free previews · no card

Approve one, or walk away owing nothing.

Three paintings come back from one photograph, watermarked. Keep the one you love, hang it, wear it, mail it to the cousins. We hope that you are just as overjoyed as we are watching your family turn into a classic work of art.

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