Dog Portraits Commission Information
Portrait: 'Diva' with Plain Background.
Size & Medium: 12 x 12 Oils on Gallery Wrap Linen Canvas.
Commissioned from: Germany.
Diva was commissioned by Brendon (Germany) who commissioned us to paint Diva as a gift for his trainer. Brendon emailed us some lovely photos of Diva and we knew right from the start this was going to be a wonderful painting. Brendon requested some kind of sky, grass and fields scene with a hint of flowers and grass behind and Nick has added this in to compliment Diva which works really well. You can see the steps by steps of the painting process below, along with the final scan and detail and the reference photos Nick used during the process. We have also added in two of the lovely emails Brendon sent during the process and when he saw the final scan. I hope you enjoy this page of information and if you would like to commission us to paint your dog don't hesitate to email us at any time.
The Dog 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 Dog 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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Thank you so much for sending me the final scan! Wow, I am speechless, there are no words to describe such beauty! I am so happy about the picture!!! And I bet my dog trainer will be too! I know she will be. It's truly a masterpiece. Diva looks so vivid and real like she's going to jump out of the picture. And as I have told you before, I especially like how you two paint the eyes. I think they look wonderful, so full of life! I love the picture so much! And the background turned out fantastic as well with the field and the flowers and the beautiful sky, everything is just so perfect! The picture is so incredibly beautiful and I can't thank you both enough for it. I am so more than happy with it. I can't wait to give the picture to my trainer, she will be so thrilled as well. Thank you, thank you, thank you!Have a wonderful weekend, both of you, and good luck with everything!
Best wishes
Brendon
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Hi Melanie,
Thanks so much for posting the stages of the Diva picture on your website. It looks absolutely amazing!!! And so much better even than the photo! I love how detailed you can see the facial features which in the photo you can't, and the eyes have that special glow like all of your pictures that I like so much. I am looking forward to seeing the final scan. Thank you so much for your update and many greetings and thanks to Nick too for his great work!
Best wishes
Brendon
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Dear Melanie and Nick,
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And now I want to thank you for the beautiful, beautiful picture of Diva! It arrived on Thursday and it looked even better than it already did on the pictures you've sent me! It was packed with so much love and care and thank you also for the nice letter! I looove the picture! I've never seen anything this beautiful before (except all your other pictures on your website) and I'm loooking forward to having both of my own dogs painted by you in the future. When my trainer has gotten the picture I will ask her for a photo of Diva and the picture so that you can post it on your website. Thank you so much for painting this wonderful perfect picture of Diva for my trainer and me, I was so happy when it arrived, and thank you also for the lovely contact and updates and all the effort you put into keeping your clients up to date. I appreciate it very much!
Have a great weekend and greetings to Tom!
All the best
Brendon
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