Departuretwelve styles in four rooms
Every line of her, kept.
Your boat, in twelve traditions of marine painting.
- Her lines and colours kept as photographed
- Her name stays as it is on the transom
- An hour to cancel, refunded before it prints
- What you see is what prints
Bring her photograph
One photograph of your boat, the whole hull in frame. The engine keeps her by painting over your own picture of her: the hull, the rig and the colours come from your photograph, and only the water, the sky and the hand of the painting change. Looking is free. You pay when one deserves a wall.
Dutch Calm 1660
Your boat, becalmed on a Dutch roadstead, 1660
Four passes on the house. A pass paints her twice: the upright and the broadside. Your photograph goes to the engine twice, once per shape, and is not kept. Every style comes back twice, the upright and the broadside, and you choose at the till. No warships, no wrecks, no faces: the FAQ says why.
Luminist 1860
The sample sloop, painted by the same engine. Yours replaces her.
One boat, the whole hull in frame. Your own boat, or one you have the right to photograph.
She is kept
Most boat art is a stock yacht on a stock sea, and an owner can tell in a second that it is not theirs: the sheer is wrong, the wheelhouse is a guess, a name nobody gave her is on the transom. Here the rule runs the other way. Hull lines, sheer, freeboard, rig and sail plan, superstructure, colour and waterline are held as photographed. The name on her transom is the only lettering in the picture.
Some renders still miss: a stay drawn in the wrong place, a cleat lost to the paint. That is why looking is free and every render is yours to refuse. We print only the one you chose.
Open water
The twelve styles
Four rooms, walked in order: the painters of the Dutch and English sea, the yacht clubs and their regattas, the drawing office and the chart table, then the harbour wall from Argenteuil to Edo. Two sample boats sit for every style, a sloop and a Downeast lobster boat, so you can watch the style change and the boat stay.
The Marine Room
Oil paint and weather: the Dutch calm, the luminists’ glass water and Turner at full strength.
The Yacht Club
The portrait at speed off Cowes, the regatta lithograph and the flag-locker gouache.
The Chart Table
Her lines in pen and wash, in white on yard blue, and laid across a sea chart.
The Harbour
Watercolour at slack water, the Edo woodblock and the broken colour of Argenteuil.
Broadside on
The upright puts her on a tall sheet. The broadside gives her the width of the water: same boat, same style, side-on, with the weather all around her. Three of the twelve, dealt fresh for every visitor.
Three of eighty-eight. Every style has its still, and the toggle above the picker renders yours.
Photograph in, painting out
- 01One photograph. The whole boat in frame, side-on or on the quarter, in daylight. Phone photos are fine. A marina full of masts is not: one boat gets picked, and it may not be yours.
- 02One style. The same recipe that painted the sample boats on the wall is run on yours. The prompt is built here, not in your browser, so what you get is the style you chose.
- 03About ninety seconds. The upright lands at 1024 × 1536 and the broadside at 1536 × 1024. Keep it as a file, or buy it as a print up to 40 × 60″: what you see on screen is what goes to the printer, rebuilt at print resolution the moment you pay.
- 04Her name and home port, if you want them. The type desk sets them under the painting in the lettering of its period. The engine never letters the picture itself. Skip the desk and the painting prints bare.
Landfall
Hang her large
Enhanced matte, Hahnemühle Photo Rag, or canvas on a deep stretcher bar. We ship to one hundred and twenty-one countries from the nearest print house, at a flat postage by size, set from the printer’s own quotes.
Then she comes home
Paper or canvas, the same render at print resolution, and we print only the one you chose. Every order and every render you kept waits on your own wall here, so ordering her again is a single click: no second upload, no second render.
