Laurel Murals

Portraits

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Portraits commemorate people we love and/or admire. Standard forms are used for business purposes, but personal portraits are only limited by one's imagination. It is possible to insert your head into a historic painting, invent other characters, scenes, and backgrounds.

Portraits may show the head and shoulders only; a 3/4 view shows from the hips upward, and of course the full body can be shown.

Effective dry media which we use include graphite, charcoal, and pastels. Wet media may be oil or acrylic on canvas.

Standard executive portraits are formal and distinguished. Oil or acrylic on canvas is best.

   Pastel on paper       

Charcoal on paper

Oil on canvas, 3/4 view

Pastel on paper, 3/4 view

Your face can be added into any Old Master painting.

Oil on canvas. Don't tell me you wouldn't love it!

Without a background, the figure is the focus.

The same portrait becomes a narrative with added background.

Oil on Canvas

 A simple costume, creates a fantasy. Charcoal on paper.

  Pastel on paper

Pastel on paper.

We'll be as bold as you are. Pastel on paper.