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.
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The Four
One hundred and twenty traditions · four rooms
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PaintedChapter 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

1920s Die-Cut Party Decoration
The flat orange-and-black paper decorations of a 1920s parlour party.

Black-Cat Folk Art
Naive New England folk painting — arched cats, a fat moon, a crooked fence.

Candy-Corn Pop
Screen-printed pop art in candy-corn stripes — sweet, loud, kind.

Jack-o'-Lantern Realism
Cosy October night — a porch of carved pumpkins, one warm glow.

Trick-or-Treat Illustration
Golden-age children's-book illustration — lanterns, leaves, a bag of sweets.

Witch's Cottage Gouache
A snug, moss-roofed cottage of potions and candles — cosy, not creepy.

Porch-Light Family Portrait
A 1950s magazine cover on Halloween night — costumes, the porch lamp, the bowl held out.

Pumpkin-Patch Afternoon
Golden October light, a field of pumpkins, hay wagons — painted the American Impressionist way.

Victorian Paper Theatre
A toy-theatre stage of cut paper — the subject on the boards, a cardboard moon above.

Harvest-Party Genre Scene
A nineteenth-century genre painting — the barn party, the apple tub, lantern light on every face.

Black-Cat Costume Parade
A children's-book parade — everyone in costume, marching down Main Street with a black cat leading.

Harvest-Moon Cornfield
Regionalist oil — a full harvest moon over corn shocks, a scarecrow, the subject in the lane.

Scherenschnitte Silhouette
German-American paper-cutting — one sheet of black paper, cut into the subject and a Halloween border.

Cider-Mill Watercolour
A New England cider mill in October — transparent watercolour, apples in crates, steam from the press.

LED Porch Realism
Halloween as it actually looks now — LED string lights, an inflatable on the lawn, a minivan in the drive.

Graphic-Novel Ink
Heavy modern ink, halftone shadow, one spot colour — a page from a contemporary graphic novel.

Cut-Paper Diorama
Layered paper cut by hand and lit from the side — a contemporary craft diorama.

Feature-Animation Still
A frame from a modern animated feature — clean line, lit volumes, autumn palette.

Two-Colour Riso
Fluorescent orange and black on newsprint — a modern risograph gig-poster print.
The Dark Side
11 traditions

Crosshatched Storybook Macabre
Pen-and-ink Edwardian gloom with a dry wit — the gothic nursery.

1930s Monster-Movie Lobby Card
Hand-tinted studio horror poster — fog, castle, lightning, one dramatic face.

Victorian Spirit Photograph
A sepia cabinet card with a faint translucent visitor in the background.

Sleepy Hollow Nocturne
Hudson River School moonlight — covered bridge, mist, a headless silhouette far off.

1950s Horror-Comic Cover
Four-colour pulp cover — ben-day dots, a screaming green sky, a wink.

Haunted-House Matte Painting
Cinematic matte-painted mansion on a hill — every window lit, one storm.

Ghost-Story Tintype
A wet-plate tintype at dusk — silver and sepia, a lantern, a grave sense of occasion, not fear.

Gaslamp Fog Nocturne
A Whistler-style nocturne — fog, one gaslamp, the subject a warm figure in a blue-grey night.

Hollow-Tree Storybook
A Rackham-style storybook plate — gnarled trees with faces, owls, the subject brave in the lantern glow.

Masquerade Ballroom
A candlelit masquerade in an old mansion — velvet, gilt, half-masks held on sticks, a chandelier.

Neon Street Nocturne
A wet city street after dark — neon signage, sodium light, long reflections.
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

Magazine-Cover Americana
The 1940s Saturday Evening Post cover tradition — a table, a turkey, a story.

Currier & Ives Homestead
Hand-coloured lithograph — the farmhouse, the sleigh, the return home.

American Folk Harvest
Naive farm-scene painting — pumpkin wagons, corn shocks, a whole busy valley.

Farmhouse Egg Tempera
Dry-brush tempera realism — weathered board, a window, still November light.

Hudson River Autumn
Luminous landscape oil — blazing maples, a still lake, cathedral light.

Dutch Harvest Still Life
Seventeenth-century abundance — pheasant, grapes, pewter, a single candle.

Regionalist Harvest Mural
Grant Wood rolling fields — rounded haystacks, patterned rows, clean light.

Pennsylvania Dutch Fraktur
Illuminated folk certificate — tulips, distelfinks, hearts, a harvest border.

Harvest Quilt Block
Pieced-cotton patchwork — the subject stitched into a maple-leaf quilt.

Vermont Woodcut
Two-colour woodblock print — barn, birches, geese, a cider press.

Homer Autumn Watercolour
Winslow Homer transparent washes — Adirondack lake, guide boat, red leaves.

Pilgrim-Era Dutch Portrait
A 1620s Leiden portrait — black cloth, white collar, one candle, one pumpkin.

