Pet Portraits Commission Information
Portrait: 'Hattie' with Plain Background.
Size & Medium: 16 x 12 Oils on Gallery Wrap Linen Canvas.
Commissioned from: UK.
This portrait was painted for Charlie to give as a surprise gift to her partner for his birthday in March 2011. Hattie is a Hungarian Vizsla and takes the perfect photo, so Nick had plenty of lovely reference photos to work from for this portrait. I have added a few of the stages of the portrait along with Nick's hand working on the painting, the final scan and detail and the reference photos Charlie emailed. 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,
Oh I absolutely love it!! I can't tell you how pleased I am... Nick really has captured her so well. I can't wait to see the real thing and give it to Simon he's going to be over the moon :) can't believe i have to wait until the end of March!!
I've had a look at the blog which is brilliant it, i'm just so excited!!
Thanks so much, I'm so pleased I asked you to paint it :)
Charlie X
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Hi Melanie,
He is so pleased with it, absolutely thrilled :) In fact, the best birthday present ever!
As soon as my exams are finished, we will get some photos sent over to you, sorry not to have done it any sooner!
Hope all is well,
Charlie x |
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