Portrait is referred as a face painting of the person and sometimes, a painting of whole body. An artist captures the characteristics and distinctive attributes of an individual. In ancient days, well known people used to get their portrait paintings made, to be conserved for future generations.
In olden days portrait making was a costly process, and people used to sit for so long time for their portrait art. When photography was not there, oil paintings was the art medium used by artists and it was very popular.
But, in current times, the scenario has entirely got changed and it became feasible for the artists as well as clients. There are many art mediums introduced at very affordable price and photographs made it easy for the individuals to get their painting made from photographs.
Why the demand and cost of an oil portrait painting is on a rise even today?
Most of the people love to get their artwork done in oil painting medium whether it is a portrait or a painting for home decoration. Oil paintings look so attractive because of their richness of paint colors and flexibility in giving variety of textures. This is the reason why, oil painting is a preferable medium. But fact is that, artists need to put lot of efforts and time to create an oil painting. In fact the materials used like colors of oil art medium is also costly. So, if you are choosing an experienced artist who creates master piece artwork for you, it will be little costly. The price they charge, value their artwork. Commissioning an oil portrait from photograph may be little costly but the artwork you get worth the money you spend.