Online Portrait and Multimedia  Studio Debuts for a Worldwide Audience

www.paintyourlife.com
www.printyourcanvas.com

Los Angeles, CA June 24th, 2009—We would like to introduce you to the most innovative and affordable personal gift around – Paint Your Life! Before photography, portrait painting was a revered tradition.  Royal and aristocratic families painted family members through the generations. Engaged couples sent portraits to one another before their marriage. In the last 100 years, photography took the place of painted portraits.  Now, the Internet uses photography to link artists and the public in a worldwide online portrait and design studio: www.PaintYourLife.com.  The company’s sister operation, the online graphics production studio, is www.PrintYourCanvas.com.  That site creates graphic interpretations on canvas from client photographs in an array of artistic styles.  The prices are affordable – oil portraits on canvas from $99 and charcoal portraits from $69 only!

Imagine any occasion or situation memorialized in oils:  A wedding or anniversary.  A graduation or professional achievement.  A bar mitzvah or first communion.  A loved one or family pet.  A sporting triumph, or a memorial to a fallen warrior.  A cherished possession like a classic car or motorcycle.

Unlike most things in life, the Paint Your Life process is simple: Upload the photographic image of your choice, and their professional artists paint it by hand to client specifications.  Clients pay only a 20% deposit; they pay in full when, after an online review process, they are happy with the work.  The whole process takes a little over a week and the finished pieces are shipped flat or rolled anywhere in the world.

www.PrintYourCanvas.com involves a similarly easy, serene process.  Users upload a photo and professional digital editors manipulate it into one of several recognizable artistic styles, creating a cherished keepsake—and the perfect gift—from an ordinary photograph.  Customers can choose a number of graphic styles that recall and pay homage to the works of Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and the latest art phenomenon, Shepard Fairey, whose works have inspired a movement (and symbolized one!).

These twin enterprises sprang from the minds of Tel Aviv entrepreneurs Assaf Kostiner and Eilon Weissmann.  Kostiner says, “Portraiture is one of the oldest forms of painting, and probably the best admired by its subjects and satisfying to those who commission the works.  PaintYourLife brings this ancient technique into the 21^st Century.  You capture it; our artists will paint it.”