Family Portraits Commission Information
This is a wonderful painting Nick completed in October 2011 for a 40th birthday surprise which was an oil on linen 18 x 14. Catherine (UK) commissioned us to paint her favourite photo of her husband with their dog Purdy and asked for us to add the caption 'Only Fools and Dogs'. Nick painted this at the bottom of the canvas. I have added the stages of the portrait, the final scan, the photos Nick used when painting below for you to view. I have also added photos of the portrait when we had it framed. I hope you enjoy this page of information and if you would like to commission us to paint your pet don't hesitate to email us at any time.
The Family Portrait in Progress
We try to make sure we take a number of photos of the portrait during the day and display them on our portraits in progress blog for our clients to see. We have daylight easel lamps which allow us to see the painting in pure natural light, and sometimes this lighting effect the photos that we take. This can account for colour differences between each stage and the final scan below.
The Oil Painting with Detail
We scan the majority of our artwork here in the studio, we have an epson scanner, or for the very large paintings we take photographs of the artwork using a Sony DSLR camera, a tripod and two diffused photography lights. Our scans and photographs are always perfect quality if clients require giclee prints of their hand painted portrait for friends or family.
Client Family Portraits Reference Photos
Our clients email a range of photographs for us to work with, we use one for the main pose of the portrait and others for detail, backgrounds etc The photographs depicted below may vary in colour to the finished painting above. This can be due to the scanned oil painting being slightly different to the original or often clients give us more than one photo to work from i.e. one for the pose and another for colouring.
Client Comments and Feedback
We are always thrilled to read our clients emails, we are in touch with clients via email and sometimes via telephone, skype and texts throughout the entire process. Clients also leave us messages on our portraits in progress blog when they are watching their portrait in progress and also comment on our facebook page too. We try to add snippets of their emails here for you to read, plus you can see more photos of happy clients with the portraits in our client feedback section too.
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Hi Melanie and Nick,
I love it think it's fab! Perfect :-)
I will go with what you say regarding frame. As I am sure you will know what works best.
Regards,
Catherine. |
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Final Result - The Family Portrait Framed
We provide our clients with a full bespoke framing service, our local framer Jane can supply frames to suit most home decors and tastes. Clients can alternatively have their portrait framer locally to the - or hang their portrait unframed. You can view larger images of our framed portraits in our framing section.
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