Pet Portraits Commission Information
Portrait: 'Tig' with Mottled Background.
Size & Medium: 16 x 12 Oils on Cotton Canvas.
Commissioned from: UK.
Laura commissioned a portrait of her dearly loved Tig who sadly passed away in early 2010. Although Laura lives on the Isle of Wight, a small island off of the coast of the UK, her family live quite close to us here, which was a fluke as Laura didn't really know where we were when she found our website. Laura visited us at the studio to bring her photos so that we could chat about what she wanted for her painting. She also came to collect the painting when it was complete and was delighted. I have added a few stages of the portrait, the final scan, a few of the reference photos I had to work with and finally a few photos of Laura with the portrait when she visited. 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 Mel,
You have definitely captured his eyes which I knew you would. When I showed it to Kevin's brother yesterday he couldn't believe it was an oil. He was very impressed, as am I. You have confirmed that you were the right person to capture his spirit.
I will be over the last week in October, so I will give you a ring to arrange a suitable time to visit if that's ok. I'm looking forward to seeing the lovely Amram again and obviously can't wait to see my boy's portrait in the flesh. Expect some tears though.
Best Wishes
Laura |
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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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