Cat Portraits Commission Information
Portrait: 'Barney and Zorro' with Plain Background.
Size & Medium: 24 x 20 Oils on Gallery Wrap Linen Canvas.
Commissioned from: UK / France.
This portrait was commissioned as a birthday surprise by Alan for his wife in August 2011. The painting is of their two gorgeous cats called Barney and Zorro. I have taken quite a few photos of Nick during the painting process and you can see them on this page along with a few of the reference photos Alan sent Nick to work from. You can also view close up details of the painting, the framed portrait, photos of the client with the portrait and a photo of Nick signing the portrait too. 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.
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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Good morning Melanie,
The portrait looks fabulous (even at this distance!). Thank you both so much for all your hard and wonderful work. Nick is certainly very talented and doubtless immensely patient - you seem to complement each others' skills so well!!!
Many thanks.
Best wishes.
Alan X
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Fantastic Melanie, thanks so much...I'm really getting very excited...actually I don't know how Nick copes with all the deadline strains and stresses! I will look at your blog to see the progression in the next day or so....in the meantime, you deserve much praise to fit in the blogs...it is a terrific idea. From a client perspective, it makes one feel 'special' and in receipt of personal attention; also the way you integrate the stages of development is both interesting and helpful. I am sure all your clients appreciate this form of 'instant and regular' update on their commissions.....
Again Melanie, thanks so much for updating me via the site/blog.
Best wishes.
Alan X |
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The Portrait Being Signed
The Cat Portrait Framed
We provide our clients with a full bespoke framing service, our local framer Jane can supply frames to suit most home decors and tastes. Clients can alternatively have their portrait framer locally to the - or hang their portrait unframed. You can view larger images of our framed portraits in our framing section and even more on our main pet portraits website.
Final Result - The Portrait with happy clients!
 
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