Paint Your Pet from a Photo in Sofia, Manastirski Livadi

Turn a favourite photograph of your pet into a painting you create yourself. This paint-your-pet experience in Sofia’s Manastirski Livadi neighbourhood gives you three hours to bring a treasured memory, a familiar personality and the feeling behind a photograph to life on canvas. With guidance from a professional artist, you make a personal portrait with its own artistic character, ready to take home.

Capture the personality behind the likeness

The painting is about more than what your pet looks like. It focuses on everything that makes them unmistakably themselves: their expression, their posture and that particular look that makes you smile every day. Working from a photograph you provide allows attention to be given to the texture of their coat, the subtleties of the light and the atmosphere captured in the image.

The result is more than a picture of an animal. It tells a story about your bond and preserves something of your pet’s presence through colour, line and a personal approach. The aim is a finished portrait that connects with you emotionally as well as visually.

Build your painting with a professional artist

The process begins with a close look at the photograph and the choice of a suitable composition. With the artist’s help, you develop an approach that brings out your pet’s individuality and draws the important details into a coherent image. Traditional techniques meet a contemporary artistic perspective, giving the painting both depth and a fresh feel.

The artist demonstrates each stage and paints alongside the participants, offering advice as you work. You gradually develop the shapes, lines and individual brushstrokes so that every element contributes to the composition and the finished portrait feels complete and full of character.

A portrait with your choice of colour and style

As part of the artistic concept, you have the opportunity to choose the portrait’s format, size and colour direction. This lets you consider how the painting will sit in your own space, whether that is a pared-back minimalist interior, a cosy corner at home or a more expressive, artistic setting.

The approach balances close attention to detail with a harmonious, stylish overall image. Individual guidance and professional support are intended to help you create a distinctive original work, with a focus on quality execution and lasting value.

What the experience includes

• A pet-painting session using a photograph supplied in advance.
• All the materials you need: paints, brushes, an easel, a canvas and an apron.
• Advice and demonstrations from a professional artist, who paints each stage alongside the participants.
• A glass of boutique Bulgarian wine, with a choice of white, red or rosé, and a small bottle of mineral water.
• Juice and water for a child.
• Your finished painting to take home.

Location, duration and participants

The session takes place in Manastirski Livadi, Sofia, and lasts 3 hours. It is a group experience shared with other participants you may not have met before.

Children can take part from the age of 7. Children aged 7–14 may participate only with an accompanying person.

Preparation, published schedule and cancellation

Send your pet’s photograph to the organiser before the session so it can be used for the portrait. On the day, arrive 5–10 minutes before the start.

The published 2026 schedule lists a session on 30 September at 18:45. This is the specific date shown in that schedule, not confirmation of a future voucher booking.

The organiser’s stated cancellation policy allows free cancellation up to 48 hours before the booked session.

A personal keepsake or a gift with a story

This experience offers a way to preserve a special moment or give something different to someone whose pet is part of the family. The painting you create brings together art, personal history and care for the details: a visual expression of your bond, made with sensitivity and affection.

Choose an Adventico voucher for yourself or someone close to you. The voucher is a gift of the creative experience, rather than an immediately confirmed booking for a particular session.