You do not need to get glass to frame the oil painting, however glass framing will keep it dust free, especially if unvarnished! Please remember that a final varnish, though not mandatory, can be applied only 6 months after the oil painting to allow time for the oils to dryвЂ™. If you prefer to have a preliminary varnish of the oil painting, you would need to let me know. In the latter, a simple background or similar tones or hues that will complement the portrait subject will be used. You could opt for the one in the photograph or a вЂStudio BackgroundвЂ™. You would need to specify the background for the portrait. From the point of time your commission is accepted to your receiving the finished portrait can take from 6-8 weeks. Oils are a time honoured medium and remain as permanent testaments but take notoriously long to achieve to perfection and to dry. You will need to allow up to an extra 10cm (or 4вЂќ) all around for proper framing.

Please remember this is the size of the actual canvas I work on. I usually work with canvas sizes ranging from 305mm x 406 mm approximately (12вЂќ X 16вЂќ), 406mm x 508mm approx. I paint with oils on stretched canvas selecting the best high- grade canvas and My skill and experience lie really with portrait painting of people, the young, the old and all in-between, rather than claiming much experience in painting pets. There are no short cuts or recourse to Photoshop, вЂњpainterlyвЂќ software, any digital trickery or slap-dash gimmickry. My paintings are painted in the traditional painstaking manner where every single brush stroke is.

I need to understand what you expect, your particular preferences, as much background information as is relevant to the final work, time deadlines and whether I can meet this. Examples of portraits I have painted recently will give an idea of my style and the result.Д®very commission to me requires an individualized approach.

Given the situation at present, I paint only from photographs and it is essential that I get as good a reference as possible. I attempt to capture the spirit of this in my realism approach.Д®very beautiful portrait is a collaboration between the artist and the subject or the commissioner. A portrait, I believe is commissioned as a commemoration of a memorable event, to celebrate a personвЂ™s life, an attempt to capture the ever-changing image of a child or as a family heirloom. My portrait painting technique represents realism but not photo-realism.

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