Horse Portraits Commission Information
Portrait: 'Murphy' with Small Background.
Size & Medium: 16 x 16 Oils on Gallery Wrap Linen Canvas.
Commissioned from: UK.
This is a portrait painted in July 2011 for a client in the UK. They had two photos of Murphy that they liked however one was behind a gate. This wasn't a problem for Nick, he used both photos and produced this stunning painting and something the family can really treasure for a very long time. The painting is currently at the framers, as soon as I have receive it back i will add photos of the framed painting below. 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 Horse 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 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.
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 and on our main pet portraits website feedback section too.
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oh Wow! I've been checking in and can't believe I've seen Murphy looking back at me - he looks lovely - thank you! Sam :0)
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Hi Melanie & Nick
Just to say that Murphy's portrait arrived safe & sound (wow very impressed with the wrapping - so was our dog who enjoyed the bubblewrap - lol)
This isn't going to be his hanging place, I'm just enjoying looking at it from the sofa at the moment - I feel I'm going to have to re-design the living room now and nag my poor husband about putting the new fireplace in ;0) he will look wonderful just above it.
We all can't get over how lifelike and warm the painting is, and it has this amazing 3D quality you just don't get with a photo (i'm not sure if that best describes it) after missing him so much over the last few months, it's almost as though he's in the room with us. The size is perfect, near enough lifesize - it reminds me of him looking back through the stables. Nick, I think I just haven't seen anyone else capture a 'soul' in a painting like you have done.
I will send through the picture of my mare for the pencil drawing - we've just archived our 5,000 odd iPhoto library - lol - so I need to do some digging...that's the problem with digital photos I think now, we just don't print them off and view them like we all used to?
Once again, thank you so much - I will send pictures once we eventually have it put up properly.
With kind regards
Sam |
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Final Result - The Horse Portrait Framed
We provide our clients with a full bespoke framing service, our local framer Jane can supply frames to suit most home decors and tastes. Clients can alternatively have their portrait framer locally to the - or hang their portrait unframed. You can view larger images of our framed portraits in our framing section and even more on our main pet portraits website.
Final Result - In The Cleints Home
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