Send us a photograph and we turn it into a numbered canvas kit. A childhood house, a dog that is no longer around, a wedding photo, a view from a trip somebody has not stopped talking about.
Ledgebay is a veteran-owned business, and every custom canvas is printed in the United States after you order. It arrives as a complete kit: pre-primed cotton canvas rolled in a tube rather than folded, acrylic paints mixed to match your image and vacuum-sealed so they arrive fresh, brushes in a range of sizes, and a color reference of your own photograph to work from.
Available at 12 x 16, 16 x 20 and 18 x 24, framed or unframed, with the option of one or two spare paint sets at checkout. It will look like a painting of your photograph rather than a copy of it, which is exactly why people frame them.
What to check before ordering a custom kit, from anyone
Almost every listing in this category says the same things: premium canvas, vibrant paints, everything included. None of that distinguishes anything. What actually varies between sellers is a short list of specifics, and most of them are not mentioned in the listing at all.
- How the canvas ships. A canvas folded into an envelope arrives with creases through the picture, and they do not come out. Look for the word rolled, or tube. If the listing does not say, assume folded and ask. Ours ships rolled in a tube, and it is the thing our own reviewers mention most often.
- Whether replacement paint exists. One color always fills the largest area and runs low first. If there is no way to get more of color 12, that empty pot ends the project. You can add one or two full spare sets here at checkout, which costs less than ordering later.
- Whether the paints arrive fresh. Acrylic in a poorly sealed pot dries on the shelf, and a kit that has sat in a warehouse can arrive with half its colors skinned over. Ours are vacuum-sealed.
- The size of the reference print. You will consult it constantly, because your photograph is not a familiar landscape you can guess at. Ours is an 11 x 17 print in the box, not a thumbnail.
- What unframed really means. Unframed canvases are trimmed close to the edge, which suits a mat and a shop-bought frame. If you were planning to stretch it over bars yourself, there is not enough margin at the edge, on ours or on most. Decide at the point of ordering.
- What the reviews actually say. Star ratings are close to useless here, because almost everyone sits between 4.5 and 5. Read the text instead and search it for five words: crease, folded, faint, ran out, dried.
Where we are not the right choice: 18 x 24 is our largest canvas, so if you want something genuinely big for a group photograph, another supplier will serve you better. We also ship within the United States only. We would rather say both of those here than after you have paid.
