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How to Choose the Right Artist to Paint a Portrait From Your Photograph

by Royane Real

Have you ever thought of getting a custom portrait painted as a gift for a friend or a family member?

When you get a really high quality painting made from a favorite photograph, the resulting art work will be an appreciated gift, and a priceless family treasure.

How do you get a good quality painting made from your photo? So much depends on the skill and the experience of the artist that you select. When choosing an artist to paint a custom portrait, or as a gift for a loved one, you need to select an artist who is expert at painting in the style known as photo-realism.

Photo-realism is a style of painting where the artist creates a very exact, extremely detailed, accurate depiction of the subject matter.

This highly detailed, accurate style is also known by several other names. For example, a photo-realistic painting may also be called hyper-realistic, or super-realistic art.

One characteristic that all photo-realistic paintings have in common is their extreme attention to detail. Whether the artist is working in watercolors, oil, or acrylic, the final picture will be very detailed and accurate.

In some cases, a painting done in a photo-realistic style will be so accurate, and so detailed that it's hard to tell it apart from a photograph!

In the contemporary art world, the ability to paint portraits and objects in a realistic manner is quite rare. Few contemporary artists have the ability and the training to paint portraits of people, pets or other objects in a way that makes the paintings look completely accurate and realistic.

In recent decades, photo-realistic painting has gone in and out of style with professional art critics and art galleries, but the realistic style of painting has always remained highly popular with the public.

If you have a picture hanging on your wall that has been painted in the photo-realistic style, you can be assuured that everyone who sees it will make remarks like, "Wow, that painting looks so real, it's like a photograph!" Or, "That artist sure is talented!"

For many centuries in the past, only very wealthy people such as kings and queens, and rich merchants could afford to hire classical skilled artists to paint portraits of themselves and their families. Only the very wealthy could own beautiful, original portraits of themselves, their families and favorite pets, or their most prized possesions.

Now you can experience the traditional privelege formerly reserved for only the wealthiest artistocrats.

You can own a unique, custom painted portrait hanging in your home, a commissioned artwork painted especially for you, from a photograph. No one else anywhere will have one like it.

This custom-made work of art will be so beautifully painted, so realistically detailed, that it will be a priceless heirloom you can proudly hand down to future generations.

Whether you love watercolor paintings or oil, pastel drawings or acrylic, you can have a favorite photo turned into a beautiful work of art lovingly reproduced in your favorite style and medium.

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