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Photo Requirements for Portrait Ordering
It is the search for photos that should be taken very seriously, because the quality of the portrait will depend on them. It so happens that the customer requests a portrait of good quality, but at the same time provides photos with poor sharpness. No matter how experienced the master is, and no matter how good the artist is, if the photo is bad, the quality of the portrait will be appropriate. Judge for yourself … The artist has never in his life seen the person being portrayed, and the master needs to create a portrait to order from the photo. All that the creator has is a photograph of the customer, and he doesn’t know what the portrait looks like. It does not matter whether you want a portrait to order with a cheap pencil or a portrait with oil paints, the quality of the photo should be perfect. Continue reading
How to evaluate a portrait?
How to understand whether the order is well executed or not? Do you think that the criteria for evaluating a good portrait is only similarity with a person and smooth painting? You are deeply mistaken! Most of the portraits have no artistic value. Rather, these are embellished pictures and, if you do not understand the intricacies of portraiture, it is very easy to get into a mess.
To draw a portrait to order similar to the photo is not difficult. It is difficult to write it according to the laws of beauty, in an academic direction, observing all the rules, the basics of painting. What are these fundamentals and what should one pay attention to first of all? Continue reading
Famous works of art that were destroyed by criminals
Works of art always attract attention. The creations of the great masters of the past, in addition to their beauty, also possess quite material attractiveness for the criminal world. Criminals often steal pictures hoping to cash in on them. However, when the danger of exposure is presented to the robbers, they may well destroy a brilliant creation, despite its artistic and historical value.
The Spanish painter was always eccentric, but he didn’t like to let people down without keeping his own promises. When he was invited in 1965 to address prisoners at Rikers Island Prison, located on the American island, Daly agreed. However, the disease made him refuse to speak. Continue reading
