Horses · Ponies
Custom Ponies Portraits, Hand-Painted From Your Photo
We paint Ponies portraits by hand from your photo. Trade pricing applies from one piece, and you approve a digital proof before anything ships.
- Coat
- Dense, often thick winter coat; long manes and forelocks
- Common colours
- any — bay, chestnut, grey, black, dun, palomino, piebald, skewbald and roan
- Build
- Small and sturdy, with a short head, small ears and a thick neck
- Canvas orientation
- Portrait or square for the face and forelock; landscape for a full body or a child's pony
- Detail levels
- Painterly · Refined · Hyperreal
- Minimum order
- 1 piece — retail or trade
On the canvas
Painting a Ponies: what we pay attention to
Ponies are painted with the same seriousness as horses and a little more affection. The short, broad head, the small ears, the thick neck and the forelock falling over the eyes are drawn from a photo taken at the pony’s own eye level — from above, a pony is all mane — and the expression, which ranges from wise to wicked, is kept exactly as the photo has it.
A winter coat is painted as a dense, soft mass with the longer hairs shown at the edge and the mane and forelock in long strokes over it; a summer coat as sheen over the form, like a horse. Colour runs across the whole equine range — duns with their dorsal stripes, piebalds and skewbalds with their patches drawn at the sketch stage, greys as soft dapples, palominos warm gold — and is matched from a daylight photo.
A child’s first pony is one of the commissions we do most often for this page — as a memorial, or as a gift when the pony is outgrown — and the child can be painted with the pony from a separate photo, combined at a consistent scale with the layout confirmed as a sketch. Shetlands, Welsh, Connemaras, New Forests, Highlands, Fells, Dales and miniature horses are all painted from the pony in front of us.
For the trade
Selling Ponies portraits?
Breed-specific portraits are a strong seller for Etsy shops, breed clubs, groomers and gift retailers. Order one at trade pricing, or a set for a shop or a single interior, shipped to you or your customer. The same policies apply to every trade account.
See the trade program| Policy | What we offer |
|---|---|
| Minimum order | 1 piece |
| Trade pricing | Applies from the first piece |
| Capacity | 50+ painters in the studio; volume orders in the thousands, not the dozens |
| Largest single piece | Up to 5 m on the longest side — freight is checked before we quote |
| Ship direct to your customer | Yes, worldwide |
| Branding on the parcel | Yours, ours or none — you tell us |
| Sample policy | Discounted first sample |
| Digital proof | Sent for approval before every shipment |
| Payment | Deposit + balance after proof approval |
| Price list | On request |
Recent work
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Ponies portrait FAQ
Can you paint a child's first pony?
Yes — it is one of the most common commissions we get for ponies, often as a memorial or a gift when the pony is outgrown. We can paint the pony alone, or with the child from a separate photo, combined at a consistent scale.
How do you paint a thick winter coat?
As a dense, soft mass with the longer hairs shown at the edge, and the mane and forelock in long strokes over it. A summer-coat pony is painted with sheen over the form, like a horse.
Which pony breeds do you paint?
All of them — Shetland, Welsh, Connemara, New Forest, Dartmoor, Exmoor, Highland, Fell, Dales, and miniature horses — because we paint the pony in the photo. Tell us the breed and we make sure the head and the outline are right for it.
Do you paint from a phone photo?
Yes, as long as it is the original file rather than a screenshot or a photo of a photo. Sharp eyes and even light matter more than the camera. Send it and we will confirm whether it will work.
Can I order a single piece at trade pricing for a client?
Yes. Trade pricing starts from a single piece, and a project — a series for one interior, or a standing monthly order — is quoted the same way. Request the trade price list from the trade page.
Other horses we paint
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Send a photo of your Ponies and tell us the size you have in mind. We reply with a quote and tell you honestly whether the photo will work.
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