Custom Nursery & Children’s Paintings

Nursery & Children’s Paintings Options

The messages we get usually start the same way. A child made one drawing the family cannot throw out. It has been on the fridge for a year, the corners are curling, and there is a box in the closet with the rest. Most families cannot keep all of it. Painting one drawing at wall size keeps the one that matters, at a size that says it matters.

The purchase is almost always tied to a date. A first birthday. A nursery going up in the third trimester. A move, when the kids’ room finally becomes a real room. Mother’s Day, when a grandparent wants something no shop sells. That is why the calendar gets its own section below. Years later the same calendar shows up again, when families order graduation and milestone portraits against a date.

What we paint for nurseries and kids’ rooms

One drawing, painted large

Your child’s drawing hand-painted on canvas, line for line, at the size you choose. Crayon, marker, felt pen, finger paint and pencil all work as a source.

Several drawings in one painting

We can combine several photos into one composition. Parents use it for a year of drawings, or one from each sibling, on a single canvas.

A catalog design, changed for the room

We can resize or recolor any of our 286 catalog designs, so a meadow can be repainted in the greens of the crib bedding.

Name and birth details

We hand-letter a name, a date, a time or a set of birth measurements into a painting. Send the exact spelling and figures in writing.

We also paint from a family photo, a digital file, a render or a Pinterest board. Our custom art page lists everything we can work from. If you would rather start from a design we already have and change it, the collections parents pick from most are our colorful paintings, our animal and wildlife paintings and our floral and botanical paintings. Any of them can be repainted at your size and in your colors.

Painting Ideas for a Child’s Room

A portrait can sit alongside a favorite animal or underwater subject. These are finished painting examples to discuss when choosing the theme and colors for your room.

We keep the wobbly lines

This is the part people worry about, and they are right to. A child’s drawing is good because of the parts an adult would fix. The sun in the corner. The arms coming out of the head. The color that went outside the line.

A faithful copy is the default. The drawing gets scaled up and painted just as it is, wobble included. Nothing is straightened, centered or shaded unless you ask. If a detail will not read well at wall size, we say so first and let you decide. Prefer the drawing interpreted rather than copied? Say that too, and we can paint the same shapes in thick palette-knife texture or on a colored ground. One painter takes one canvas from start to finish, and you can read how we paint before you send us anything.

Tell us what to do with the paper itself. Creases, tape marks, a torn corner and the ruled lines of a school notebook can be painted in or left out, and parents split about evenly on this. If the piece has to sit next to a specific wall paint or fabric, ask about color matching when you write to us. We mix the color, photograph it in daylight and get your approval before we start painting.

Choosing a size for a crib wall, a dresser or a playroom

Nursery walls are small, and people still order art that is too small for them. The mistake is easy to make. A drawing that fills a sheet of paper looks big in your hands and vanishes on a wall.

The fix is to measure rather than guess. Do this before you ask for a quote:

Then we handle the rest. Our 60 standard sizes run from 24 by 20 inches up to 80 by 60 inches, plus sets of two and three panels. If none of them suits your wall, we paint to your measurements at the same rate, so an odd size costs no more than a standard one. A playroom usually has one long blank wall, and that is where our larger canvases earn their place. A drawing painted that big stops looking like decoration and starts looking like a mural. Send the wall measurement with your enquiry and we will tell you what we think fits, including when we think you are going too small. If you want to know what else goes into the number, how we quote explains it.

About hanging a painting over the crib

We would rather say this plainly than sell you the wrong thing. A hand-painted canvas on solid wood bars is heavier than a paper print, and a framed one is heavier again. We suggest not hanging anything above the crib at all, and checking your crib maker’s guidance.

Our honest suggestion for babies: put the big painting on the wall opposite the crib, or above the dresser, where the baby can see it and nothing hangs over the sleep surface. That is usually the better wall anyway, because it is the one you see from the doorway.

Heavy texture deserves a second thought too. Thick impasto adds real weight, and it is a hard, raised surface a child will eventually touch, so while a child is small enough to reach it, we steer parents toward a flatter finish. If the hanging worries you, ordering the canvas rolled in a tube is worth considering, because a local framer can stretch it and fit the hardware your wall actually needs.

How it works, and how you stay in control

You are sending a photo of something irreplaceable to a studio abroad that you have never visited. Here is what happens, and where you get to stop.

1. Send the photo Shoot the drawing flat in daylight, no flash, phone straight above, whole sheet in the frame, no filter. Send the largest file your phone will send through the quote form. We never need the paper original.
2. We reply with a quote WhatsApp replies are usually immediate; email replies usually arrive within 12 hours. We then confirm the size, medium, finish and what we will and will not change.
3. You pay a deposit Usually 50 percent, with the balance before the goods are released, by wire transfer, PayPal or card.
4. We paint it On commissions we send progress photos, so you see the drawing taking shape.
5. You approve it We photograph every finished canvas and send you the photos. Nothing leaves the studio until you say yes. If a piece has a defect that is our fault, we repaint it at our cost.
6. It ships Rolled in a tube, stretched on solid wood bars, or framed in black, white, wood, silver or gold. All five frame colors cost the same.

Getting it there before the birthday

Work backward from the date using the real numbers. Production is 7 to 10 business days for 1 to 5 pieces. Express by FedEx or DHL takes another 5 to 10 business days after that. On top of those two, allow a few days at the start for the quote and the deposit, and a few days at the end for you to look at the approval photos and say yes. Add it all up against your own calendar, and give yourself slack rather than booking the minimum. Oil and heavy texture take longer, and pieces 36 by 48 inches and larger sit at the top of their production band, because thick paint has to dry between layers. If the date is too close, we will tell you rather than take the order and disappoint you.

One tip for grandparents. If several households want the same drawing, order them together. Our rate improves at 6 pieces and again at 21, mixed designs count together, and one shipment costs less than three. Rolled canvas in a tube is the cheapest way to ship a group order, especially over about 20 pieces, and a local framer can stretch each one.

Tattoos, lyrics and other personal designs

Your tattoo, painted on canvas. We will paint it if the design is yours. The artist who drew the tattoo usually holds the rights to the design, so we ask for their written permission unless you drew it yourself. Song lyrics belong to the songwriter and the publisher, so we do not paint copyrighted lyrics as text. We can paint the scene the song describes, or your own handwriting of a phrase you wrote.

For a child’s original drawing, tell us which marks are theirs. For published characters, lyrics or illustrations, share the source and permission available so we can discuss an appropriate approach.

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