Paintings From Photo

Painting Mediums & Color Renderings

Drawing is not simply the first step in making a painting, though many artists do create drawings which they then use for paintings. Drawing is a different way of creating art. Having drawing skills will help with your painting, but if you hate pencils and charcoal, this doesn’t mean you can’t paint.

Though local portraiture artist Anne Elisabeth primarily services the Raleigh, NC area, portrait paintings from photographs can be rendered for folks all over the USA, in various mediums. Below are some of the most popular art styles of original canvas paintings:

Acrylic Paintings

Instead of mixing paint on a palette and then applying it to a canvas, you can also build up color by painting glazes. It is a painting technique that requires a bit of patience as each glaze or layer needs to be totally dry before the next is applied, though with acrylics, of course, you don’t have to wait very long.

Colored Pencil Drawings

Explore the handling of colored pencils, layering and mixing, and special characteristics of the medium, including transparency, wax bloom and paper grain. It takes Pencil Drawing to a whole new level. The distinct qualities of Colored Pencils allow for unique color blending, color manipulation and mark-making.

Gouache Portrayals

Gouache (pronounced “goo-wash” or “g-wash”) is an water-soluble paint that is opaque, rather than transparent like watercolor. Gouache and watercolor paints can be used together. One example is, white gouache; unlike watercolors, where the paper is preserved, or kept pristine, as the white in the painting.

Pen And Ink Drawings

Pen and Ink drawing is one of the cheapest and easiest drawing mediums. Sure, you can’t rub out mistakes, but that’s the adventure - those happy accidents! Only with Pen and Ink can one learn and enjoy the ‘art’ of including stippling (pointillist) and pen and wash techniques.

Storybook Illustrations

Storybook Art is ideal for use by classroom teachers or home schooling parents as part of a curriculum for children between the ages of 4 – 12.

Encouraging children to explore the various illustration techniques can provide them with inspiration for illustrating their own stories. It can also help them to better evaluate the techniques and details of illustrations in their own favorite picture books.

Oil Portrait Paintings

Oils have been a favorite of painters since their introduction during the Renaissance. Oil paints are extremely versatile. They can be used thickly in impasto or extremely thinly in glazes; they can be opaque or transparent.

Watercolor Prints

Watercolor is a medium that scares and discourages many people, because it is unpredictable, difficult or impossible to correct or change, it leaks, it streaks, and makes the paper buckle. But, with proper training, students can master the techniques necessary create beautiful portraits.

The traditional and most common support for watercolor paintings is paper; other supports include papyrus, bark papers, plastics, vellum or leather, fabric, wood, and canvas.