A flag on the porch comes down on the sixth. A canvas painted in the last week of June stays up through August. That is the whole argument for treating the Fourth as a painting weekend instead of a decorating weekend.
Straight answer on what we stock, because the search results for this topic are full of shops promising things they do not have: there is no flag kit here, no Statue of Liberty, no fireworks over the Capitol. What we have is the country itself. Open American Landscapes and you get the canyons, the lakes and the desert light. Five of them carry the holiday well.
What to paint
- Rocky Mountains Lake Reflection. Pine green against cold blue, with the whole range repeated upside down in the water. The reflection is the difficult half and the reason the finished canvas gets noticed.
- Canyonland Monoliths. Red rock, flat sky, very large shapes. The fastest of the five to finish.
- Sedona Mountains. Same desert palette, but the rock faces are layered, so it rewards the 48 colour version.
- Eagle The Bird. One canvas that reads as the Fourth without a single stripe on it. Feathers are fiddly work, so do not take the 24 colour option for this one.
- Desert Cactus Sunset. Saguaro silhouettes on orange. The one to hand a beginner.
Or paint your own Fourth
The version that beats all five is a photograph you already own. Last year's cookout, the dock at the lake, the kids on the tailgate before the fireworks started. Send it through the custom kit page and we trace it into numbered regions, mix the paints to match the photo, and ship the canvas with brushes. From $19.95 for the 12x12 inch version, $24.95 for the 16x20, which is the size most people actually want on a wall.
Timing, if you are reading this in June
Printing and mixing takes one to three business days. Delivery runs seven to fifteen business days. Shipping is free to the US, Canada, the UK, the EU, Australia and New Zealand with no minimum order. Work backwards from that and the last safe order date is the first week of June. Later than that, buy one of the five above, because those ship from stock.
Painting it with other people
The holiday is the rare occasion where three or four people are in the same room with nothing scheduled. A large canvas splits well: one person takes the sky, another takes the rock, and nobody has to be good at drawing. We wrote out how to divide a canvas without anyone ruining anyone else's section in our guide to painting together.
Every kit ships with the canvas, the numbered acrylics, three brushes and a printed reference. If the finished canvas is not what you hoped for, the thirty day guarantee covers it: we send a prepaid return label and refund the order, original shipping included.
