Newly married for 25 years

:) This is a commission I was asked to paint as a present for a 25th wedding anniversary. Here You can see both: the original photo and the photo of the painting. It was somewhat a challenge to do colors in the painting as the 25 years old photo does not the same detail as the 16 mega pixel digital photo... but it definitely was fun:) I really hope that the couple depicted have a great marriage and likes the painting:).

original

Oil portrait of newly weds 

Sisters

I think This was more interesting for me than for the client:)

Here are two portraits that belong to the same family- they are sisters. And the common thing is not only that:

1. paintings are painted from a black and white reference pictures; 
2. painted with limited color palette;
3. Acrylic on canvas
4. Size A3

Although there might be so many common things in these paintings they actually ended up to be quite different portraits.

What do You think?

R

PS. I'm going to be busy with tours for about a month, so no paintings for a while:(

Old Photo = New Painting!

We sometimes miss our loved ones that we have lost and would love to have them with us... however, we don't always have a perfect picture to enlarge and put on canvas. But You can have a painting. Here are couple of paintings, that I have done from old, black& white photograph: