Instapainting

Instapainting is a custom art service founded in 2010 and based in San Francisco, CA, connecting customers with an open collective of independent artists worldwide who create hand-painted portraits, pet paintings, and custom artwork from photos. Rather than housing artists in one location, the company built a platform where artists globally can sign up and bid on painting requests, assembling what it calls the largest open artist collective in the world. Instapainting also provides online collaboration tools so customers can review, markup, and request revisions directly with the artist throughout the process.