Pet Portraits Commission Information
Portrait: 'Missy Rose' with Plain Background.
Size & Medium: 12 x 12 Oils on Cotton Canvas.
Commissioned from: USA.
Gary, USA, commissioned me to paint their dearly departed and very much loved dog Missy Rose, a lab mix in 2008. It was going to be a 20 x 16 portrait painted on cotton canvas. I have added some photos of the portrait in the early stages, a final scan and detail, the reference photo Gary sent me and a lovely email when Gary and his wife received the 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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Melanie,
We received Missy Rose this afternoon about 4:00 PM our time. We are so pleased to see her smiling face again, and so beautifully done. We've been reviewing the places on our walls where she should most appropriately hang. I think after framing, she will be on the wall outside my office/library door so every time I enter and leave she will smile at me.
Melanie, we will certainly provide pictures of our framing job once complete. It may be 2 or 3 weeks before that job is accomplished.
Thank you again, young lady, you've made us happy and you've done justice to our dear Missy Rose.
Best wishes always, Gary and Barbara |
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