Portrait Painting Blog

Here’s another example of our team working magic.

We received the two images below from a customer.  Here was the customers exact request.

I have a request to combine two pictures into one portrait. The primary picture is of my two friends sitting in a military sidecar unit. The second picture is of their daughter who was not even born at the time the original picture was taken. Since my friends are sitting on the motorcycle seat, as if they were driving it, I think they would enjoy it if I incorporated their daughter into the portrait as if she were their passenger.

To facilitate requests like this, we have a photoshop person on staff to create mock-ups.  The mock-up below was created and approved by the customer.  Unfortunately, the photo of the girl wasn’t the highest quality, but our team was able to work with it.

The mock-up was presented to our artist, and our artist produced the beautiful 30″ x 36″ oil painting below.

Christmas is only 64 days away.  It may sound like a long time, but it’s not if you want a custom portrait painting delivered by Christmas.

From start to finish, a custom oil painting normally takes 30 days to complete.  During the holiday season, we prefer to receive orders at least 45 days in advance.  If we receive your order on or before the week of November 9th, we can guarantee you’ll receive your painting before Christmas.  Almost all orders received on the week of November 15th will be received on time, but we can’t offer a 100% guarantee.

If you order your painting between November 22nd and November 30th, it’s still possible to have it delivered by Christmas. It is only possible if you do not want the painting stretched.

We receive some very kind words from a customer we did a portrait for recently.  We posted a picture of the painting on the blog and the customer posted the following comment…

This painting has turned out so much better than we could have imagined. After searching warehouses of paintings for something different, we thought… “Why can’t we find one painting that has a special meaning to us?” We were so tired of finding paintings of cafes, flowers, oceans and cats dressed like people… none of which had OUR story attached. This story… our 3 year old grandson Gabe searching for birds inside a knot hole in the side of an old barn.

We were worried about spending money for a painting, but Portrait Painting is very professional and delivers ON TIME. Thanks for helping us to make this memory a bit more permanent and easier to share.

This comment was posted by Judy – the grandmother of the boy in the picture.

I’m a big fan of Chuck – an NBC drama.  I’m not going to bore you with the premise of the show.

While watching the show on Monday, I spotted a framed portrait on the wall that looks like a portrait painting.  I’ve posted an image of the framed portrait below.  You be the judge.

Andrew Wyeth, one of the most famous living American artists, died today at the age of 91.

Christina’s World, below, is one of his most famous paintings.  He will be missed in the art world.

An interesting paragraph from his obituary in the Washington Post is below.

In the 1980s, Mr. Wyeth was the subject of an intense media spotlight for his “Helga” series of 45 paintings and 200 sketches. These pictures, many of them nudes, were the product of hundreds of modeling sessions with a Chadds Ford neighbor, Helga Testorf, over a 15-year period. No one else, not even Mr. Wyeth’s wife, had previously known about them, and their disclosure to the public was arguably the art event of the decade.

Barack Obama’s official portrait was released yesterday.  The photo was taken by the new official White House photographer Peter Souza, and this was the first presidential portrait taken on a digital camera.

This portrait will be soon be displayed in thousands of federal offices, hundreds of embassies, and military installations around the world.

Since we are Portrait Painting, we can turn Barack Obama’s official portrait into a painting.  One of our artists has alread started turning the photo into a painting so we should have an example in the next week or two.

UPDATE: We have just launched a website dedicated to our Barack Obama Oil Painting service.

Pricing:
A 16″ x 20″ Barack Obama oil painting will start at $179.  You can view pricing on our website.  The Obama painting qualifies as 1 Figure.

Ordering:
Visit our order page.  To order the Obama painting, select the size you want, framing, and select 1 figure.  At the bottom of the ordering page, it will ask you “How would you prefer to send your photo?”  Select “Send by Email”.  On the next screen in the comment section, just mention “Obama painting”.  After that, just complete the order by entering in your payment and address information.

Delivery:
Please allow 3-4 weeks for delivery.

Questions:
If you have any questions, comments, special request, or if you would like to order several painting, please contact us.

Although cute, elephants should not be used if you want your painting to look like the photo you’ve taken. This elephant is absolutely amazing, but we think our artist are just slightly better.

Here is what it looks like when our artist is painting…

Artist Turning a Photo into a Painting from portrait-painting on Vimeo.

In two weeks, the United States will choose a new president.  A new administration means new cabinet members and new political appointees.  Many outgoing members of the current administration want an official portrait painted – it’s a tradition that dates back to the beginning of our country.

Unfortunately, a painted portrait can cost upwards of $50,000 – a cost that taxpayers have to pick up.  The Washington Post wrote an article about this practice.

Some artists doing these portraits still demand sittings that can total 30 hours.

Our portrait artists can paint a beautiful portrait from just one photo.  You don’t need to spend $50k to be immortalized in a portrait painting.

Many people have a tough time visualizing the size of a painting until it is in there possession.  We’ve created a helpful resource assist our customers in choosing the correct size of a portrait.

Our online resource will assist you with the following sizes…

16″ x 20″

20″ x 24″

20″ x 30″

24″ x 36″

30″ x 36″

30″ x 40″

36″ x 48″

Currently, we only feature oil paintings on our website.  But, we actually can do portraits in a variety of mediums.  In the next few weeks we will be adding more mediums to our website.  Below, is a list of the mediums that will be added soon.

Charcoal
Watercolor
Pencil
Acrylic
Pastel

If you’re interested in having a portrait painted in a medium other than oil, just contact us. We can give you a custom quote for one of the mediums above.