Have an authentic hand drawn or painted portrait made of yourself, your loved ones, your adorable pets, or even your house! All you need to do is send me a Portrait Request, along with your photo(s). Money back if unsatisfied.
Why have your portrait hand drawn or painted by an artist?
Do you have a son or daughter who is about to graduate or get married? Or perhaps you have a child who takes ballet, dance, horseback riding lessons, or plays a sport? If so, what could be a better gift than to immortalize them, along with the moment, in a work of art that is virtually timeless. Many of you have experienced getting back your photographs, such as high school pictures or expensive wedding pictures, and have been disappointed. For example, your hair may have been slightly out of place, the color of your outfit may have clashed with the background, you may have ended up with red-eye from the camera’s flash, or maybe your smile wasn’t what it should have been. Whatever the flaw may be, it can easily be perfected in a hand-painted oil portrait.
You may have an old military photo that you would like to bring back to life in a detailed painting, or perhaps the memory of your great-great grandmother, or a favorite pet. No matter what the subject is, just send the photographs needed, and they may live on in a work of art.
For centuries, oil paintings have been used to decorate homes, businesses, and offices. A personalized hand-painted portrait can be used to add to the decor, add personal value to the home, or add an air of distinction, importance, and prestige to the office or place of business.
Artwork is also a great conversational piece for when family, friends, or relatives come to visit. They make perfect gifts for Birthdays, Christmas, and/or Weddings.
If you need to get something for Mother’s or Father’s day, an original work of art would make an excellent choice to express your affection.
What I can offer that other portrait artists usually don’t.
First and foremost, most portrait artists do not offer to paint human subjects. They paint pets and animals only. A lot of artists shy away from painting people because the human face is one of the most challenging subjects to paint or draw. Humans are one of my specialties. I enjoy the challenge of capturing the very essence and unique personality of each human subject as I do with pets and animals.
Second, most artist shy away from using oil paint to paint with, which is one of the most difficult mediums to master. I have years of experience in both figure drawing and with oil paint. Other mediums such as acrylic, water-color, chalk pastels, and colored pencil just can’t produce the same look of realism as oil can. Don’t get me wrong, these mediums are all good to work in and are used by artists all the time, including myself. It’s just that when it comes to portrait art, oil has proven to be the preferred choice of many.
Third, there are a number of portrait service providers who don’t actually hand-draw or hand-paint the portraits their clients order. What they do is use computer technology to merely scan your photo, use image-based software to apply a digital filter to make it look like a drawing or painting, and then have it printed onto canvas or fine paper. This method saves time and money and, therefore, is usually much more affordable. This approach is perfectly fine if that’s what you want. I offer the same photo digital art services myself.
Forth, I can quote you a fair price. I may not be the cheapest painter on the market, but I don’t charge an arm and a leg either. Those who can quote you a cheaper price will often produce cheap work. Their work often appears flat and rushed. I have devoted a great deal of time and attention in creating a fair and competitive price that is more affordable than those who charge way too much, while maintaining quality, and those who charge too little, producing poor quality work.
Some portrait sites hire a multitude of artists, from 3rd world countries and who work far below minimum wage! But the owners’ profits remain unaffected. Be cautious of these type of sites! The portraits they create are mass produced and will not hold the same level of quality. I focus on one portrait at a time, and work with each client one-on-one.
Last but not least, I stretch my own canvases by hand. Store-bought canvases can at times lack quality. Stretching canvases by hand helps to insure your canvas will not have warped or cracked stretcher-bars.
Why Oil Paint?
If you are looking for vibrant, rich colors, longevity, and the look of a professional and prestigious painting, then a painting in oil is the way to go. Oil’s versatile characteristics give artists the ability to vary surface texture and to achieve far greater detail. Oils allow the blending of color more uniformly since it can be worked while wet, whereas other painting mediums dry too soon upon application. These gradual transitions between colors help to enhance the subtle differences between light and shadow and gives the look of realistic three dimensional space,
depth, and continuity.
In terms of portrait art, oil paintings are usually considered to be more valuable! Oil paint is long lasting and has been the choice of almost all the known masters. Beginning with the Renaissance era, artists like Jan van Eyck, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael, to name a popular few, helped to popularize the use of oil. Oil was also used during the Baroque period, which reflected the characteristics of nobility and magnificence through ornateness and realism, by artists like Peter Paul Rubens, Jacob van Ruisdael, and Rembrandt, who is particularly famous for portrait art. Oil paint continued to be widely used by artists through the Enlightenment period, and through the Age of Industry. Other well known artists such as Vincent Van Gogh, Renoir, Manet, Degas, Seurat, Cezanne, and the father of Impressionism Claude Monet, all have used oil, along with countless modern day contemporary artists. Thankfully, oil paint is here to stay. It’s a great medium to work in and look at!
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Contact me: Guyus@GuyusArt.com
