A child's bedroom with an oil portrait above the bed: a girl painted as an astronaut on the moon

When I grow up

The year they knew what they wanted to be.

Their answer changes every birthday. Keep this year's in oil, painted from a photo of them as they are now. Free to see first.

Paint their wish

An example in Their wish. Yours is painted from your own photo.

Free to see first. Their pet can come too

Their wish. Painted as what they want to be.

Upload a photo to begin One clear photo of the child, alone or with their pet. Faces easy to see.Upload only photos you have permission to use.The sharper the photo, the better the painting. Use the original from your camera roll, not a screenshot.

Best results: faces looking at the camera.

No account, no card, nothing charged to see it finished.

Early Black Friday: canvas portraits up to 65% off, until December 1.

Two people from two photos?

Send one clear photo of each. They are painted together, side by side, in the style you chose.

First person Second person

A girl painted as an airline pilot in the cockpit above the clouds

Their face. Their dream.

Painted from your photo, not a template: the gap in the smile, the freckles, the way they stand. Only the clothes and the world around them change, to the one they told you about.

A stretched canvas of a boy painted as a race car driver, the painting carried round its edge

What actually arrives.

Your piece is made in a specialist print workshop that has been making custom pieces since 2020, about 10,000 a year.

Printed on woven canvas and stretched over a solid pine frame, with the painting carried round the sides. The hanger is already on the back: one nail, and it is up.

Four canvas sizes, framed or with painted edges, hung upright or wide to suit the photo; or a hanging scroll or a tin sign. You choose which after you have seen the painting.

Every size and material, in detail

See it finished before you pay a cent.

Type any dream and see it painted from your own photo, free. Change the dream and try again. Nothing is printed until you say so.

Kept, and replaceable.

Every painting is covered for life. If it fades or is damaged, we reprint it from the archive. Upload only photos you have permission to use; everyone in it is painted, and the file stays with your order.

Saved and shared copies of this preview carry our watermark. Your piece and your digital file arrive without it.

Their wish

Choose your piece

Size

Frame

Digital file included. Free shipping.

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Arrives damaged or not as previewed? A free reprint or a full refund.
Free tracked shipping. Lost in the post? We send another.
Made by a specialist print workshop: about 10,000 custom pieces a year since 2020.
Covered for life: if it ever fades, we reprint it for a flat fee.

Another style

Tap a style to paint the same photo again. Each repaint uses one free preview.

A time capsule

Ask again next year and the answer will be different.

Children change their answer every birthday. This painting keeps the one they gave this year, at the age they gave it, in oil that will outlast the dream itself. Hang it now. Show them when they are grown. Whatever they become, you will have the day they wished it.

In their own words

Type what they say they want to be, exactly as they say it, or tap one to start. We paint them in the real working clothes of that dream, in the place they would do it, with their own face from your photo.

Their best friend comes too

If the dog or cat is in the photo, they are in the painting, dressed to match. Every dream needs a partner.

Now and someday

Hang the wish beside the child they are today: the same photo painted as it is. Two paintings, one wall, the before and the dream: order them together and both are 15% off.

Paint their wish

How it is made.

Printed on woven canvas, stretched by hand over a pine frame, the painting carried round the sides so it needs no frame to look finished. It arrives with the hanger already on the back.

A child's painted portrait seen close, the brushwork in the face and the diving helmet — Woven canvas Not paper and not a smooth board. The weave shows through the paint, the way it does on a painted canvas.

A stretched canvas of a boy painted as an astronaut, the painting carried round its edge — Painted round the edge About two centimetres deep, and the picture carries on round the sides. Hung without a frame, it still looks finished.

The back of a stretched canvas: pine bars, stapled canvas and a small metal hanger at the top — Pine, staples, one hanger Stretched over a solid pine frame and fixed at the back. The hanger is already on: one nail in the wall is all it needs.

What we stand behind

See it first

Nothing is made until you have seen it and said yes. Nothing is charged until you order.

Free shipping

Tracked to your door in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

Reprint or refund

Damaged, or not what you approved: tell us within 14 days.

Kept for life

Your picture stays in our archive, ready to make again.