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Narrowboat portrait from your photo, in a painted style.

For anyone with a photo of the boat who would like it as a painting. From £14.99.

£19.99A4 · Poster

Sample image: a traditional narrowboat moored on a quiet stretch of canal in morning lightSample image
The same sample image as a soft watercolour illustrationAs a watercolour
Example. Yours is made from your photo.

Step 1: Choose a style

Style

Examples of each style.

Step 2: Choose the size

Format
Size

Step 3: Upload the boat photo

Your photo: JPEG, PNG or WebP, up to 10 MB, at least 800 px on the shortest side. Every size is checked against its resolution.

Step 4: Get your free previews

The style is made by AI from your own photo. You see a free watermarked preview first, and nothing prints until you approve it. We email you a six-digit code to open your previews: it keeps the free previews for real buyers and lets you reopen them on any device for 30 days. Three a day, each watermarked. No password and no marketing. Upload your photo first and this step opens.

  • Made for you, so it can't be returned for a change of mind: please check the spelling or preview. Delivery and returns

  • Free UK delivery, tracked. 4 to 9 working days.

    Priority delivery £4.99, chosen at checkout: 3 to 6 working days.

  • If it arrives damaged or with a print fault, we reprint it or refund you, at our cost.
  • Sending it as a gift? Tick "This is a gift" in your basket. The parcel carries no prices.
  • Pay by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay, securely through Stripe
How the previews work

Upload her photo, verify your email with the code we send, and generate a watermarked preview in the style you picked. You get three free previews a day. The picture you approve is the one printed: it is kept as the print master, without its watermark, and never generated a second time.

Delivery and returns

Made to order. Free UK delivery, tracked. Priority delivery £4.99 at checkout, 3 to 6 working days. Because it is made to your wording or photo, it can't be returned for a change of mind. If it arrives damaged or with a print fault, we reprint it or refund you, at our cost.Delivery and returns

Same picture, other ways

An easel on the towpath holding an unfinished painting of the canal, a paint box at its feet and a green narrowboat moored alongside
A painter works from what is in front of the easel. Your portrait works from your photograph.

Sizes and prices

Every price includes free UK delivery.
SizeBoat portrait
Poster · A4£19.99
Poster · A3£34.99
Poster · A2£39.99
Poster · 50x70 cm£44.99
Poster · 70x100 cm£54.99
Canvas · 30x40 cm£85.00
Canvas · 40x50 cm£89.99
Canvas · 50x70 cm£109.99
Canvas · 60x80 cm£119.99
Metal print · 30x40 cm£119.99
Metal print · 40x50 cm£149.99
Metal print · 50x70 cm£179.99
Wood print · 30x40 cm£99.99
Wood print · 40x50 cm£129.99
Mug · 11oz£19.99
Water bottle · 500ml£39.99
Digital download · Digital download£14.99

Made by AI from your photo. You see a free watermarked preview before you pay, and nothing prints until you approve it.

A green narrowboat under way along a straight rural canal, seen from a bridge, a church tower across the fields
Out on the cut, seen from a bridge: one kind of shot a portrait can start from.
  • Start from a photo. Upload one clear shot of her (bow-on at the mooring, mid-lock, or out on the cut) and the portrait is made from that. No photo of the boat? The name print needs only her name.
  • Five styles. Watercolour, ink line, oil, vintage poster or painterly. Try each on your own photo before you commit to one.
  • One of one. The portrait is made for your order from your photograph, and it is never reused for anyone else. It is also made once: the file you approve is the file that prints.
  • Your approved artwork. The locked artwork is used exactly as selected, without its watermark, at an eligible print size.
  • UK delivery, 4 to 9 working days. Made-to-order, shipped tracked. Free UK delivery.
A green narrowboat moored bow-on in a row of boats along the towpath, flowerpots and bicycles on the roofs
Bow-on in a line of moored boats, taken in flat daylight.

Which photograph to send

The portrait can only work with what the photograph gives it. A boat shot bow-on at the mooring, alongside the towpath, or mid-lock all work; a photograph taken into the sun, or from so far off that the boat is a stripe of colour, does not. The name on the bow will appear as the photograph shows it, so if you want it legible in the finished piece, send a frame where it is legible now.

Five styles are offered, and they are not interchangeable. Watercolour and painterly soften edges, which flatters a busy towpath background. Ink line keeps the boat's proportions and drops most of the colour. Oil holds detail in the paintwork. Vintage poster reduces the whole scene to flat shapes, which suits a boat with a strong livery and loses fine lettering. Try each on your own photograph before choosing: previews are free.

Formats

The portrait is the same whichever way you print it. Prices are per format, and every size we sell is listed on one page.

  • Paper, unframed · A4 up to 70×100cm, all on 250gsm uncoated off-white archival stock.
  • Framed poster, solid wood, black or natural
  • Canvas · framed canvas
  • Wood, printed straight onto 10mm lined plywood
  • Metal, printed straight onto 3mm metal
  • Mug · water bottle
  • Digital file only

Questions before you go

Do I need a photo?

Yes: the portrait is made from a photograph you upload, so you need one clear picture of the boat. If you haven't got one, the narrowboat name print is set from her name, canal and year instead, and needs no photo at all.

How closely will it match the photo?

Closely, but it's an interpretation, not a technical rendering: the hull colour, livery and setting in your photo read clearly, though exact proportions aren't guaranteed. Restyle up to three times a day before you lock it in.

Is the preview the final quality?

The on-screen preview is watermarked and lower-resolution. When you order, we use the clean master of the exact artwork you selected. Only sizes that meet our print-quality threshold are offered.

What makes a good photo to send?

One clear, reasonably sharp shot of the whole boat in daylight. Bow-on at the mooring, mid-lock, or out on the cut all work well. Avoid heavy shadow, a very distant shot, or a picture with the boat mostly hidden behind trees or other craft.

Returns?

Made-to-order and one of one, so no change-of-mind returns. Arrives damaged? We'll replace it: see our returns page.

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