Pet Portraits Commission Information
Portrait: 'Pippa and Cracker' with Mottled Background.
Size & Medium: 18 x 14 Oils on Gallery Wrap Linen Canvas.
Commissioned from: UK.
Sarah Brown contacted me in 2010 to paint her two dogs Cracker and Pippa. Sarah had already commissioned me in 2009 to paint her mums dog for a birthday gift and once Sarah saw the portrait we did for her mum she wanted one of her own dogs. Cracker and Pippa were a joy to paint and you can see the stages of the portrait, a final scan and detail along with the reference photos I used. Sarah's email is also below when she received the portrait along with the framed portrait. 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 Pet 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 Pet 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
Wow, wow, wow!!!! Thanks soooo much, we have received the portrait and it looks brilliant. We can't thank you enough for what you have done - it is absolutely perfect in every way and captures their personalities in every detail.
We are planning on getting a frame from the same place we got mum's and if it is with the same timescale, it should be done within the next couple of months. As soon as it is done and up in our living room, we will take some photos and send them on to you.
Thanks again for all you have done and hope to speak to you again soon.
Hope you are all well.
Love S x |
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Final Result - The Pet 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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