Posts Tagged ‘portrait painting’

Painting a Portrait from Snapshot Photos

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

The following is an example of our recent work where we took some snapshot photos and used them as references to create a formal portrait painting.

Remembering a Great Smile - Portrait Painting

Remembering a Great Smile - Portrait Painting

We painted this portrait only based on a snapshot photo:

Snapshot photo used as refererence for the painting

Snapshot photo used as refererence for the painting

The customer also provided another image with more details for the ear-rings and explained details about the eye and hair colors that were not clear enough in the photo. Jack from our team of portrait artists then started first with a pencil drawing to let the customer approve the posture and overall composition, then moved on to painting with oil on canvas. We then shipped the final painting completely framed and ready to hang. The customer`s response:

“The portrait arrived this morning. I absolutely love it! Thank you so much.”

This is just an example of how we can paint portraits quite different from the actual photos.  Just give us enough photos to use as references, and we will be able to create exactly the scene you have imagined. If you are interested in having us paint for you, please contact us and we will give you a free consultation. We look forward to hearing from you!

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Our new Portrait Artist Blog

Saturday, April 25th, 2009

Here’s our first post on the brand-new Linden Alley blog. We setup this space to be able to communicate more with our customers, and share stories about Linden Alley and what it’s like being a portrait artist here. Click on one of the ’subscribe’ links on the right to follow our blog and be notified of new posts.

To start our blog post series, here’s an image of one of our most recent portrait paintings:

 

portrait painting

portrait painting

Like most of our paintings, we did this based on a photograph sent in by the customer. Here it is:

 

original image

original image

This project was fairly straight-forward for us. We painted the same posture as in the photograph, and of course removed the shoulder of the other person from the photo. 

Do you know anyone who’d be interested in having a portrait commissioned like this as well? Send them a link to our website, or use our “remind me to get this as a gift” feature to set a date where we should get in touch with you to discuss your project. Thanks for your support, we look forward to painting for you!

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