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Free Art Tools: Size, Wall Preview, Style, Color and Perspective
Five tools we built and kept free. None of them asks you to sign up or leave an email, and every one of them ends on real paintings we hand paint, not a stock mockup.
- What size painting fits this wall? Wall Art Size Calculator Three sizes we actually paint, the height to hang them at, and a scale drawing of the wall.
- What will it look like above my sofa? Wall Art Visualizer Any painting in the catalogue, dropped into a room at the right scale, or onto a photo of your own wall.
- Which art style is actually mine? Art Style Quiz Two minutes of questions, one of twelve archetypes, and twelve paintings that match it and your room.
- What colors are in this painting? Painting Color Palette Hex codes pulled from the painting itself, ready to copy, download or match against a room.
- How do I draw this in correct perspective? Perspective Grid Generator One, two or three point grids you set up in the browser and print or trace at the size you need.
Start with size when the wall is still empty
Nearly every regret we hear starts the same way: the painting is beautiful and it is too small. The wall art size calculator takes the width of whatever sits below the wall, a sofa, a bed, a mantel or a console, and turns it into three sizes we actually paint: subtle, balanced and statement. It also gives you the hanging centre, the hook height and a scale drawing with the furniture in it, so you can see the gap before you commit to it. Do this first. Everything after it is easier once you know you are shopping for a 48 by 36, not for "something big".
Use the wall visualizer once you are down to two
Choosing between two paintings on a white product page is a coin toss. The wall art visualizer puts either one into a room at the right scale, and it will take a photo of your own wall if you would rather see the real light and the real furniture. What it is good at is the thing a catalogue photo hides: how much darker a painting reads on a warm wall, and how quickly a canvas stops holding a room when it is a size too small. Use it as a tiebreaker, not as a search tool.
Take the quiz when nothing feels like yours
Some people arrive knowing they want Monet. Most do not. The art style quiz asks about rooms and colors rather than art history, then places you in one of twelve archetypes and shows twelve paintings that fit both the archetype and the room you said you were decorating. It is the fastest way out of a 35,000 painting catalogue when you have no idea what to type into the search box.
Pull a palette when the room decides the painting
If the sofa, the rug and the cabinets are already there, the painting has to answer to them. The painting color palette tool reads the colors out of any famous painting we hold and hands you the hex codes, a downloadable swatch file and the paintings in our catalogue that share the same palette. Designers use it the other direction too: start from a paint chip or a fabric, and find the masterpiece that already lives in those colors.
Reach for the perspective grid when you are the one painting
The other four tools are for buying. This one is for making. The perspective grid generator builds one, two or three point grids in the browser, at the size and density you set, ready to print or trace. It is the tool our own studio reaches for when a commission involves architecture, and it is free for the same reason the rest are: it costs us nothing to leave it running, and painters remember where they found it.