Portraits by Brushstokes

[Sharon Knettell]

Originally Posted by Allan Rahbek

There'll always be someone who cares, one in a million, like it use to be.
How many percent settles usually with a handheld, shaken, flash photo of their loved ones anyway ?
Maybe they are smart after-all ?

Alan,

I do not think many would. However many people are far more adept at taking pictures now, the cameras are so user friendly. We have relatives who take pictures of their loved ones and have calenders made. A good friend of ours takes beautiful Christmas card pictures of her children every year, everyone of them could be a painting and she is a medical secretary. People could have photographs that have been professionally taken, ie. weddings, proms, school pictures etc. and have them made into paintings for $250. They need not be amateur or bad photos at all. The site gives recommendations for the pictures.

[Allan Rahbek]

Sharon,
good or bad photos are still photos and turning them into paintings, that look like photos, don't add anything.
Most of us knows that the force of a good painting is the footsteps of the dancing brush.
No photograph can ever mimic that or provide you with that sort of energy. A good painting is the result of a selection process, the artists will. Photos can be used for reference, but very, very rarely be used as is, in my opinion.
How can people, who don't know the slightest about painting, produce a usefully reference that can stand on its own ?

[Sharon Knettell]

Hmmm......Actually the painting in the catalogue is quite lovely, and they do say that it is an oil by a hand selected master.

I WAS thinking of having a Summer Special, 20% off my already low prices. I would take the pictures, and have them painted by this company, and mark them up. Then I could take the summer off while they are being painted in China. I could add a few Knettell flourishes, whatever that is and make quite a good living very easily. If it went well I could extend the special.

[Cindy Procious]

Okay, Sharon, this devil's advocate tact is FREAKING me out! LOL.