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WHAT ABOUT GIFT CERTIFICATES:
If your wanting to 'gift' a pet portrait and do not want to be the person selecting the photographs then I can arrange the prepaid amount you want to gift then I can either send in 'snail' mail a 'gift certificate' for pet portrait in the amount you paid or email 'gift certificate' in your name.
Pet Portrait gifts are a wonderful experience to receive and most popular to gift someone who adores their pet. My experience for several years of painting pet portraits for gifts, is it has been an expressed heartfelt joy for those who received the pet portraits and warning that tears of joy can happen!!!
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Minaz Jantz (Nova Scotia, Canada)
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Fine Art - Pet Portraits by Minaz Jantz includes the practice of Old Master painting techniques, joined with design concepts, using artist quality oil paints and soft pastels. Your Fine Art - Pet Portrait will be the talk of viewing visitors and a family treasure, furever...
Minaz states to her pet models and human models, " How can I make you famous if you don't sit still for the pose... of course, only if you want to become famous in art history!". minaz@artgirlgallery.com
PHOTOGRAPH PAINTING
PHOTOGRAPH PAINTING
PHOTOGRAPH PAINTING
PHOTOGRAPH PAINTING
WHAT TO EXPECT:
My painting style has been described as representational, realistic, surrealistic and contemporary, involving colorful compositions, expressive designs, sensual painting surfaces, with insightful humor, all resembling the honored pet. Finished works are 'like' the photo but made to be influenced by my style and design. Also note that computers & printers do not express orginal art in it's reality.
Painting Fine Art - Pet Portraits evoke my sweet love and humbling honor for all animals living with Mother Earth . My creative aim for painting Pet Portraits, is their image to be better appreciated than 'just' another fading pet photograph sitting in a box of memories or stored in your hard drive.
PHOTOGRAPH PAINTING
PHOTOGRAPH PAINTING
.WHAT DO YOU NEED TO PREPARE:
Photographs are key importance to helping me paint as you see them. I can use both digital jpeg's and photographs that are scanned. I can copy slides, negatives, or prints if you wish so will give back your originals untouched.
Each pet portrait is artistically interpreted and characterized by my creative vision, fusing your participation from the delightful stories you tell me about the character of the pet. Also you will be confirming background additions, details, colors, etc. before I get started. Thankfully, everything can be done through the Internet.
Once we agree to what you want as a pet portrait, a full payment will be needed before I start the Pet Portrait. I will update you on the process of the painting. I use PAYPALL to process the order. Also we will discuss the best shipping possibilities depending on where you live.
All ideas are possibilities and will be discussed during the photo referencing whether you want close-up, full body, or partial body portraits and if you want added pets or people in one picture. The price for adding one other face will be a $50.00 CND fee. Pastel portraits can start at $350.00 for a completed 9"x11" and will be shipped with a matt frame to protect and use with your choice of framing. Contact me about prices for larger works. CONTACT: minaz@artgirlgallery.com
PHOTOGRAPH PAINTING
PHOTOGRAPH PAINTING
WHAT is... THE BEST SELECTED PHOTOGRAPHS:
1. Occasionally, there is the ONE most perfect photograph or you ONLY have one photograph.
2. I like to have several angles of the pet so I can get the full nuances that show the pet's uniqueness in colors etc. if you have them.
3. Full body poses are good as well as close up views of faces for details and character.
4. It can be most difficult to get pictures that are not blurred unless they are sleeping or just too old to move, I can and have worked with blurr but it is a challenge and creatively interpreted.
HOW LONG... TO PAINT PET PORTRAIT:
After all of our agreements and payment, I can usually within reason paint a 9"x11" pastel in one week and even sooner depending on perfect timing. An oil painting needs much more time for drying and curing, sometimes taking months to dry before varnishing.. CLICK here to find out more about oil paint and soft pastels as painting mediums.
WHAT HAPPENS... AFTER COMPLETION:
Once your Fine Art - Pet Portrait painting is completed, I will photograph it for your 'collectors' documented copy, adding important knowledge, including collection value, pertinent details about the painting's materials, dates, and valid artist signatures, copyrights, framing suggestions, etc.
I will ship wherever you want me to send it and have successfully shipped across CANADA, USA, FRANCE, & BERLIN. Shipping rates vary and customs are your expense. We will discuss this in inital interview.
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What is soft Pastel?
Artist quality soft pastel is often described as chalk which is not correct. These two substances are very different. The familiar board chalk is a limestone substance with lots of filler making it cheap to purchase unlike soft pastel's which can cost on average $3.00 - $10.00 a color stick for which a serious pastel artist would have organized drawers full of many brands and colors.
Artist quality soft pastel is made from ground, dry, 99% aprox. pure pigments. The soft pastels are mainly used as pure pigments with a minimum of binders added to make a paste that is either hand or machine rolled into different sizes of round & square sticks, blocks & pots each depending on the brand of pastel.
