craft

The details that turn a portrait into a piece.

Heavyweight paper, 12-color printing, solid oak frames, and a human designer who signs off before press. The kind of finish you keep for years, not a thing you scroll past.

the paper

Heavyweight, uncoated, hand-feel matte.

Most online portraits are printed on coated 170gsm photo paper. It looks fine in a photograph and feels thin in your hand. We use 200gsm fine-art paper with an uncoated matte surface. Heavier, softer, and closer to what a gallery would frame.

The matte finish kills glare from any angle, so the piece reads clean under a window or a lamp. The uncoated stock ages the way printed art is supposed to age: by holding its color, not by yellowing.

the print

Archival inks, made to last.

Archival is a technical word that means a print holds its color for decades, even in indirect daylight. We use the same pigment-based inks museums use for limited editions. Deeper blacks, truer skin tones, no shift to magenta over time.

The same inks go into every portrait we frame. A piece you buy this year still reads the same way in ten.

the review

Your order gets its own designer.

Every order pauses at our studio and a designer is assigned to it personally. They correct the color, perfect the alignment and the crop, and look hard at the way your pet's face came out. Anything you want changed, they change.

Then it comes back to you. Nothing goes to press until you have approved it, there is no limit on the changes you can ask for and no clock on them, and we keep improving it until you are completely happy. Not "if something looks off" — until you say it is right.

It's the step every print-on-demand shop skips. It's the reason ours hang straight.

Yours, Theo.

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