Gifting a portrait painting handmade is worldwide trend in current times. Custom hand painted portrait is a thoughtful gift. These days finding a “portrait painting” website is easy. You search any term in Google, Bing or Yahoo, related to turning your photo into painting like “painting from photo”, “portrait artist near me”, “hand drawn sketch” etc. What you find is many websites floating on the search engines as soon as you write a key word and press enter.
But, answer a question for yourself!
When you decided to convert a photograph into handmade painting, what is the important factor you need to consider?
- Choosing a “Best Portrait Website” is important? OR
- Choosing a “Best Portrait Artist” is important?
Yes, it’s very important to think about this, especially when you want an artwork custom hand painted by an artist.
And the obvious answer is finding the best portrait artist who has his own website/portfolio live for his customers and art lovers.
Why it is important to choose the artist?
There are many thousands of portrait painting websites available online, but 80% of them are handled by third-party contractors. When you buy a portrait painting from third-party contractor, you never get an opportunity to talk to the original artists, because the website works with different artists.
Communication is the key tip for commissioning a portrait painter. It’s very important to be in contact with the artist to work out every detail. Moreover, artist is the person who is doing your work. He/she has complete idea about sizes, art mediums, background colors and styles.
A painting is personalized gift and portrait painting evokes emotions in it. To turn your photo to superior quality painting with artistic touch and feel, communicating directly with the artist is important. He / She also can provide you the suggestions with his/her great knowledge in the field.
The above two sayings reveal everything, why it is important to communicate with portrait artist, before ordering a portrait painting of photos online.
Last but not the least, “PRICING” is concern of everybody.
If you are choosing a third party website, your are paying two people
- The middlemen (website)
- The artist
Contractors are the middlemen, so they see their own profit first and process it accordingly. And the irony is, you don’t actually know the artist who is creating your art.
Most of the artists paint at a fairly low price. Also give guarantee for the quality. And if the artist is genuine, he or she definitely shares you the artwork preview through email. Be cautious, if your artist is not ready to offer this.
Now, we talk about, why it is important for an artist to have a website.
In present days, people got too busy and internet is a part of everybody’s life. People neither have an interest to personally visit the artist gallery not time.
But how you get to know the artist is genuine and he/she is the right portrait artist to create your precious painting.
That’s the reason you need to choose a portrait artist who has his own website.
- See the artist’s gallery, pay attention to art styles and details of the artwork.
- An experienced portrait artist has large collection of artworks to view.
- See if there is a likeness in the paintings.
- Look at his Bio, FAQ page to know what all details the artist requires to create your portrait painting artwork.
- Ask his prices and also about quality guarantee, whether the artist shares the preview or not before dispatching.
- Check the flexible payment options and proceed accordingly. Then discuss with the artist about your requirement. Once you get all the details, and satisfied with artist’s procedure of work, you can easily place the portrait order online.
Get to know about your artist, it’s worth your time.
Artist Partha Biswas is the owner of Kalakari Handmade Paintings (www.kalakari.com / www.kalakari.in) and a talented portrait artist with experience of 18 years. He makes all types paintings and specialized in portrait painting. He is well known for his great and fine detailing work and creating high quality paintings from blur images.
Visit www.kalakari.in as well as www.kalakari.com to directly talk to the artist and discuss about your portrait painting.