Order an original hand-painted portrait from photograph of your son, daughter, grandchild. Commission a family portrait direct from the artist at Koehler Art Studio Gallery online or in person. The examples in this gallery of watercolor paintings of children by portrait artist Hanne Lore Koehler, are light-hearted and airy and painted in a carefree style to mirror the carefree spirits of the children. For your own personal family heirloom, commission a dramatic formal traditional style original oil painting or order an informal vibrant, lively action watercolor portrait of the children in your life. Just email your favorite photo and tell me what size and medium you are interested in and I will quote a price for the work.
Hand painted children's watercolor portraits and oil painting portraits by portrait artist Hanne Lore Koehler shown below include: painted child portrait, girl's painted portrait, boy's portrait painting, hand-painted baby portrait from photo, action watercolor portrait, toddler's painted portrait and more. Commission an oil painting portrait from photo. Inquire today. Send your photo in an email attachment for a free estimate.
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"When composing a portrait, I prefer to have the child in his/her favorite environment as opposed to a formal living room setting. When the child is relaxed and happy you can capture a more natural posture and cheerful expression. When I look at the happy faces in the portrait of our grandsons and their girlfriend I always catch myself smiling.
Contemporary portraiture, like today's lifestyle, is becoming less formal and rigid now that a subject can easily be captured in a natural unpretentious composition with the aid of photography. Formal portraits of the past were generally rigid, sterile poses for the simple reason that a person would have to sit in one position for hours in order for the artist to capture the nuances of his subject. Today's formal photographic portraits are still based on our perceptions of those formal oil paintings.
Just as life and technology have evolved over the past century, I believe that portrait art should also evolve, reflecting today's lifestyle and using today's technology. In my opinion, the artist with vision is the one who uses modern technology to his advantage. With the marvelous invention of the camera, it is no longer necessary for artists to expect their subjects to sit still for long, exhausting periods of time posing for a formal, rigid, unrealistic portrait. With the aid of modern technology, today's artist can paint action-packed detailed images from photographs to produce contemporary realistic and informal portraits. A child's portrait is more likely to evoke happy memories if the subject is engaged in a favorite activity in natural surroundings.
To be clear, I only use photographs as reference material for my original paintings, often producing detailed pencil drawings on the canvas before I paint. My portraits are hand-painted original paintings done by looking at a photograph of the subject as if the subject were sitting in my studio. They are NOT painted over top of a mechanically reproduced photograph."
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