Christmas is approaching and ordering a personalized artistic painting from one photo a couple of photos is really a cool gift idea for families, visiting, or party-attending. Imagine everybody is empty-handed or with flowers but you with a beautiful painting, well framed and present to the bride and groom and the whole congregation of audience would give you a round of applauses. How touching and unforgettable for your best friend in this most important moment!
How to really impress your best friends even after they bring back the painting and hang in their house or apartment? First, obviously selection of photo. You can screen from quite some photos and don’t be critical on all the details of every single photo, as painting is a reproducing process, some problems of red eyes, skin spots, wrong dress, messy background so on and so forth will not pose a problem to the painting as you can request to edit the photo by specifying your dress, background, any removal of flaws etc. to a photo to painting service. Most often, you will see an amazing picture made out after several times of edition with assistance of reference photos.
Second, choose right medium. Oil painting is by so far the most popular medium and it has its reason. Oil painting has the most comprehensive set of colors that allow artist to paint the paintings from photos from large variety of colors. Although watercolor, or gouache can do similar job by mixing colors, if theoretically speaking all colors can be generated by the 3 basic colors of red, yellow and blue. In reality, ready colors still matter to make a good transition of colors as vivid as possible.
However I notice watercolor and charcoal are picking up with the traditional medium of oil painting. In banks, hospitals, libraries, etc. you can find nice and meticulous watercolor/gouache paintings everywhere.
It doesn’t mean I have bias on pencil and color pencil. Pencil remains the best tool for all art students to capture the light/shadow of an object in classroom and for their home practice. It gives your home a academic flavor. Color pencil, given more and more color options now, becomes a very beautiful medium.
I like them as like my own children. Everyone is unique and just sometimes people may like one of my kids and another one may be better but less people appreciate her beauty because she is shy. Even pastel, seemingly chalky to me, still is a favorite for many customers in USA and Europe.
Hope you have some basic understanding on how to order a picture to painting online after reading.