Commission a Portrait - by Melanie & Nicholas

Portrait: 'Ebony' with Small Background.
Size & Medium: 18 x 14 Oils on Gallery Wrap Linen Canvas.
Commissioned from: UK.

This is a recent horse painting Nick has completed in February 2011 of a stunning horse called ebony for a client in the UK. It was painted on Linen canvas to the size of 18 x 14 inches. I have added a few of the stages Nick took when painting the portrait, one of him painting at the start of the process where you can just see his hand on the canvas, some final scans and close up details and the reference photo Nick used. 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.

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.

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 Horse 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.