The greats who built your world, present at your proudest moment.
Your graduate, in cap and gown, congratulated in person by one of history’s great minds – Monet in his garden at Giverny, Newton in his orchard, Shakespeare on the stage of the Globe.
Your graduate worked for this. So did you.
This is one complete portrait, made from a photo of your graduate, in which a great artist, scientist, or thinker steps out of history to shake their hand. It is not a face pasted onto a painting or a cut-out dropped onto a background. The Master stands in their own world – Monet’s water garden, Newton’s orchard, the Globe Theatre – and your graduate stands right there with them, unmistakably themselves.
Match the Master to what your graduate loves, or to what comes next for them.
Currently available Masters are highlighted below. The rest are coming soon.
- The thinkers: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius, Confucius
- The writers: William Shakespeare, Alexandre Dumas, Jane Austen, Phillis Wheatley, Mark Twain, Emily Dickinson, Frederick Douglass
- The scientists: Ernest Everett Just, Isaac Newton, Galileo, George Washington Carver, Charles Darwin, Michael Faraday
- Math and engineering: Benjamin Banneker, Euclid, Archimedes, Ada Lovelace
- Medicine and nursing: Mary Eliza Mahoney, Hippocrates, Florence Nightingale, Mary Seacole, Clara Barton, Daniel Hale Williams
- Leaders: Abraham Lincoln, Joseph Rainey, Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, Robert Smalls, Benjamin Franklin, Harriet Tubman
- The educators: Mary McLeod Bethune, Booker T. Washington, Susie King Taylor
- Business: Madam C. J. Walker
- The artists: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet
- The composers: Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Bologne (Chevalier de Saint-Georges), Ludwig van Beethoven, Scott Joplin
Graduation Cards
Announcements and thank-you notes your family will actually keep.
Canvas for the wall
The same portrait, printed on canvas and framed, ready to hang.
I’m Neal Helman, publishing as L. M. Hawkes. I designed every one of these scenes. You see your graduate’s finished portrait before anything is printed, and nothing prints until you approve it. If it isn’t unmistakably your graduate, try again.
- Choose your Master and order.
- Upload a photo of your graduate. A head-to-toe, forward-facing snapshot works best; a headshot can work too.
- Create the portrait with our tool and approve it. If it isn’t right, you can try again before anything is printed.
- Your cards or canvas are printed and shipped to you.
A clear, evenly lit photo gives the best result.
Your graduate’s portrait is private until you decide otherwise. From your own gallery page you choose, for each portrait, who can see it: only you, anyone you send a link to, or everyone. The photos you upload are never shown unless you allow it, and they are never used in our advertising unless you allow it.
We keep no rights to your portrait.