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Canvas prints for the kitchen and living room

Our prints are brilliant for any home because they really fill a space with a dramatic burst of colour. It is quite difficult to envisage the effect of stunning canvas prints when they are displayed on the walls of a room, but if you use your most precious photos then you will definitely create something truly spectacular. Professional Photos on canvas combine a highly artistic flair with emotion and feeling for a dramatic result.

Brilliant home decoration ideas

One of the major benefits of canvas prints is their versatility: they can be placed in almost any colour scheme any work gorgeously in almost any space. With so many different options available, photo prints come in all shapes and sizes to match any tone. If there is a blank space on the kitchen wall, or a bland atmosphere in the bedroom, why not spice it up a little with a fabulous print to immortalise your favourite photos? When considering home interior and decoration, many people might pass over the great advantages of canvas prints in favour of more traditional methods of décor. However, the plus of canvas prints is their emotional creativity, allowing you to customise your final picture in any way that suits you.

Creative and personalised prints

If you have some funny photos with you and your children at a family gathering such as a wedding or birthday, why not capture its great visual impact by transforming it into a breathtaking set of canvas prints? Display them proudly in the kitchen or dining room to create a light and upbeat mood that will enhance all mealtimes. Alternatively, if you have a great holiday photo from your favourite place in the world, why not convert its beauty into an inspirational canvas to go on the walls of your bedroom or living room? It may not be the most obvious home decoration idea, but it is certainly effective, and really has the ability to change the feel of a space.

With a rise of photography websites such as Flikr and Instagram, average people have embraced art photography without needing the training of a professional. Amateur art photographers can be assured though that their beautiful digital pictures can be turned into modern photo canvases, much like the more traditional family and holiday photos. Everything about digital photo printing with Photo-Canvas.com is modern, so make art photography canvas prints with your photos online. All you have to do is upload your photo to our website, and wait for your print to arrive in 1-2 days; the greater the resolution of the photo, the better modern canvas print it will make. With your art photographs, you can create great contemporary art for your wall, which you have taken yourself and are not from the high street. With our high-quality printing and our building techniques your art photo canvas will last a lifetime, which means that your beautiful and stylish art photography will be a fixture in the room for as long as you want it to be.

Photo Canvas sells many different types of canvas prints with many pop art treatments that you apply to your photo, but one of the canvas print styles that is so simple and classic is theBlack and White Canvas Print. Turn your photo of choice into a striking and smart Black and White Canvas Print, even if they may have started off in colour. We will convert colour photos into black and white canvas art for you, and you have the chance to preview your work before you purchase it. These canvases make for a very classic look, and it is the easiest choice because it will work in your home, no matter the colour of the walls. We can have your Black and White Canvas Print sent to you in 1 day (addresses on the British mainland), so you will be able to have your hands on your canvas very quickly. Black and White photos always have a unique feel to them and stand the test of time due to their sense of nostalgia.

Have you ever seen canvases of old comic book strips in a museum and thought, ‘Oh that’s cool, I have to have that?’ Now you can have your very own photo turned into a photo canvas done in the Roy Lichtenstein style. He was famous for his comic book style art in patterns of oversized dots and a limited colour palette, and we can recreate your personal photo in this style on canvas. If you have a specific colour choice planned for your Lichtenstein pop art canvas print, you have the opportunity to tell the artist before the work is created.

The Lichtenstein style pop art canvas print is not created through a Photoshop filter, but is hand-drawn by a graphic designer onsite. Each canvas print is made individually to your specifications. You can even add a speech bubble to your work of art for that extra pop art feel. The Lichtenstein pop art canvas print is subject to your approval, and a proof will be sent to you before it is created on canvas. Since this is painstaking to create, it will take a few extra days, but we will have it sent to you within a week. The Lichtenstein style pop art canvas print is a great way to show off one of your favourite pictures in a creative and fun manner.

Now with the help of Photo Canvas, you can have your very own recreation of your chosen photo in the famous revolutionary style of Che Guevara. Create a canvas print in the Che Pop Art style, similar to the design of the famous T-shirt that has been gracing generations of youth around the world. Your version does not have to be in red either, like the original, but it could be in any colour that you feel will fit the colour scheme of your room. Choose any photo that you think will look good in the Che Pop Art style, from a picture of your pet to one of you and your friends.  Each Che Pop Art photo canvas will be hand-drawn on the computer by one of our in-house graphic designer as well; it’s not just a filter on Photoshop that will make your photo look this way. You will receive a proof after the artist is finished, so that you will get to see the final product before it is transferred to the canvas. The Che Pop Art photo canvas can be sent to you within 2-3 days, so you will have your special recreation in a short amount of time.  Viva la Revolucion with Che Pop Art photo canvases!

