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Mon 31 Aug 2009
Posted by Melanie Phillips under Dog Portraits
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As you can see I have done some more work on the Labrador portrait. I have concentrated on the background and grass today. Next I will move on to the dog, once she is complete I will return to the background to finish it off.
Sun 30 Aug 2009
Posted by Melanie Phillips under Dog Portraits
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This is the first stage of a 18 x 14 pastel painting. At this stage I have covered the paper and set the the general colour scheme. Of course she looks like she is floating at the moment but a ground shadow will be added a a later stage.
Thu 27 Aug 2009
Posted by Melanie Phillips under People & Pets Portraits
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This is my latest people portrait, the size is 16 x 12 which is my most common size for a double head study. This portrait was commisioned by the client as a gift and the scan below has been given the “all clear” with no revisions needed.
Wed 26 Aug 2009
Posted by Melanie Phillips under Painting Creations
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Here are the final stages and the close ups of Tigs Pet Portrait. I am now going to take the next couple of days to get everything organised in the studio with our new commissions. Nick has already been sorting the new commissions, he has cut out all of the hardboard for the packaging so we are getting organised.
We also have a Bank Holiday Weekend here in the UK this weekend, its the famous August Bank holiday where the roads are highly busy as everyone travels tot he coast for some sunshine. We aren’t planning to go anywhere, however we may well take a couple of days off depening on how much sunshine we get in Wales! We possibly have family visiting my parents too so that will be nice. Ill blog as soon as my next portrait is on my easel, it will more than likely be the pencil of Barney as Im waiting on a delivery of canvases before I can start my next oil. Enjoy your weekend!
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Tue 25 Aug 2009
Posted by Melanie Phillips under Portrait Painting Videos
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I haven’t made a video for ages as I have been a little busy for ‘extras’, so here is one of me signing the portrait, painting the edges and an overall view of the painting. Hope you like it!
Mon 24 Aug 2009
Posted by Melanie Phillips under All Work in Progress
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It feels as though I haven’t blogged for a while, we had a weeks holiday, we visited my niece and nephew in Cornwall which was great, and upon our return I have been working away in the studio busily even though I haven’t blogged any artwork! We have been getting all of the commissions organised, it takes quite a bit of arranging, chatting to clients and I have been making sure I have all the photos, paper and canvas to get back starting on my next batch of commissions. We have been testing out some new canvases and I have found a great place to source them from and I have also been helping Melanie work on the website to update and overhaul the galleries.
We use to do the main overhaul at Christmas time, we would complete all of the Christmas deadline commissions around the 22nd of December and then spend the time between then and the New Year to take a look at the site and change, amend and update it. We have had a lot of feedback from our main site over the past few months and so we have been trying to take this into consideration when updating.
The galleries are now mostly organised, every image was replaced with our new logo and design and considering we have 5 galleries all with multiple pages with thumbnails and larger images this took us quite a while. We want to give our sites and overall unified design and so it all needs to match. We then added close up details along with the photos we worked from and in some cases added photos that clients have sent us with the portraits framed.
Its slowly coming together now and our biggest change is the interactive zoom gallery. I found a site where you are able to purchase flash templates and this one seemed perfect for our needs. I am hoping that clients will be able to view our artwork really close up so that they can see the quality, but the great thing about this is, that the larger images cant easily be stolen as they are all within the flash template. All of our images are now watermarked with a copyright notice so clients can feel safe in the knowledge that their unique one of a kind painting or drawing can’t be easily reproduced.
My next portrait is a black Labrador and following that is a lovely little dog called Holly, plus I have quite a few new pencil portraits too so I will be adding the stages of my next commissions in the next few days.
Mon 24 Aug 2009
Posted by Melanie Phillips under Painting Creations
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Hi All!
Here are the final photos of Bella the Beagle, plus all of the previous stages gathered together as a compilation so you can see how the painting progressed – the paintings creation so to speak!
In the summer months..or shall I say this time of the year on days that are sunny outside, I take the opportunity to take photos fo the artwork in the natural daylight outside. I took a range of the painting in the patio area and along came our cat Amram and sat in front of the painting while I was photographing it. We loved it so much we thought it had to go in the set of photos, we think that he is critiquing the painting! I’m not sure what he thinks of it though…what do you think??!
I have also created a You Tube Video which I will post asap!
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Fri 21 Aug 2009
Posted by Melanie Phillips under All Work in Progress
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This is the latest stage of Tig, we are having a day off tomorrow as its supposed to be sunny in wales we need to mow the lawn, strim and cut the hedge in the garden so its tidy for the winter. Hope to get back to either Tig or Bella on Sunday as they are both in nearing completion stages and I will post them asap!
Thu 20 Aug 2009
Posted by Melanie Phillips under All Work in Progress
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Hers the next stage of Tigs pet portrait! The portrait is coming along well and I will be adding more stages tomorrow.
Tue 18 Aug 2009
Posted by Melanie Phillips under All Work in Progress
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Here’s the next stage to the Beagle, Bellas Pet Portrait. I hope to be completed by the end of the week. I have also been working away in the last couple of evenings on the portrait gallery on the website and have now added the text and testimonials to the pencil gallery. I have a few ref photos missing but some of the older portraits without the reference photos will be replaced by newer ones in this coming month, some of my old favourites in there date back to 2003 / 4! Thats around the time I really started taking photos of my work digitally and having everything online rather than snail mail and an slr camera. It doesn’t seem that long ago, but technology wise, i guess things have come on so far in the last few years. Its laughable to think when we started we even took our portraits to a photographer to get a copy of them, or sent them off to the client without taking a copy! Unthinkable these days!
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