The Studio

Sometimes as a painter you get requests for commissions, paintings specifically ordered by a client.  Sometimes they are portraits, like the pet portraits that I do and sometimes they are scenes, locations that a person particularly likes.  But every once in a while you get an unusual request.  This was one of them.

A client approached me several months ago about painting a scene that he had envisioned.  There was no photo…just a description of something he had seen in a vision.  He described it in detail and basically it was a mountain that resembled a hand.  This is what I painted and he loved it. 

The hardest thing for painters to do is commissions.  You want to do the photo (or in this case vision) justice.  You want the client to be happy with the work.  There are expectations and you really want to meet them.  It’s a lot of pressure and it’s difficult to paint under pressure.  But it’s part of the way we make a living so we do it.  I’m glad this one turned out well but I have to say I would much prefer a photo to work from than a vision’s description.  🙂