One of the hidden gems on the photo-canvas website is the relatively large library of images of old London.  These images can be turned into Vintage London Prints on canvas. To go along with the sense of nostalgia in all of us, these canvas prints have historical value and show off how the city was over a century ago. It is a great purchase for anyone who is interested in London life or has lived in London for a long period of time. Maybe your parents have lived in Kilburn all of their lives…a perfect gift would be a canvas print of Grange Park from the Great War. Maybe some of the prints will bring back memories of your childhood or show a contrast to the place you live in now. We have Vintage London Prints of famous landmarks of the city, some of which as they looked over a century ago, such as The British Museum in Bloomsbury, Buckingham Palace in Green Park, Berkeley Square in Mayfair and even Wembley Stadium before the World Cup win in 1966. You can get a Vintage London Print from many of the districts around London to suit anyone’s taste, from Hampstead to Primrose Hill.  Vintage London Prints are a great addition to your wall as a decorative piece and will bring out a sense of nostalgia in you every time you look at it.

Do you want something different to hang on your wall, but something with a personal touch still? Our option for Custom Portrait canvas prints isn’t just a boring portrait of yourself, your children, or your dog, or a simple creation of the submitted picture. It’s a modern blend of artistic portraiture and pop art that will pop on your walls and add a dimension of creativity. These Custom Portraits canvas prints are advanced vector drawings that are hand-drawn on a graphics tablet, creating a piece of art with a graphic novel feel to it. Submit a photo that is limited to the head and shoulders of one person (more can be done for an extra fee), and let the artist on our site do the creative work. After you submit the picture, you will be able to speak with the artist to go over parts of the composition plan with you, such as the specific design style and prominent colours of your Custom Portrait canvas print. With the Custom Portrait canvas prints you don’t have to deal with any outside third party middle man, so the process is faster. It will take 6-10 days, and in between you will receive an email proof from us so you can preview your Custom Portrait canvas print. Throughout the process, you are active in the creative process in order to achieve the Custom Portrait canvas print that you desire.

Photo Canvases

When people think about canvas as a display media they normally think about famous works of art; those works that hang in places like the Louvre and in the Tate.  Although canvas printing has been around for awhile, it is now gaining popularity and has been become more accessible to the mainstream consumer than it used to be. With this relatively new medium to take advantage of, don’t relegate your favourite pictures to photo albums or a box in the back of your wardrobe. Turn your photos into works of art with photo-canvas.com!

Quality and Efficiency

For our canvas prints, we print on real fresh woven canvas and hand-stretch the custom work over a strong anti-warping wooden frame, which are some methods of our competitors do not use. With our award-winning build quality, we have a lifetime guarantee on all of our canvas prints made in-house in our London location. If ordered before 2pm Monday-Friday, we can also guarantee a next day delivery so you have your personalised photo canvas print in your hands straight away. Don’t worry about blemishes or red-eye in your photos; we can remove that for you too. With our canvas prints, quality is ensured and with photo-canvas.com, your photo can be magically turned into a piece of art made with the same quality as those in the famous museums.

Mother’s Day is this weekend, and I’m sure you’ve gotten her a present already, right? Now, Dad gets his turn to get all of the attention. Well, even though Father’s Day is still months away, it is worth looking at our selection of canvas prints and thinking about what you think he would like. With photo-canvas.com, we can turn any of your photos into a great photo canvas print, a perfect item for me. You can send in your pictures electronically, or for a small few, you can send in the hard copy and we will scan them for you.

Gifts for Men

Maybe it is a Photo Collage of the kids to hang on the wall in his office at work that he would like for Father’s Day? If your Dad is into contemporary art, how about a Banksy Style Canvas Print from one of his favourite wedding photos? Maybe your Dad would like a Black & White Canvas Print of him and his mates from university for Father’s Day? Even if you can’t think of the exact thing that your Dad will like, there is always a Photo Canvas Gift Voucher as a Father’s Day gift that he can redeem himself, and it lets him choose exactly what he wants. With all sorts of treatments and designs, we are sure that you will find the perfect gift for Father’s Day for your Dad. Don’t forget, if it is the canvas print is ordered before 3pm, we can have it sent out on the same day too!

Unique Prints on Canvas

Put a bit of the Hollywood magic onto your wall with the Filmstrip Montage Canvas Print. With this style of canvas print, classic vintage has a modern twist and it is a perfect way of showing off your photos without having to put them in photo frames.  Printed on high-quality canvas and materials, your beautiful images will stay crisp and will not scratch. You have the ability to choose between 2 to 7 photos to include on the filmstrip, for this distinctly unique canvas print. Landscape photos look the best in this montage, especially if they are in the 4:3 aspect ratio, but we will let you know if your photos are fit satisfactorily. Choose a montage of nature images, or of your child, or even of the best photos from your holiday travels; whichever photos you are proud of and want to display for all to see. You can even put your photos in a specific order so that you are ordering exactly what you have pictured in your mind for your Filmstrip Montage Canvas Print.  You will be emailed a proof so you get the final verdict before we construct your Filmstrip Montage Canvas Print, in order to ensure your full happiness with it. The Filmstrip Montage Canvas Print will be a classic and timeless addition to your wall wherever you decide to place it.