Gifts by occasion

Gift paintings, by occasion

Pick the occasion and we will tell you which canvas size, which photograph and which deadline actually work — with prices published, not quoted.

A gift painting fails for two reasons, and neither is the painting. It arrives after the occasion, or it arrives in a size the recipient has nowhere to hang. Both are decided at the moment of ordering, which is why each page here starts with a date and a wall rather than with a style.

The prices are published, the same ladder on every page, because a gift that needs three emails to price is not a gift yet — it is a negotiation. What changes between occasions is the deadline arithmetic and the etiquette: who pays, who chooses the photograph, and who is allowed to see the painting before the day.

A painting as a Christmas gift

Hand-painted in oil from a photograph, ordered in time for December — with the arithmetic of mock-up, painting, transit and adjustment laid out on the

A painting for Mother's Day

For the mother who says she does not want anything: a portrait from a photograph she loves, commissioned by you, priced on the page.

A painting for Father's Day

A portrait for a man who does not want to be painted — which is why the best Father's Day commissions are often of his car, his boat or his bench.

A portrait for Valentine's Day

A double portrait for 14 February: how to count back from the date, what two subjects cost, and what to do when the calendar has already gone.

A painting as a retirement gift

Organised by colleagues, given to someone leaving: how to pool the budget, pick the photograph, and have it ready for the last day.

A painting for graduation

The gown, the hood, the young face under all that regalia — a graduation portrait painted from the ceremony photograph, with the dates that make it ar

A painting for a new home

A portrait of the house itself, painted from a photograph, sized for the wall it will hang on — and why it also works for people who rent.

A painting as a wedding gift

For the day itself or for the first anniversary: a wedding painting commissioned by you, with the timing and the pooled budget handled honestly.

A painting as a memorial gift

A portrait commissioned after a loss — from the photographs that exist, at the pace the family wants, with the roles divided sensibly.

A portrait as a birthday gift

Commissioned in secret, timed to the day: which size, which photograph, and how a surprise runs without the recipient finding out.

Paintings as corporate gifts

For client milestones, retirements and long-service recognition: purchase orders, invoicing, sets of canvases, and lead times that survive a procureme

A painting to say thank you

For the teacher, the doctor, the nanny, the landlord: what to paint when a portrait of the person would be strange, and which budget tier fits.

Questions

Before you choose

Six weeks before the date is comfortable and seven is safe: three to five weeks of painting, then three to five business days in transit. Rush delivery brings a single-subject portrait to three weeks including painting for $90.

Yes, and it is common for surprise gifts. It travels in a plain rigid tube with no studio branding on the outside, and the certificate is inside the tube rather than in a separate envelope that gives the game away.

That is a real risk with any gift, and the mitigation is the mock-up: the person paying approves the composition, crop and background before anything is painted. If the recipient would have chosen differently, at least the commissioner chose.

Not sure which one you need?

Send the photograph and the wall dimensions — we will tell you the smallest canvas that will work, and the date we can keep.

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