Saying Grace
The whole table, heads about to bow — a magazine-cover moment of a full house at dinner.

Kitchen-Steam Interior
A Dutch-lit kitchen — pots steaming, a window, the family crowding in to help and taste.

Leaf-Pile Afternoon
Golden light, a raked pile of maple leaves, the subject mid-laugh — painted in loose American oil.

Brandywine Farm Field
The Brandywine tradition — a dry stubble field, a weathered barn, the subject standing in thin winter light.

Backyard Football
The Thanksgiving game on the lawn — sweaters, a leather ball, a mid-century sporting-cover style.

Carving the Bird
The carving moment at the head of the table — a Currier & Ives print, hand-coloured.

Needlework Sampler
A cross-stitch sampler — the subject in tiny stitches, a border of turkeys, pumpkins and wheat.

Coming Home for Thanksgiving
The homecoming on a small-town platform — steam, suitcases, the embrace, a 1940s illustration.

Hearthside After Dinner
The fire lit, plates cleared, everyone sunk into chairs — a tonalist oil in amber and brown.

First-Harvest Tapestry
A woven tapestry — the subject at a long outdoor harvest table, seventeenth-century in dress and weave.

The Pie Table
A Chardin-quiet still life with the subject behind the pies — pumpkin, pecan, apple, one candle.

The Road Home
A station-wagon on a country road under November trees — the drive home, in a warm 1950s poster style.

Kitchen Documentary
The hour before dinner, painted straight — steam, counter clutter, everyone in the way.

Flat Editorial Vector
The magazine feature illustration of now — flat shapes, limited palette, generous white.

Three-Colour Riso Harvest
Rust, mustard and blue on rough stock — a modern risograph harvest print.

Backyard Golden Hour
The football game on the lawn at four o'clock, painted in late modern light.

Modern Quilt Geometry
Improv piecing in solid cottons — the contemporary quilt tradition, not the sampler.

Table, Lit by Phones
The group photo someone is always taking — modern interior realism, mixed light.
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

Magazine-Cover Christmas
The 1940s magazine-cover tradition — a tree, a fireside, a story.

Nast Harper's Engraving
Thomas Nast's wood-engraved Christmas — holly, a hearth, the first Santa's workshop.

Currier & Ives Sleigh Ride
Hand-coloured lithograph — sleigh bells, a snowy village, chimneys smoking.

Saint Nicholas Fireside
The old midnight-visit painting — his lamp, his red, his sack of wooden toys, and not a soul awake but you.

Victorian Christmas Card
A chromolithograph greeting card — robins, holly, gilt scallops, a frosted window.

Dickens Illustration
Pen, ink and watercolour London — snow, gaslight, a goose in the window.

Nutcracker Stage
A painted ballet set — the Land of Sweets, snowflakes, footlights.

Nordic Tomte Folk Art
Scandinavian folk painting — red cottage, snow, gnomes, straw goats, candle wreaths.

Cathedral Stained Glass
Leaded medieval glass — deep ruby and cobalt, a star, light pouring through.

Avercamp Winter Scene
Dutch Golden Age ice — skaters, windmills, a frozen canal, a pale sky.

Gingerbread House
Royal icing, gumdrops, peppermint — a baked and frosted world.

Luminous Cottage Glow
A snowbound stone cottage, every window lit — the light-filled painting tradition.

Christmas-Morning Cover
The tree, the paper flying, the dog in the ribbons — the magazine-cover moment everyone remembers.

Carollers at the Door
Lanterns, songbooks, snow on the shoulders — a Victorian carolling scene at a lit front door.

Village Skating Pond
An American naive folk-art scene — the frozen pond, the sleighs, the whole village out.

Advent-Calendar Window
The subject framed in an opened advent window — paper snow, glitter, a German paper-craft tradition.

Winter Hunters' Landscape
The Bruegel winter — a high view over a snowed village, the subject in the foreground with the dog.

Tin-Toy Christmas
A 1930s lithographed tin-toy look — the subject as a painted-tin tableau with a wind-up key.

Midnight-Mass Doorway
Snow, candlelight, the church door open — a nocturne in blue and gold.

Gingerbread-Kitchen Cover
Flour on noses, icing bags, the gingerbread house half-built — a bright mid-century cover.

Snow-Globe Scene
The subject inside a glass snow globe — a tiny lit cottage, falling flakes, a carved wooden base.

Lit Window at Night
A quiet American-realist night scene — one warm window, the subject inside, snow on the street.

Stable Lantern Scene
A lantern-lit barn on Christmas Eve — hay, warm animals, the subject in the straw-gold light.

Yule-Log Hall
A medieval great hall — the yule log, holly and ivy, the subject at the feast in illuminated colour.

Nordic Minimal
Pale wood, one paper star, snow light — the contemporary Scandinavian Christmas.

