Dog Portraits Commission Information
Portrait: 'Roxie' with Plain Background.
Size & Medium: 24 x 18 Oils on Gallery Wrap Cotton Canvas.
Commissioned from: USA.
This is a wonderful portrait painted by Nick in oils on linen canvas. Steve commissioned a painting of their dearly departed spaniel in december 2010 and nick painted Amy for them in early 2011. The painting was a 16 x 12 oil on linen canvas using Steve's reference photos of Amy, a few of which can be seen below. Steve wrote a wonderful testimonial which I have added at the bottom of the page and I have also added a photo of the portrait framed. 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 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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Hi Melanie,
Thank you soo much we are delighted (even though we have a house full of tears today!) with the portrait.
We are all in awe of Nick fine rendition of Amy and so pleased that he has magically managed to captured that very elusive quality "character" which was so much part of Amy`s personality and was such a constant delight whilst she shared her time with us.
I hope you can bear with me for a few days we just want to absorb the image and give some serious thought to the framing before making a final desicion as to what we are going to do.
Regards and thanks,
Steve Davis |
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Final Result - The Dog 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.
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