Pet Portraits Commission Information
Portrait: 'Sally and Peobe' with Full Background.
Size & Medium: 24 x 18 Oils on Gallery Wrap Cotton Canvas.
Commissioned from: UK.
This portrait was commissioned by family in the UK who wanted a lovely reminder of their dog Sally along with their daughters dog Phoebe. They requested Sally to be portrayed slightly younger so I have added two photos of Sally in the reference photos below with her at various stages in her life. The clients also requested Sally and Phoebe to be portrayed on the headlands in the Gower in Wales along with gorse bushes and the sea behind. Nick has painted the landscape beautifully and it is really a wonderful backdrop to the dogs. Mike and Margaret, our clients, visited the studio to collect the portrait and I have added a photo of them when they were here in the studio and also an email thanking us for the day. 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 and Nick,
Thank you for an enjoyable morning with the lovely the tea and cake. We enjoyed meeting you both in your lovely cottage and admire your efforts in restoring the original features. I have told Kate about your dedicated work with Tom and the behaviourist from Exeter.
At the moment, Sally and Phoebe are sitting proudly next to Venus and Diana. Of course, we will send you a photo when the work is framed and hung. I have forwarded the photo of us on your sofa to Kate and Luke and await their comments.
We will keep in touch and keep an eye on your blog. All the very best and thank you for everything,
Mike and Margaret |
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Happy Clients with Nick
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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