About a month ago a gentleman commissioned a portrait from me. He had black and white photos of his parents and wanted them painted in color, using his own skin tones and the variations in the black and white photos as the basis and wanted his father wearing his military hat- which he was not wearing in the photo. The gentleman also wanted to show that his family came from Mexico, but had moved to the U.S. and that a direct decendant of his had fought at the Alamo and wanted the date on the flag waving over the Alamo. It was tricky getting all of that onto the painting without having too much. All the portraits that I've painted up until now have been in acrylic paints. This was my first oil portrait and I have to say that the wait time between the layers of oil paint just about drove me crazy. Ok, so, here are the black and white photos and also the finished painting - that was delivered last week. What do you think?
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Hi Terrie. Already told you I liked this painting. It's very well done. But I was wondering about the history. I'm thinking it might have been the great grandfather or possibly the great great grandfather of the person who commissioned this that fought at the Alamo....since the date on the flag is 1824 and that would be 186 years ago. Just wondering.
you did a fantastic job on this painting...going from black and white to color...adding the hat...i tend to turn down these jobs...i'll send them your way...
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