Shipped framed-ready on tracked An Post, arrives in about 3 to 6 days Six fine-art styles, considered From €69
Olea&Hound
Storybook Illustration · Literary, not cartoon

The pet who belongs
inside the story.

In the register of Beatrix Potter and Quentin Blake. Painterly washes of gouache and ink, considered linework around the eyes, a warmth that reads as nostalgia rather than novelty. From €69 framed-ready, or €29 digital.

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A casual phone photo of a cat
The photograph
The same cat, illustrated in the storybook register
Storybook Illustration
Your pet's name, here A Storybook Illustration · No. 042
  • Any phone photo works
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  • Engineered for likeness, not novelty
Why a Storybook

Between formal
and cartoon.

A storybook illustration of a pet

The Storybook is the style we built to fill the gap between the formal Oil Painting and a flat cartoon. It draws from the English illustration tradition - Beatrix Potter, E.H. Shepard, Quentin Blake - rather than from feature-film animation. The brushwork is loose, the linework around the eyes and the muzzle is considered, and the colour palette stays on the warm, faded side of the wheel.

It belongs in family rooms, nurseries, reading corners, bookshelves with old hardbacks. Owners send it as a gift to new parents nearly as often as for their own homes. It hangs as a print for the same reason a children's book cover holds a shelf - the composition is generous and the colours sit calmly on a wall. The included digital file makes a quiet phone wallpaper too.

Storybook flatters pets with strong personalities and faces with a lot of character - tortoiseshells, French bulldogs, shaggy terriers, mixed-breed rescues. The illustration register has room to play up the quirk in a face that a more formal painting would have to suppress.

About the Storybook

What people
actually ask.

Is this like Beatrix Potter?+

It's in the same register - English illustration tradition, gouache and ink, warm muted palette - but it isn't trying to imitate her specifically. Think Beatrix Potter, E.H. Shepard, Quentin Blake as a family of reference rather than any single artist. The goal is something that could open a children's book without you knowing which one.

Will it look like Pixar?+

No. Pixar-style 3D animation is what we explicitly built away from. The Storybook is two-dimensional painted illustration, with brush texture and ink linework. Eyes aren't enlarged, expressions aren't exaggerated. If you want the Pixar register, this isn't the style for you - the other five wouldn't be either, in fairness.

Is this safe for adult walls, or does it read as a kids' room piece?+

It reads as a literary illustration, not as a children's-room piece. The same instinct that puts vintage illustrated hardbacks in adult living rooms applies here. That said, it does work beautifully in nurseries, family rooms and reading corners - it just isn't limited to them.

Will my pet's actual markings come through?+

Yes. The illustration is painted over a faithful portrait, not instead of one. A tortoiseshell stays a tortoiseshell, a tricolour beagle stays a tricolour beagle, the white patch on the chest stays where it is. Where the style allows itself liberties is in the looseness of the brushwork and the gentle warmth of the palette - never in the pet's identity.

Does it work as a gift for a new baby?+

Yes - this is one of the two most-gifted styles we offer (the other is the Royal). The family pet rendered in a Storybook illustration sits naturally above a cot or on a nursery shelf, and it ages with the child rather than out of the room. Add a gift message at checkout; the framed-ready print ships on tracked An Post and a private gallery link with the digital file is sent separately.

How does it print?+

The file is 4,096×4,096 pixels - print-ready at A2 and beyond, at any local print shop. Matte or uncoated paper works best and keeps the gouache-and-ink character of the illustration. Glossy finishes make it read like a photograph. A3 in a thin wooden frame, or unframed and propped on a shelf, both work well for this style.

From Storybook owners

What owners
actually say.

★★★★★

"Got it for my nephew's birthday - his cat Figaro in Storybook. He asked if it came from an actual book. Best compliment possible."

Rachel M.
Rachel M. ✓ Verified Edinburgh · Storybook · Cat
★★★★★

"My Bran is a Patterdale-collie cross with one ear that won't stand up. The Storybook one got the ear right. That's the test."

Nia Williams
Nia Williams ✓ Verified Cardiff, Wales · Storybook · Dog
★★★★★

"Three friends in three weeks asked where the print on my wall was from. I refuse to call it an AI portrait, it's a painting now."

Karmena Spiteri
Karmena Spiteri ✓ Verified Valletta · Storybook · Cat
A small comparison

What you actually get,
versus the alternatives.

  Olea & Hound · Storybook Typical alternative
Register Literary illustration, not animation Generic Pixar-warm 3D cartoon
Delivery Shipped framed-ready, about 3 to 6 days on tracked An Post 3–6 weeks from a warehouse in Asia
Honest about AI Yes - in plain English "Hand-painted by artists" (it isn’t)
From €69 · framed-ready print (29 digital) $49–$99 framed
One photo · Thirty seconds · Storybook

The pet who deserves
a page of their own.

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