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Commission An Original
Portrait Of Place
Digital Based Print (DBP) original is a way of working I developed with an Amiga
computer in 1985. From this method I have continued a project called Portrait Of Place
which started long ago. These works have developed with traditional paintings as well
as developmental media. It has grown into a complex way of working combining
photography, drawing, printmaking, and painting. A Portrait Of Place usually begins
with a location photo shoot, and notes on color. I go over the pictures and decide
what best represents the portrait I am looking for. It may require another shoot to
gather support material. When all my notes, drawings, and photographs are complete, I
experiment in the computer environment until a sense of the image is worked out. At
this point I may make working prints to continue working from. Some of these prints
become paintings. Although the starting image may be a print on canvas, I describe it
as a painting at the point where the painting process takes over and determines the
fate of the image. I have always worked in the series and am comfortable in the
process of discovering many possibilities based on a theme. The painting has often been re-digitized and brought back into the computer environment. These cycles sometimes continue over the years. A commissioned work is usually more direct, however as an artist I always reserve the right to continue a work beyond the commissioned assignment. The commissioned work may be finished and delivered to the client while the image is re-digitized and continued in the process to fulfill the goals that artistic discovery requires.
There are three basic ways to commission a Portrait Of Place.
1. A client may
admire an existing work and desire to commission an original based on it.
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The $ 1,000.00 retainer is a starting payment. This lets us know you are a serious
client. We then contact you and get the specifics necessary to start the work. You
will be given a final purchase price when your work is approved.
2. There may be
a special place a client would like to see developed into a Portrait Of Place.
You may use the Portrait Commission Management Form.
The cost of this type of work is greater as it involves start up and location visits,
travel and so forth. As a first step you will be asked to uplode or provide any
pictures you may have as well as specifics on the location.
3. There may be a
project the client would like to see developed into a series.
An example of a series:
Harvard
Yale
Provincetown
I am not an illustrator
and all projects and individual works must fit the esthetic concept I work from.
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