Animated Holiday Special
A frame from a modern animated Christmas special — clean line, warm lit volumes.

Lit Window, From Outside
The house from the sidewalk after dark — cold blue snow, one warm window.

Papercut Lightbox
Layered white paper lit from behind — a contemporary craft lightbox.

Holiday Editorial Vector
The modern holiday feature illustration — flat shapes, three colours, real air.

Christmas Morning Realism
Six a.m., pyjamas, paper everywhere — painted exactly as the morning looks now.
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

Art Deco Gala
Gilded 1925 geometry — sunburst, black lacquer, a champagne tower.

Leyendecker New Year Cover
J.C. Leyendecker's crisp cover brushwork — top hat, streamers, the stroke of twelve.

Klimt Midnight Gold
Gold-leaf mosaic against a deep-blue midnight — spirals, stars, a kiss of champagne.

Whistler Fireworks Nocturne
A smoky blue nocturne — falling rockets over black water, the way Whistler saw it.

Mid-Century Cocktail Illustration
Fifties gouache advertising — coupe glasses, starbursts, tuxedo black.

Barbier Fashion Plate
A 1920s pochoir plate in the manner of George Barbier — silk, fur, a masked ball.

Bauhaus Poster
Primary geometry — circle, bar, diagonal, one red, the new year as a design.

Nightclub Line Drawing
One flowing ink line, a Broadway nightclub, a few flat spots of colour.

First Sunrise
The Japanese hatsuhinode — a red sun over the sea, cranes, a woodblock dawn.

Hogmanay Hearth
A Scottish New Year — tartan, a peat fire, a dram, a lump of coal on the step.

Sargent Evening Portrait
Bravura society oil — black velvet, one candle, silver reflected in the brush.

Confetti Risograph
Two-colour riso print — fluorescent pink and midnight blue, a storm of confetti.

Kitchen Countdown
Pots as drums, a clock near twelve, the whole family up past bedtime — a warm mid-century cover.

Grand-Hotel Ballroom
A 1920s hotel ballroom at midnight — balloons falling, a big band, black tie and sequins.

Snowfield Fireworks
Fireworks over a snowy field — sparklers in hand, breath in the cold, a nocturne in blue and gold.

First-Snow Woodblock
A Hiroshige-style ukiyo-e print — New Year's morning, first snow, pine and plum at the gate.

Belle-Époque Champagne Poster
A Mucha-tradition poster — the subject in a halo of gold and ivy, bubbles rising, a mosaic border.

City Midnight Crowd
Confetti and light in a city square at midnight — a 1950s painterly reportage illustration.

Resolutions Ledger
A Victorian engraved ledger page — the subject at a writing desk, quill up, a blank list of resolutions.

Fireside Toast
Glasses raised by the fire at midnight — a Sargent-warm interior, velvet, candle and firelight.

Torchlight Procession
A Scottish torchlight procession — tartan, fire, pipers, the subject carrying a torch through the snow.

Lantern-Festival Gouache
Red paper lanterns and gold paper-cuts for the new year — bright gouache in the Chinese folk tradition.

Balcony at Midnight
A city balcony as the clock strikes — champagne, a cityscape of fireworks, an Art Deco nocturne.

Turning the Calendar
The old calendar coming down, the new one going up — a warm domestic mid-century illustration.

Rooftop at Midnight
A city rooftop as it goes off — modern realism, cold air, warm coats.

Confetti Vector
Flat modern party graphics — bold shapes, confetti as geometry, no gradients.

Neon Countdown
Lit by a screen and a neon sign — a modern nocturne, no clock face.

Cut-and-Paste Collage
Torn magazine paper, tape and gouache — a contemporary collage.

Line and Wash
One ink line, one wash — the modern reportage sketch, done fast and sure.

First Morning Realism
January first, late light, the room still full — modern interior realism.
Canvas over the sofa, cotton on a nine-year-old, ceramic on the counter.
Printed, sewn and shipped tracked
Framed CanvasFrom $199Gallery canvas in a slim floating frame. Ready to hang.
Stretched CanvasFrom $79Wrapped over a wooden stretcher. No frame needed.
Archival PrintFrom $35Giclée on archival paper, matted and framed.
SweatshirtFrom $65Heavyweight crewneck, the painting printed across the chest.
Kids’ HoodieFrom $145Printed across the sleeves and the hood too.
Matching TeesFrom $65Same painting, every size in the house.
MugFrom $30Ceramic, wrapped with the painting.
ToteFrom $65Heavy cotton, printed front and back.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
Send one photograph
Everyone in one frame, front-on and well lit. Adults, children, animals and homes.
Pick a room, pick a tradition
Thirty in each room, antique to right now. Three previews come back free, watermarked.
Hang it, wear it, send it
Archival prints, canvas, sweatshirts, mugs and totes — shipped tracked, in time.
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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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