Turn a photo of your comical kids into a photo to canvas portrait in the comic book fashion of Roy Lichtenstein

I walked into a friend’s house recently and noticed a huge oil painting of his kids on canvas. I was awe struck. I thought to myself, “How did he get his kids to stay still for this painting?” It looked quite authentic. Things that are too good to be true usually are. The answer of course was they used the artist technique of producing a hand painted portrait from a digital photo. There are several studios that will do this service. A few examples I found online include: Canvas Press, Canvass on Demand, and Photo Crazed.

Today, I’m reviewing one of my favorite sites called Paint Your Life. I liked Paint Your Life because they offer the Roy Lichtenstein style. Lichtenstein is famous for his comic book fashion pop art. For those of you who might not know, Litchenstein popularized the word Whaam! in American comic book culture.

Original Image

Original Image

According to the Paint Your Life website, “the best-known works of Roy Lichtenstein are close copies of comic book panels, complete with speech balloons and captions. He picked up sophisticated themes of stereotypes and popular icons of modern life and their exaggerated influence on society. He later created ironic parodies of painting styles such as Pointillism, Cubism, and Surrealism. His work features the thick outlines and bold colors typically like an illustrated comic book.”

Paint your life combines the two processes of digital photography and Lichtenstein’s distinctive technique to take a simple digital photograph and transform it into a “Lichtenstein style” digital image which can then be enlarged as a photo to canvas print. So, if you want to give a nice and thoughtful gift to someone you love, just upload a photograph on the website gallery and order a photo to canvas print that transforms your adorable kids to a vintage comic book character.

Lichtenstein Style

Lichtenstein Style

It might look difficult to convert a digital photo into a comic book style portrait looks but here are the easy steps to your master canvas:

  1. Upload your photo and choose the size, style, framing pattern and the comic character in which you want your loved ones to be depicted.
  2. Next the editors at Paint Your Life will analyze your photo and optimize colors, brightness and contrast as per the requirement.
  3. An editor would work for several hours to customize your photo as per your desired comic character and email the edited photo for your approval
  4. Paint your life will print your desired photograph on cotton canvas using a high quality EPSON 9880C printer with original K3 ink for best results.
  5. Finally, Your canvas is rolled (or stretched and framed if you prefer) and carefully packed for shipping.

A Lichtenstein photo portrait makes a humorous and pleasing gift for all age groups alike. Infact they have changed the way people decorate their homes in present times. For more information, you can visit the gallery at Lichtenstein Portriats.

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