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Perceptual Shift
Painting Size: 12 x 12 in (30.48 x 30.48 cm), oil on canvas
Frame: No Frame (Rolled in a Tube)
All framing includes free canvas stretching, mounting & wall hooks. Your framed oil painting will arrive at your door ready to hang on your wall.
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- Hand-painted in real oil on canvas — never a print
- Worldwide shipping, rolled and protected
- Photo of the finished work sent to you before it ships
How you pay: card or PayPal in US dollars, with a proper invoice from Shenzhen Adam Art Co., Ltd. Nothing is charged before you approve the mock-up or the photograph of the finished canvas. Payment is settled in full against one invoice — there is no checkout on this page because every piece is painted to order — the enquiry you send is the order.
Preview it in your room
Choose a room, drag the painting into place, and set your wall width — the canvas is shown at its true size for the dimension you select above.
About Perceptual Shift
At first there is only bedding — great orange and teal folds heaving across the canvas, lit like weather. Then the eye adjusts and a tabby cat resolves in the middle of it: eyes shut, stripes running along one flank, chin tucked, asleep inside the sheets. The delay is the whole point of the title.
The cat is never outlined. Its back is the same cadmium orange as the sheet it lies on, and the folds keep travelling across its body, so only a few signals separate animal from linen: the darker tabby banding along the ribs, a soft shadow under the jaw, one ear lifted against the light, the closed seam of an eye. Step back and the picture is drapery; step in and it is a sleeping cat. Both readings stay available, which is why it keeps holding attention.
The colour does half the work. Orange and teal sit almost opposite each other, so every warm fold has a cold one behind it, and the cream highlights fall where the light would actually land on a real bed at dusk. It stays a warm painting despite all that blue-green — the kind of one-of-a-kind oil painting that makes a plain bedroom wall feel deliberately composed. In a hallway you pass it twice a day and notice the cat on the second look.
Size, wall and framing
Every canvas ships rolled in a rigid tube, gallery-wrapped and ready to hang, or in a floater frame from the swatches above. Change the size here and the room preview above updates to match.
Size and price
Canvas sizes before framing — a floater frame adds about an inch per side. Every size is painted to order at the price shown; there is no quote to wait for.
| Canvas size | Price | Suits a wall of about |
|---|---|---|
| 12 x 12 in (30.48 x 30.48 cm) | $381.65 | 20–25 in |
| 16 x 16 in (40.64 x 40.64 cm) | $529.82 | 25–35 in |
| 20 x 20 in (50.8 x 50.8 cm) | $677.99 | 30–45 in |
| 24 x 24 in (60.96 x 60.96 cm) | $830.65 | 35–55 in |
| 30 x 30 in (76.2 x 76.2 cm) | $1,064.13 | 45–65 in |
| 36 x 36 in (91.44 x 91.44 cm) | $1,306.59 | 55–80 in |
| 40 x 40 in (101.6 x 101.6 cm) | $1,472.72 | 60–90 in |
| 48 x 48 in (121.92 x 121.92 cm) | $1,800.49 | 70–105 in |
What arrives
- The original canvas — one of one, never a print or an edition
- A photo of the finished painting emailed to you before it ships
- Numbered Certificate of Authenticity naming the artist
- Hanging hardware on framed and gallery-wrapped pieces
Listed details: Original oil on canvas · one of one.
Caring for the painting
Dust with a soft dry cloth, following the direction of the brushwork rather than scrubbing across it. Keep it away from direct sun, radiators and steamy rooms; the broad orange passages are stable, but any oil dulls if it lives in steam. No varnish or household cleaner should be applied at home.
Before you order
We reply with a fixed price, a delivery date and an honest opinion — usually within a day. For commissions you approve the composition sketch before painting begins; for originals you receive a photo of the finished canvas before it ships.
Questions? Use the buttons above — the form arrives with this piece's details filled in.
How this reaches your wall
Enquire
Pick a size and frame above, then send the enquiry — you get a fixed price and a delivery date within a day.
Approve
You see a photo of the finished canvas before anything ships, so there are no surprises.
Paint & review
Each piece is painted in real oil on canvas and checked in the studio before packing.
Packed & shipped
Rolled in a rigid insured tube or crated, with the numbered COA and tracking.
More from this collection
Originals by the same artist — each one a one-of-one, never reprinted.
Questions
Questions buyers ask about this piece
Yes. The sizes on this page are the standard ladder, but any proportional size can be made — send the wall dimensions and we will confirm the exact canvas and price the same day. There is no surcharge for a non-standard size, only the normal price step.
By card or PayPal in US dollars, against a proper invoice from Shenzhen Adam Art Co., Ltd. Nothing is charged before you approve the mock-up (for a commission) or the photograph of the finished canvas (for a reproduction). Payment is settled in full against one invoice — there is no checkout button because the painting does not exist yet — your enquiry is the order, and the invoice comes before any payment.
A print reproduces the image; it cannot reproduce the surface. Brush ridges, the slight variation of each stroke and the way oil catches raking light are what make a painting read as a painting across a room — and they are exactly what a flat print loses. Every piece here is painted by hand on canvas, signed, varnished, and shipped with a numbered Certificate of Authenticity.
Yes — that is the point of commissioning rather than ordering stock. You receive two progress photographs while it is being painted, then a photograph of the finished canvas with one free round of adjustments. Nothing is dispatched until you are happy with what you have seen.
Painting takes three to five weeks, then three to five business days in transit, tracked and insured. Rush delivery (three weeks, painting included) is available for $90. The price on this page is $381.65 for the smallest size — larger sizes and extra subjects step up on the published ladder, so there is no quote to wait for.