Portrait Painting Blog

In my last post, I showed you a painting I thought turned out better than the original photo it was based on.  Well, this is an even more dramatic example of how we can sometimes work magic and produce a painting that looks much better than the original photo.

In this case, the original photo was extremely dark.  Our artists did have difficulty with the hair because those details are impossible to see in the original photo.  We worked closely with this woman’s husband (it was a surprise gift) to get the details exactly right.

If you are thinking about turning a poor photo into a painting, please be advised that these aren’t normal results.  In many cases, we are not able to work with poor, blurry photos because our artist needs to see as much detail as possible to produce a great painting.  If you have a blurry photo and you want to know if we can work with it, just email the photo to us and we’ll give you a free consultation.