What People Want When They Search for a Hand Painted Pet Portrait
When someone searches for a hand painted pet portrait, they are usually looking for one of two things.
The first is a commission: an actual human artist who will paint their pet by hand, in oils or watercolour or another traditional medium, and deliver a genuinely handmade piece. That process takes weeks and costs hundreds of pounds. For the right occasion, it is worth it.
The second is the aesthetic of a hand painted portrait without the constraints of the commission process. The look of visible brushwork. The warmth of a painting rather than a photograph. The sense that the image has been made rather than captured. That is achievable immediately, from a single photo, at a fraction of the cost.
Furcasso is built for the second need.
Styles That Produce a Hand Painted Look
Furcasso offers multiple styles that replicate specific hand painting traditions.
Oil Painting: the most immediately recognisable hand painted aesthetic. Visible brushwork, rich colour saturation, the characteristic handling of light and shadow that defines traditional portraiture. Produces results that are difficult to distinguish from a genuine oil painting at display size.
Watercolour: soft washes, blended edges, the texture of pigment on paper. The most delicate of the painterly styles, and one of the most popular for pet portraits.
Baroque: dramatic, high-contrast, with the visual weight of seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish painting. Particularly effective for dogs with strong features and coats with visual complexity.
Dutch Master: a quieter version of the Baroque aesthetic, warmer in palette and lighter in tone.
Renaissance Noble: a portrait style drawn from fifteenth and sixteenth-century European portraiture. Formal, dignified, and highly distinctive. See the dedicated Renaissance Noble pet portrait page for more.
Old Masters: a broader category drawing on the full tradition of pre-modern European painting.
Each of these produces a result that carries the essential visual qualities of hand painted work: made texture, deliberate colour handling, and the presence that a flat photograph cannot replicate.
Hand Painted Portraits as Gifts
The appeal of a hand painted pet portrait as a gift lies in what it communicates: that someone thought carefully enough about the recipient to commission a portrait of their pet, and that they have taste.
Furcasso makes that gift available to everyone, not just those with the time to find an artist and wait for a commission. The result, in a painterly style, carries all the same visual weight as a genuine commission, at a price and turnaround that makes it viable for any occasion.
How It Works
Step 1: Upload a photo of your pet. Step 2: Choose one of Furcasso's hand painted styles. Step 3: Preview in approximately 90 seconds. Download or order a print with free worldwide shipping.
Pricing
| Format | Price |
|---|---|
| Digital download | From $13 $10 |
| Unframed print (A5) | $24 $19 |
| Unframed print (A4) | $30 $24 |
| Unframed print (A3) | $37 $29 |
| Unframed print (A2) | $50 $40 |
| Unframed print (A1) | $75 $60 |
| Framed print | From $63 $51 |
All print orders include a free HD digital copy and free worldwide shipping. First-time customers get 20% off with code FIRST20, applied automatically at checkout.