Pastel Paintings - Portrait Art

Paintings from Photographs

I would be very happy to paint you, your family, four legged or winged friends for you or anything else from one or more photos!

 
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What I Need for the Portrait

  • One or more photographs of good quality which show the person(s) or pet(s) the way you would like to have it painted and with as little large areas of color swallowing shades as possible.
  • I can integrate several photos in one painting.
  • My portraits most often show one to four persons and/or animals and the background of your choosing.
  • Each person, animal and background can be taken from different photos and merged into one painting.
  • They are painted with colored pastels or as black and white pencil drawing.
  • Little things like halters and leashes can be left out, but movement or positions cannot be altered.
  • Pastel paintings will be fixated with a spray and are to be framed behind glass.
  • Portraits usually range from 8" x 12" to 18" x 24", but can be much bigger, depending on the number of objects, persons and animals in it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pricing:

Full body color portrait of 1 person / animal
Heads only color portrait of 1 person /animal
Full body black or brown charcoal portrait of 1 person / animal
Heads only black or brown charcoal portrait of 1 person /animal
Additional figures in the same portrait
$350
$250
$250
$150
$125

 

 

 

 

Additional Examples of How It's Done

 

This first portrait from the Spanish Mustang series "Spanish Mustangs In The Snow" 11-05 was a combination of 5 different photos and demonstrates the number of possibilities.

Romero, the buckskin to the left was composed from 2 pictures, which have also been reversed. Cheyenne, my companion trail pony in the middle was another picture and Born Brave, the black beauty on the right, yet another. All three horses were arranged and resized, so that their proportions would match.

The background is yet inspired by another photo, taken at our ranch in winter.

The most important thing in combining photos is that the sun light comes always from the same angle and in a similar intensity.

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"The Love of my Life - Horses" I used a photo of myself from 2006 and took a new photo of our young stallion Eagle Calling, so the light would come from the same direction and similar intensity. I merged them together after measuring exactly how big each face needed to be.

 

 

 

 

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