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Custom Seascape & Coastal Paintings
Your beach, harbor or favorite stretch of ocean, painted for your wall. Shape the horizon, tune the blues and choose between quiet water and sculpted waves.
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Your reference · Your dimensions · Your destination
A real studio painting of a coastal bay. The cliff shapes, curved shoreline and bands of surf carry the composition.
Choose the Water, Horizon & Mood of Your Seascape
Calm water or breaking surf
Choose the movement first. A quiet bay depends on subtle changes of tone; breaking waves need space for foam, spray and direction.
An identifiable coast or an imagined one
For a specific beach, identify its headland, rocks or pier. For an invented coast, send separate references for the water color and shoreline shape.
A sea-led or sky-led composition
A low horizon gives the sky more influence. A higher horizon puts more attention on waves and shore. Mark the balance you prefer on the reference.
Coastal Subjects for Your Custom Seascape
Our studio is in Dafen Art Village in Shenzhen, China. Here is the range of coastal subjects we take on.
Breaking waves
A single curling wave or a long line of surf. Smooth and glassy, or built up in thick palette-knife ridges.
Calm beaches
Pale sand, quiet turquoise water, one sail on the horizon. The most asked-for scene above a sofa or bed.
Harbors and sailboats
Moored boats, colored houses reflected in still water, or white sails racing across a deep blue bay.
Lighthouses
The lighthouse from your town, on its own rocks, painted from your photo so the shape and color are right.
Mediterranean villages
Terracotta roofs, white walls, lemon trees and flowers over the sea. See our Mediterranean and coastal collection. Santorini, Amalfi and Provence scenes have their own custom Mediterranean paintings page.
Your own coast
The view from your deck, the cove where you swim, the dock at the cottage. Painted from the view you actually have. Some places that matter sit far from any shoreline, and you can see how we handle those on our paintings of places that matter page.
Your Coastal Photo to a Seascape Painting
Yes, we can paint the view from your beach house from a photo you took. A phone photo is fine. Send the largest file you have, and two or three angles if you can. Tell us what matters most in the scene, such as the water color or the pier, and we paint toward that.
Blending two photos into one painting
We can combine several photos into one composition. A common request is a sailboat from one photo and a lighthouse from another in one scene. Send both, tell us where each should sit, and we compose the scene. We can also add personal details, like your boat’s hull color.
Choosing the time of day
Your photo does not have to be the final mood. Shot at noon but want golden hour? Say so. We can shift the light to dawn, sunset or overcast gray. If the sky matters more to you than the water, start with our custom sunset paintings instead.
Your own photos and our catalog designs are useful starting points. For a photographer’s image, drone still or painting reference, share the source so we can discuss the approach and any permission needed. You can also explore our reproductions hub.
Custom Seascape Sizes & Panoramic Formats
Illustration of dimensions. Choose your own width and height.
What changes this commission’s quote
Painting detail
Wave complexity, shoreline features and any boats or figures.
Surface & presentation
Painted water effects versus raised foam; surface and framing choice.
Delivery planning
Canvas size, destination and whether the finished surface can travel rolled or needs rigid protection.
A rule many designers use is to make the painting about two-thirds the width of the furniture under it.
- Above an 84 inch sofa. Two-thirds of 84 inches is about 56 inches wide. We can paint that exact width.
- Above a bed. Match the headboard width or go a little narrower.
- Above a console. Keep the painting narrower than the furniture, horizon near eye level.
- Long walls and hallways. A wide panorama, or a set of two or three matching seascapes.
Wide panoramic ocean paintings
Yes, we paint panoramas. A 72 by 30 inch ocean panorama is a custom size, and any custom size is painted at the same rate as our standard sizes. We offer 60 standard sizes from 24 by 20 inches up to 80 by 60 inches, plus sets of two and three. A single canvas wider than 80 inches is quoted case by case. For a very long wall, a multi-panel set is often easier to ship and hang than one giant stretcher.
Match Your Seascape Painting to Your Room
The blue in a seascape has to live with the blues you already own. Send a paint code, a fabric swatch or a cushion cover, and we mix the water and sand colors to match. Before painting starts, we photograph the mixed color under daylight and send it to you for approval. If the teal is too green, we adjust and send another photo. Read more on our color-matched paintings page.
Seascape Styles from Smooth Water to Textured Waves
You can have your waves either way. Smooth, glazed water suits calm beaches and misty harbors. Thick texture suits breaking surf, where ridges of paint stand off the canvas and catch the light like foam. Ask for heavy texture and our painters build the crests with a palette knife. One painter takes a canvas from start to finish, and how we paint walks you through that order of work.
Heavy texture ships stretched or framed. We do not recommend rolling thick impasto because the ridges can crack when the canvas is curved. Heavy-texture pieces also sit at the top of their production band because thick paint has to dry between layers, and oil takes longer still. See our textured paintings guide.
