About

About us

I'm Juan. Color A Dog runs out of NYC. Not because the world needed another print shop — because my kids kept sending me pictures of three dogs they consider mine, and I kept wanting to put them on the wall.

The kits started as a one-off. Brownie's portrait at Christmas. Then Moose for a birthday. Then Stella, because Stella was not having any of it. Once it was three, friends started asking. Then strangers. Now it's this.

Here's the thing: I'm not the artist. I just print the grids and pack the boxes. The dog ends up on the wall because you spent a Saturday placing dots, one at a time. That's the whole product. You can hand a kit to a kid, a partner, or a grieving friend, and they'll do the rest. Nothing breaks. Every dot has one right answer.

Meet the grand-dogs

Brownie, a small tan yorkie, rendered as a finished Color A Dog kit.

Brownie

Yorkie. Ten pounds of opinion. Refuses every photo until food appears. The portrait shoot took an hour and a piece of cheese.

Moose, rendered as a finished Color A Dog kit and photographed from above.

Moose

Sleeps through everything — thunder, doorbells, the photo shoot. The kit was easy to print because Moose hadn't moved in three hours.

Stella, a German Shepherd in a teal bandana, rendered as a finished Color A Dog kit.

Stella

German Shepherd. Thinks she's in charge. She probably is. The bandana was her idea.

Send me your dog.

If you have a dog you'd like to put on a wall, pick a kit and send a photo. I read every email. I print every kit. I pack every box.

Order a kit

— Juan