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In celebration of the Royal wedding, Nobilified teamed up with "The Living Room", an Australian TV show to let Meaghan know about the Royal tradition of sitting down for a hand painted oil portrait of herself.  Our paintings were declared to be "Hot" instead of "Not". Watch the paintings being unveiled to the hosts here!

The tiniest player in the current feast of royal wedding pageantry is little Louis Arthur Charles, who has been big news since his name was bestowed on him only a few days ago and who is now the subject of multiple viral stories already. (One of the funniest has since the Harry Potter fansite Pottermore lay claim to him as being "named after" a trio of iconic Weasleys from the universe of the Harry Potter novels.) Little Louis is also a timely reminder of a fine tradition of childrens' royal portraiture which is a vital part of the custom painting galleries of Nobilified. Here, we look at a few favourites.

The occasion of a Royal wedding brings to mind a cultural treasure-trove of royal romance tales. It's a topic that brings together power, pageantry and the most intimate kind of human drama all in one package; a subject that forms the core of a thousand fairy tales and not a few real-life dramas, too. In advance of the upcoming royal wedding, we take a tour through some of the best love stories royals have given rise to on screens both big and small. You'll often find these stories' protagonists in our portrait gallery, too, and excellent subjects for our unique custom paintings.

The British royals may be the biggest proof of our ongoing cultural love affair with royalty, but they're far from the only example. Another show is lighting up the Netflix airwaves today – Medici: Masters of Florence – following the fortunes of a great banking family that eventually became a royal family with ducal titles. The first Medici Duke, one of the popular faces in our photo-to-painting portrait gallery, was Alessandro de'Medici.

With graduation season almost upon us, it's a time to contemplate some artwork that brings to mind the philosopher and the scholar in us all. Today we go by way of a famous sculpture by Rodin called the Thinker, and talk about its connection to the unique pictures-to-painting work of Nobilified.

The adage "everything old is new again" has never been truer than in the internet age. It's one of the facts that makes the Nobilified vision possible, but every once in a while we have a fresh reminder of just how true it is, and of just how many forms that truth can take. Today's reminder is a famous French painter whose career spanned the end of the Bourbon monarchy and the rise of the French Revolution long before we were creating oil paintings from photos.

Turning your pictures into paintings, transforming your everday life into the Epic and enabling you to bring it home to hang on your walls as top-notch, fun-loving art: this is was Nobilified is all about. We are, truly, about what is best in life. Let us create your most epic painting from a photograph today, and we're sure you'll agree.

When we think about Nobilified's vision of picture to canvas painting -- to put people in touch with themselves at their most heroic, their most compelling, their most funny and playful and beautiful -- there are certain particular kinds of art that come to mind.

I'd like to share with you an example of what might well qualify as an early precursor of the Nobilified vision. It's a truly great example, still relevant today, of how the art of turning photos into oil paintings can make for a memorable gift. 

Last month, the Google Selfie App, which allows users to find their art doppelganger, took the world by storm, with people around the world matching their faces to paintings; and while some individuals found similar paintings, others were left with mediocre results. For anyone who wants to take their selfie to the next level, Nobilified creates custom oil portraits at an affordable cost.