fine art oil portraits
Bring your family portraits to life the old fashioned way— with a paintbrush and oil paint.
While our classic ‘Impasto Photography’ hybrid photography & painting masterpieces are what we’ve become known for, traditional portrait painting was where everything began.
Full of uniqueness, character, and style, a fine art oil portrait of your nearest and dearest will certainly have your heart overflowing!
Differences between our Fine Art Oil Portraits & our classic Impasto Photography portraits
While our fine art portraits are similar to their Impasto photography cousins, being a different medium, there are a few differences:
Style:
Our fine art portraits, while having the all important quality of resembling the subjects likeness, move away from the exacting photographic portrayal of our Impasto Photography creations, and towards a more abstracted painterly approach.
Creation process:
The process to create our fine art oil portraits is similar to how we create our Impasto Photography portraits. We have a photographic session where we take the images that will become the reference for the portrait, followed by creating a digitally produced preliminary artwork for you to see prior to creating your final painted artwork.
After this step however, instead of going through the print production process like we would with our Impasto Photography artworks, we launch straight into painting on canvas; using the digitally produced preliminary artwork to inform the colour and composition of the final painted fine art oil portrait.
Sizing:
With the size of a paintbrush being far greater than the size of a tiny drop of ink from a printer, we’ll usually need to create our fine art oil portraits larger than the smallest Impasto Photography portraits we offer- it’s just not possible to paint faces so small!
The only exception to this are the individual portraits which can be produced starting at the smallest size (A3). This is because they only contain a close-up of a face.
Here’s the minimum sizes our fine art oil portraits can be:
Landscape Orientation
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1 person: $899
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1 person: $1349 .
2 people: $1499
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1 person: $1799
2 people: $1949
3 people: $2099
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2 people: $2399
3 people: $2549
4 people: $2699
Portrait Orientation
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1 person: $899
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1 person: $1349
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1 person: $1799
1 person with body: $1949
2 people: $1949
2 people with body: $1949
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2 people: $2399
2 people with body: $2549
3 people: $2549
3 people with body: $2999
*Can include more people, but the additional people must fit within the body width specified; for instance, 2 people in front, and 3 behind= 3 people. Each additional person is $150.