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- Painting portraits is a skill that takes years to master. As well as the technical painting skills, which you need to paint portraits, the portrait painter needs to bring out the subjects personality.

Florida, FL (prHWY.com) February 21, 2013 - Florida, Feb 21, 2013 - Painting portraits is a skill that takes years to master. As well as the technical painting skills, which you need to paint portraits, the portrait painter needs to bring out the subjects personality. The main reason a person wants a portrait painted is to present a public image.

Portrait painter to bring out this image on the canvass. A quick look of old portraits from the past show that the person getting the portrait painted (the sitter) wishes to be portrayed in a certain way. Many portraits show royalty or members of the old ruling class sat astride a horse attired in full battle dress. Obviously wishing to be shown as a warrior. Some wished to be shown as scholars and would sit surrounded by books.

A good portrait should show the sitter's deeper qualities that may not be on view in the sitter's day-to-day life. Whether these are good or bad. In the past, it was only royalty or the ruling class who could afford to get their portraits painted. Today anyone can get his or her portraits painted for a reasonable price.

There is no right or wrong way to paint a portrait. No secret way to produce a likeness of the sitter, this comes with experience and practice there is however, a few rules that a good portrait painter will work to to ensure their portraits reach a high standard.

Portrait Painting Artist - The portrait is not usually started until a number of sketches of the sitter have been made. Preliminary sketches are crucial to helping the artist work out how to transfere the sitter's features onto canvass. This requires a close inspection of the sitter and this can be achieved by careful sketching of the sitter's features. Portrait painting is not an easy art but like everything else, it can be mastered with patience and practice.

There will parts of the sitter's features that are easy to paint and can be put onto canvass with broad easy strokes but there will also be difficult features of the sitter which require more precise and detailed work.

As a rule the subject should not cover more than two thirds of the canvass, it's important that the artist gets the size of the subject right. If the subject is painted too small, then there will be too much space to fill in and this could distract from the subject. The artist will usually ensure that the source of light will fall on the sitter's face in such a way to make the best use of shadow.

About the Author:

Portrait Painting Artist - Portrait Artist and Master fine art Pastel Artist, L.A. Cline, a professional commissioned artist creates custom portraits for a variety subject matter of fine art pastel paintings from landscape paintings, family portraits, corporate portraits, nature settings, pet portraits and wildlife paintings, sports portrait paintings and so much more.

Contact Details:-

L.A.C. Fine Art, LLC.
1201 N. Federal Hwy. #4104 Fort Lauderdale,
FL. 33308

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