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Portrait Paintings From Photo - A Superior Gift!

Are you looking for a personalized unique gift idea?  Have you ever considered a portrait painting? Too time consuming to pose in a studio? Not a problem; how about a portrait painting from photo to make it easy?  Just send us your favorite picture, with your suggestions & parameters, Anne Elisabeth does the rest.

There is lots of difference in the life expectancy, and keeping of a photo vs. that of an oil painting picture, by far it is more advantageous to own a painted portrait over owning a photograph. For one, paint lasts longer.  Just visit an art museum or art gallery to view re-known paintings; many paintings are centuries old. Paintings simply don’t fade out because they are made of a high quality media. The longest lasting paintings are those painted with oil paints. Portrait painted pictures are timeless keepsakes because they are truly works of art.

Anne Elisabeth is not just offering portrait paintings from photo as an expression of her creativity (as some artists understand). She creates products that fully satisfy her customers. She can customize her product in such a way that the oil painting pictures are preferred by the customers.  She can ensure full customer satisfaction by providing them draft of her works, and modifications if necessary, until the customer is fully satisfied.

Portrait painting from photo pictures are not only unique personalized gifts, they are timeless works of art from a real artist who makes the gift more valuable.

“The Kiss” - A Couples Portrait Painting

The Kiss - A Couple\'s Portrait

Josh & Amanda

Why Commission An Artist?

Why commission an artist? Well, there are plenty of reasons, here are some situations in which you may require a custom picture:

Perhaps you are an author, or roleplayer? I sure am! I find it nice to have a picture of my character to better help depict him or her to others. Or maybe there was a certain story you enjoyed and you would like that scene put into illustration?

Custom artwork also makes great personal gifts for friends and family.

Or perhaps you have a story, website, or other personal project that you may be working on and would like an illustration or graphic for it? I can do that too!

We ran and survey for “why commission and artist?”, and here are the top answers:

1) Because he/she is talented.

2) Because he/she is a friend of mine.

3) Because I love to have original drawing about my favourite characters.

4) Because I love to help people live from their art.

5) Because of their style or skill.

6) Because he/she is famous.

Painting From Photo Process

Way before the camera and video camera were invented, portraits were painted by artists. As photographic technology developed, portraits were captured in any setting with just one click of a finger; unlike before where subjects sat and waited for hours until portraits are finished. While printed photos have an advantage in that they can be easily edited and printed. The computer world just doesn’t capture the magic of a created original painting. But you can take advantage of both worlds by commissioning Anne Elisabeth to create a painting from your photo.

Going from photo to painting is a multi-step process, which involves the following:

1) The Photo.

It all starts with an image, which can be any kind of photo. Photos can be presented as hard copy or digital images.

Although digital photos make the best choice for a photo, companies who do photo to painting understand that many clients have photos from the past that were taken when digital technology wasn’t available, so it is still possible to do so using old photos.

2) Painting Size.
Once you have selected the photo you would like turned into a painting, you will need to select the painting size.

Most companies who do photo to painting offer different painting sizes. The most common sizes are:
8.5”x11”, 14″x17″, 16″x20″, 18″x24″.

3) Painting Medium.

Next, you choose the style; pencil, acrylic, gouache, oil, pen & ink, watercolor.

4) Customizing Your Painting.

One of the many benefits of turning a photo to a painting is the possibility to do a custom painting. This means that the artist can make any types of modification to your painting. Here is a list of things which can be customized:

i) The background - If you do not like the background of the photo you have selected, or would like a plain studio background, then you can request the artist to paint it .
ii) The clothes - If the photo consists of multiple subjects, and has them looking perfect for an oil painting, maybe their clothes color or style do not match for a single oil painting. You can request from the artist to change their clothes so that they match in style and color.
iii) Combining photos - Let’s say you would like to have a family portrait done. However, you do not have a single photo of all the family members together. You could round up the best photo of each family member, and ask the artist to combine all the photos into one custom oil painting.

5) Choosing The Right Photo To Painting Artist.

Here at Portrait Paintings From Photo we offer uniqueness (a stylized and individual approach to recreating your special portrait). Anne Elisabeth imparts her spirituality to all her paintings; not an assembly-line approach.

Digital photos fade and the physical reminder of the happy event is gone. We, at Portrait Paintings From Photo would like to preserve your most cherished occasion, along with its physical memoir, thus we offer you portraits from photo. You choose the memory, we create the heirloom masterpiece.

Erin and Daniel

Erin and Daniel

This Portrait Painting is still a Work in Progress.

Parent’s Completed Wedding Portrait

Parents Portrait in Gouache, but it looks like Watercolors

My Parents Completed Gouache Painting, but it looks like Watercolors

Tim and Amanda

Tim and Amanda

Portia

Potrait of Portia done in Gouasche