Triple Labrador Oil Portrait

Welcome to the triple Labrador oil portrait of Maco, Rex & Rosie. Our client Katie contacted us asking if Nicholas could paint their dogs for birthday surprise. Katie inlisted her daughters helping in taking photos. She took a number of fantastic photos of the dogs in their garden on a sunny day. Taking a variety of photos of the dogs all together they too took some individual photos of each dog too. This was fabulous as we could see them in more detail. They also wanted their garden as background for the portrait. They took a few further photos of their garden from varying angles for us to use. Using a familiar background for the portrait really helps to make the painting feel personal.

Taking good quality photos makes a huge difference to us as artists. To be able to paint the animals in detail, especially to get the lighting correct is essential. We are truly grateful as to how patient our clients are when taking photos. Our photography tips webpage is very helpful for clients.

We received this email from Katie after her husband received the painting…

Hi Melanie and Nicholas,
Andrzej my husband is absolutely thrilled with the picture and he is a hard task master when it come’s to these things. His face when he opened it was sheer joy and he is really appreciative of the skill and expertise that has gone into it. You have captured each dog perfectly.
I will send you a picture in due course.
Mel/Nick – thank you so much
Regards
Katie

Triple Labrador Oil Portrait Photos

I have added a photo that shows the painting close up with Nicholas’ hand in the frame so you can see the scale of the painting.

Oil Portrait Framed

Here are the photos of Macko, Rex and Rosie’s pet portrait framed. The frame is our beautiful Chelsea frame and it works absolutely stunningly with this painting. The colours and tones also work really well with natural greens, particularly the garden / landscape scenes which Nicholas paints. His colour pallet is very natural and organic and so the overall feel to his paintings are very calming.

Oil Portrait of Maco, Rex & Rosie – Packaging

When our paintings are framed we need to protect them as best we can as they are sent to our clients via courier. They travel far and wide and sometimes have quite long journeys, to America and Australia for instance.

For all framed paintings we use a really sturdy foam edging which protects the frame beautifully. The photo below is the most recent pet portrait to be packed. If you head over to our ‘pet portraits commissioning process‘ page you can see why it takes me a few hours to pack each one.

The photo shows the portrait with the foam edging all being held in place by ‘happy wrap’. I am never too sure what the ‘happy wrap’ is officially called. It’s just my term for it as I find it so fun to use.. it really makes me happy! It comes on a roll with a plastic handle. You wrap it around the edges of the frame and it sticks to itself. Its absolutely brilliant, far better than parcel tape. Once the portrait is at this stage, I then wrap it in foam wrap, cut two sheets of hardboard and then wrap it in more foam wrap.

Finally if you would like your labradors painted, please drop us a lie, we would love to work with you. Especially if you have three gorgeous labs like Maco, Rex and Rosie!

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