Each soft pastel brand has unique mixtures of pigments creating their own blends of colors while also having it's own action and expression while applying the pastel to a surface. Every brand of pastel is like using different styles of brushes with liquid mediums usually added to oil, watercolor, & acrylic paint to alter its results. Unison & Sennelier pastels are great for glazing techniques, Rembrandt pastels are harder so used for detailing and drawing abilities, Schminke pastel is very buttery to touch and leaves a chunky surface style called impasto for a painterly final layer.
You might wonder how pastel ages versus oil, watercolor, and acrylic paintings? Pastels have been used by many artists since the 16th century. Cave man was the first to try out this chalky art medium for their cave graffiti. Pastel is the most permanent of all painting mediums because it is not diluted nor mixed with substances that will fade, crack, or darken over time like oils , watercolors & acrylic.
Some care is essential for pastel preservation such as using glass (regular or UV) with framing and not Plexiglas as it causes the pastel particles to become static electricity. Do not place a pastel painting (or any original art) in direct sunlight because of moisture sweating under the glass and the sun bleaches while destroying everything in it's path.
When transporting your pastel painting try not to bang it sharply as this will slightly loosen some pastel particles which you can decide to replace the matting with new matting or live with it. There is a more expensive style of double matting with a space designed at the bottom of the painting for pastel particles to fall in behind. This is done by professional framers who have worked with original works of art and know how to handle pastel paintings. Always keep the pastel painting facing upwards when it is being transported.
There is a world wide revival of artists using soft pastels demonstrating exquisite qualities to make of any expression, subject and style. Pastels have a wonderful ability for the making of multi-media paintings using them in conjunction with oils, acrylics, inks, pencil, conte, watercolor, etc.
Art history demonstrates the art masters who have painted many subjects and styles in pastel: Rosalba Carriera, Watteau, Copley, Delacroix, Millet, Renoir, Toulouse Latrec, Vuillard, Bonnard, Glackens, Whistler, Hassam, William Merritt Chase, LaTour Chardin, Edgar Degas, Mary Cassat, Berthe Morisot, etc.
History & Methods of Oil Painting
Oil Paint has gone through many challenges and changes since the end of the Roman Empire. The types of oils used in the mixtures of oil paint depended on the local availability of oils. Each artist would experiment & develop oil formulas usually keeping it as their trade secret. Ancient Greece and Italy used their abundant olive oil supply while the Japanese during the 8th century used perilla oil. A 14th century Italian oil painter, Cennino d'Andrea Cennini (c. 1370 – c. 1440) used a style of tempera painting (pigments mixed with egg yolk) adding a glazing of oil after each layer to create a luminous effect.
How oil dries is most important to the artist using oil paints. Each type of oil brings its own unique attributes to the preservation, luminous quality and drying time for the oil painting. Some of the oils used are: flax, walnut, poppy seed, linseed, Tung, oiticca, soybean, and perilla oil. These would be mixed in with fine ground mineral pigments, cooked and mixed with other additives such as lead oxide, turpentine, marogar (lead dryer,) etc. The ideal medium mixture remains colorless not interfering with the color of the pigment while also giving lasting permanence.
Oil paint needs to be applied to a prepared gesso surface (canvas, wood, paper) not only for even texture but also to seal it so that the oils do not penetrate the fibers eventually prematurely aging and eventually rotting the painting. Gesso is Italian for gypsum (calcium sulphate dehydrate). Gesso has been used on wood panels by medieval painters to seal the surface while giving an even smooth surface for the application of oil paints and gold gilding techniques. Many artists today use acrylic polymer primer which has been given the name ‘gesso’ to associate with traditional gesso.
The artists Rembrandt and Rubens used the indirect painting method with each layer of oil paint building in to a rich glowing painting. Indirect painting requires ‘fat over lean’ meaning the initial layer is thinned with paint thinner and no oil mediums are used for the first stage of the painting process. The painter then adds only a minimal amount of oil medium. The final layer has much more oil medium giving the surface and reflection of colors a dimensional glowing glaze. The reason for the rule ‘fat over lean’ is to reduce the amount of crackling that occurs over time because of the variety of painting layers drying at different speeds depending on the amount of oil in each layer of paint.
Oil paintings can take 3 months to 2 years to dry and only then can it be varnished to protect the painting for longevity and preservation. Over many years, an oil painting will change in appreances caused by the collecting dust, smoke, and the chemical changes of the oils and mediums. To clean and revarnish an oil painting, you must find a qulaified person who can strip the old varnish off, maybe making some repairs of chips or cracks, then will revarnish the oil painting making it look as new as the day the painter painted it.
Direct painting was the method Impressionist artists used to create a painting in a single sitting. The Impressionist painters like Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin &Toulouse-Lautrec broke all the rules of academic painting by using mostly opaque colors while leaving thicker brush strokes of pure paint creating textural layers to the surface. The studio used to be where the artist painted but the impressionist painter decided to take it outdoors (called en plein air) and to public places where the painting was mostly created within a few hours and maybe touched up once back at the studio. Unlike the indirect painting method that could take months to years to complete.
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