Seascape Painting Materials & Frame Options
Both mediums are available and you pick. Oil blends softly and glows, which suits sunsets and misty water. Acrylic dries faster and gives crisp edges, which suits bright umbrellas and sharp sails.
| Medium | Oil or acrylic on canvas. Your choice. Never printed. |
|---|---|
| Canvas | Premium linen, on solid wood bars when stretched. |
| Sizes | 60 standard sizes, 24 by 20 in to 80 by 60 in, plus sets of two and three. Any other size at the same rate. |
| Finish | Rolled in a tube, stretched, or framed in black, white, wood, silver or gold. All five frame colors cost the same. |
| Texture | Smooth or heavy palette-knife texture. Heavy texture ships stretched or framed only. |
| Production | 7 to 10 business days for 1 to 5 pieces. 10 to 15 business days for 6 to 20. |
Custom Seascape Timeline & Approval
Painting time + delivery time
Your arrival date depends on both. Send your deadline and destination so we can check rush options, production time and the shipping schedule.
Our studio schedule depends on quantity, size, medium and texture. One to five paintings take 7 to 10 business days. Six to twenty take 10 to 15. Pieces 36 by 48 inches and larger, heavy texture and multi-panel sets sit at the top of their band.
- Brief Send photos, size, medium, texture and color references through the quote form. WhatsApp replies are usually immediate; email replies usually arrive within 12 hours.
- Color approval If we are matching colors, you approve a daylight photo of the mixed paint first.
- Painting We send progress photos while the canvas is on the easel.
- Final photos We photograph the finished painting and send it to you. Nothing leaves the studio until you approve.
- Shipping Express by FedEx or DHL takes 5 to 10 business days. Air and sea freight are available. Freight is quoted at cost.
If a piece has a defect that is our fault, we repaint it at our cost. Payment is usually a 50 percent deposit with the balance before release, by wire transfer, PayPal or card.
Coastal Painting Commissions for Rentals & Hotels
If you furnish beach rentals, you can order 20 seascapes with the same look. Tell us the palette and style and we keep every canvas in that family while varying the scene, so no two units match exactly. Trade pricing starts from one piece, improves at 6 pieces and again at 21, and mixed designs count together.
Twenty pieces take 10 to 15 business days. Rolled canvas is the cheapest way to ship more than about 20 pieces, so for volume orders we suggest smooth or light texture. We confirm the crate or tube count before booking transport. For a first order we can paint a sample. It is a separate single-piece order, and the larger order is quoted on its own.
Popular starting points
Beach rental portfolios that need a matched set. Boutique hotels and seafood restaurants. Designers with a coastal scheme and a paint deck. Stagers who want large, calm water above the sofa. Anyone with a photo of a place they love.
Let’s discuss the details
Need a coastal painting for a particular date, or want to work from a photographer’s image or another painting? Send the details and source so we can discuss timing and any permission needed. If shipping rolled matters, we can discuss lighter texture; raised impasto is better supported stretched or framed.
Seascape Paintings to Customize
Our ocean and seascape collection and our Mediterranean and coastal collection offer a range of designs. Any design can be resized, recolored or adapted. Three to look at first:
- Deep teal seascape wave heavy impasto relief canvas TA01, a breaking wave in raised palette-knife ridges.
- Calm turquoise sea and sailboat impressionist painting IA84, one white sail on quiet water beyond a pale beach.
- Bright harbor town and boats impressionist painting IA95, colored houses reflected among moored boats.
Did not find what you like? Send us what you like and we paint it
If nothing in the catalog is quite right, that is normal. Most seascape commissions start with something you already have: a photo, a screenshot, a Pinterest board, an AI-generated image, a paint chip. Send it through the quote form with your wall size and we reply with a plan and a price. We can take the colors from one image and the composition from another, or change a catalog design so the lighthouse is yours. Before you write in, it helps to read how we quote, so you know which details make the number accurate.
Custom Seascape Painting Questions
Can you keep my beach but change the weather or water color?
Will textured waves look like the smooth sea in my photograph?
Can you paint the view from our beach house from a photo I took?
How big should a seascape be above an 84 inch sofa?
Can you paint a wide panorama like 72 by 30 inches?
Can I get the waves in thick texture like a palette knife painting?
Can you match the blues to my paint colors and cushions?
How long does a custom seascape take?
Is it oil or acrylic, and can I pick?
We furnish beach rentals. Can we order 20 seascapes with the same look?
Sea-Inspired Paintings from Our Studio
Real customer commissions, photographed in our studio. Explore the colors, compositions and visible brushwork; select a photograph for a larger view.
Start Your Seascape & Coastal Painting
Send the coastal reference, preferred sea conditions, must-keep shoreline details, dimensions and destination.
Discuss Your Painting on WhatsApp
WhatsApp: usually an immediate reply. Email: usually within 12 hours.
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