Where to commission a portrait

Where to commission a portrait?

When you need a photograph changed to art form, you can commission a portrait. Now what do we need for commissioning a portrait? All you need is a photograph even a fuzzy old photograph will do.
The artist tries to make an exact replica of the photograph given. When there are missing elements in the photograph the artist adds those details through active imagination, bringing the image to life.
Portraits can be made of headshot, half-length or full length for the same price. The artist makes various changes and shows the work at various stages through digital image of the portrait being made. The details can be viewed to the last stroke of pain. Once you are happy with the painting, you can purchase by paying the amount through a secure money payment service such as 2checkout.com. This is a SSL (secure socket layer) based service, which means that even the site would not have access to your information.

When you do not like a painting or require refinement this is done very easily. The money is refunded if you surrender the painting within seven days. If you require refinement of the finished painting after delivery, you would have to mail back the portrait purchased so that the necessary changes could be made and returned to you.

Prerequisites for commissioning a portrait:
1. An email of the photograph to be commissioned
2. Written permission of owner of photograph if it doesn’t belong to you
3. One-third the payment made in advance so that the artist has assurances of payment to begin working.
So now that we know what and how to commission a portrait, all we need to know is where to get it…
To get a portrait made is to have the memories from past imprinted on canvas. So we need artists who are efficient in performing what is needed. Once that portrait is made we have to get the work of art safely delivered and framed so that the memories become part of our life forever.
There are a lot of websites that offer portrait services, but there are very few that you could trust to make an exceptional work of art and have it delivered to you safely. Make the payment transaction hassle free and secure.

The following points are to be remembered while making a service request to commission an Oil Painting Portrait:
· Look for sites that have experienced artist
· Site should have exact specifications for requesting a commission of Portrait
· Site should have a clear FAQ about the process involved in making a Portrait
· Look at the samples done before, so that it satisfies your expectations. If not contact the site administrator to have your doubts clarified.
· Verify whether the site uses a secure payment method such as 2checkout or 2CO
· Check if there is refund policy if you have any problems with the delivered art work
· Look through the catalog or gallery to check out the work being done or done before.
That’s it now you are equipped to go and commission a portrait.

How to paint self – Part 1

Painting a Self-Portrait

It is fairly easy to paint a self-portrait. You just sit or stand in front of a mirror with pencil, charcoal, or pastel in hand and begin to draw what you see.

You should first do a rendering in pencil or charcoal to get all the values in place such as shadow and light. It is easier to see shadow and light in black and white than in color and it can give you a map of how to finally paint your painting in oil or acrylic. I like to also think of a well-produced charcoal rendering as a painting.

Before getting started, get all your materials together that you will need for drawing your self-portrait. Once you have drawn it, you can use the drawing as your model to paint in oil or acrylic on canvas. Your final self-portrait can be any size.

You can also do a self-portrait from a photograph, but working from photographs is not as original as working from the object itself and in this case the object is you.

It is important to try to capture the personality and characterization of yourself when doing your self-portrait just as it is important to do this when doing any portrait. In the world of art, this is deemed more important than painting an exact replica. After all the camera can get an exact replica. But a camera will never capture your essence.

The best way to capture essence is to start with the eyes. As that old says goes, “the eyes are windows to the soul.” Once you have the eyes to perfection you have the whole portrait and the rest is just finishing touches.

Now you have done your self-portrait in charcoal or pencil, and you are ready to reproduce this on canvas. You can also render your portrait in pastels and get into the color immediately and this could be your final rendering.

But however there is more to working in pencil and then reproducing it on canvas. Now you will copy your drawing on your canvas in soft pencil. Map out your drawing to scale by eye if possible. If you are not good at this you can make a grid. Just draw block lines or your pencil drawing and then larger block lines on your canvas and fill in.

Make sure to ground your canvas with a coat of gesso, before you begin mapping in the details, unless you are working with an already grounded canvas. You can either stretch your own canvas or purchase canvases that have already been stretched and grounded.

When working in oil you can work almost any way you want to work. Apply your background first and work