Cat Portraits Commission Information
Portrait: 'Sophie' with Plain Background.
Size & Medium: 12 x 10 Oils on Gallery Wrap Linen Canvas.
Commissioned from: USA.
This portrait was painted in 2010 for Greg USA who commissioned the painting for his wife as a gift of their lovely cat Sophie. The portrait is an oil painting on linen canvas 12 x 10 size. Sadly since the painting was complete sophie died at the grande age of 21 but the portrait will be treasured for a very long time. I have actually added Gregs initial email / brief below as I think it gives a good insight into the kind of emails and letter and requests we receive from our clients. This one is a very interesting one about Sophie and her travels. I hope you enjoy this page of information and if you would like to commission us to paint your pet don't hesitate to email us at any time.
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Melanie and Nick,
I've seen your website and really like your work. I'd like you to do a portrait of our cat. She's 21 years old and her fur isn't what it used to be. Kind of scraggly now. The discoloration under her chin is from food. She isn't able to clean herself well any more. I'd like you not to include the discoloration. Her fur is as white as in the first two photos and although I didn't get the color right in the last photo her face is presented as she is most of the time. Still a bit curious about everything. She is an odd-eyed-white Persian. Her right eye is blue and left eye yellow. The discoloration in the corner of her eyes is more pronounced now but typical.
I'd getting this portrait for my wife. She works overseas (a human rights specialist and is currently assigned to the U.S. Army in Iraq. She has done fork for the UN, U.S. State, etc.) Sophie, our cat, has spent much time overseas with my wife on missions although now she stays with me because of her age.
Looking forward to working with you.
Cheers, Greg |
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The Cat Portrait in Progress
We try to make sure we take a number of photos of the portrait during the day and display them on our portraits in progress blog for our clients to see. We have daylight easel lamps which allow us to see the painting in pure natural light, and sometimes this lighting effect the photos that we take. This can account for colour differences between each stage and the final scan below.
The Oil Painting with Detail
We scan the majority of our artwork here in the studio, we have an epson scanner, or for the very large paintings we take photographs of the artwork using a Sony DSLR camera, a tripod and two diffused photography lights. Our scans and photographs are always perfect quality if clients require giclee prints of their hand painted portrait for friends or family.
Client Cat Portraits Reference Photos
Our clients email a range of photographs for us to work with, we use one for the main pose of the portrait and others for detail, backgrounds etc The photographs depicted below may vary in colour to the finished painting above. This can be due to the scanned oil painting being slightly different to the original or often clients give us more than one photo to work from i.e. one for the pose and another for colouring.
Client Comments and Feedback
We are always thrilled to read our clients emails, we are in touch with clients via email and sometimes via telephone, skype and texts throughout the entire process. Clients also leave us messages on our portraits in progress blog when they are watching their portrait in progress and also comment on our facebook page too. We try to add snippets of their emails here for you to read, plus you can see more photos of happy clients with the portraits in our client feedback section and on our main pet portraits website feedback section too.
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Melanie,
The portrait arrived yesterday. It looks just great! Mel is going to be so surprised and happy. Thanks so much for getting it done in the time we had. I've mentioned you to a number of my friends who know Sophie and pointed them to your website and Sophie's portrait. They've been impressed at how well you captured one of Sophie's characteristic looks. Cheers, Greg |
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