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Introduction

Hi there! Welcome to ANNA BREGMAN PORTRAITS Squidoo Lens. I am a portrait artist who paints and draws people and pets, particularly children's portraits. I work usually in graphite pencil or oil paint and create photos directly from my customer's favourite photographs. I am based in London, UK and can send portraits out to more or less anywhere in the world

Below, you can view my galleries for work in both media and find out more about how the process of commissioning a portrait works. If you'd like to see more portraits, just click here for my website Portrait artist Anna Bregman for more images, information and price lists. You can also email me here with any questions.

If you are interested in drawing or painting yourself, you can also visit my other lenses for advice on HOW TO DRAW PORTRAITS and USING OIL PAINTS - see my 'Other Lenses' section at the bottom of the page.

'Zoe'

'Serali'

'Chloe'

'Maisie'

'Lucas'

'Alice'

'Olivia'

'Isla, Robert and Kevina'

'Max and Emma'

'Sam'

About My Pencil Portraits

I love drawing pencil portraits and have several rules I try to stick to - keep a delicate touch, 'hatch' lightly instead of rubbing in the pencil with my fingers, and don't cover the whole of the face in grey shades. I use a wide range of pencil 'grades', from 2H down to 8B, which is a very soft dark pencil. I work on a heavy-weight cartridge paper which can take a bit of rubbing out, as I like to work into the hair on my portraits with different types of eraser so that I can actually 'layer' it.

Pencil drawings are a more economic option than a painting if you are interested in commissioning a portrait because they are quicker to complete. I like to find out as much as you can tell me about the person that the portrait is of so I can try to capture that personality in their pencil portrait.

You can see more Pencil Portraits here by clicking the link, or if you'd like some tips on how to draw, see my Squidoo HOW TO DRAW PEOPLE lens

Oil Portraits Gallery

'Luke'

'Lucas'

'Alice'

'Isobella'

'Eleanor'

'Harvey'

'Zoe'

'Ella'

'Bernice and Jan'

'Sam'

About My Oil Portraits

I prefer oil paints to acrylics or other types of paint - I love their buttery texture and the way they take a while to dry so that I can continue to work into them. I usually complete my oil paintings in several layers, and these layers can take up to a week each to dry, so bear this fact in mind if you are commissioning a painting for a particular date and get in touch early.

I use Windsor & Newton's 'Artists' Oil Colour' range of paints as I like their stiff consistency. If you commission an oil portrait, you'll be able to choose between a traditional 'stretched' canvas, or a flat 'canvas board'.

A 'stretched canvas' below left, is usually between half and inch and two inches thick, and can be either framed or hung straight on the wall for a more modern look. Let me know if this is how you are going to hang your portrait so I can finish the sides nicely.

A 'canvas board' below right, is made from a cotton canvas fabric stretched over a strong board and glued firmly down. It looks pretty much like a stretched canvas and is a good option if you are going to have your portrait framed as it is only about an eighth of an inch thick, so you can use even a very shallow frame.

You can see more oil portraits here by clicking the link, or if you'd like to try oil painting yourself, you could view my Squidoo Oil Painting guides to CANVASES, PAINTS and TECHNIQUES.

Pet Portraits Gallery

'Poppy'

'Minnie'

'Mack'

'Pickle'

'Willow'

'Thomas'

'Houdini

'Bramble and Difa'

'Mystic River'

'Boots'

About My Pet Portraits

For a pet portrait you can choose between oils and pencil - if you'd like a painting then be sure to send me more than one photo of your pet so that I can get their colouring exactly right, as a single photo can be really misleading depending on the light it was taken in! As with people, it's worth doing taking some new photos of your pet specifically for their portrait if you can - remembering to take off any leads, tags or bridles you don't want to appear in the portrait (and trying not to cut off their paws!)

How to go about commissioning a portrait

A quick summary

Dig through your photos. You'll find more information about what makes a good photo for a portrait artist to work from, below. Or - do a little photo shoot and take some new snaps!
Get in touch with me and discuss what you'd like from your portrait - what size you'd like it to be, what kind of style you'd like and whether you'd like a pencil portrait or an painted portrait. You can also get a no-obligation quote if you'd just like to think about it.
When you are ready, email or send me your photos. The very best option is digital photographs emailed straight through to me, as these give me a large amount of detail to work from. If your photos are hard copies, I'd suggest taking them to a photo developer to get copies (preferably enlargements) made and sending me them by regular mail. If you know how to use a scanner at a high resolution (at least 300 dpi) then this is a good option too.
I will then start work on your portrait and when it's at a point where I think it might be finished, I'll take a photo of it and email or mail it to you to check. At this point you can let me know if there's anything about it that you'd like to change and whether you are happy with the likeness.
When you are completely happy with how your portrait looks, I send it straight out to you.

What sort of photos I like to work from

Some advice

Remember that the photo that you send me to work from is a substitute for that subject actually sitting in front of me, which is of course how a portrait would traditionally have been made. So, I need something that's relatively clear and close-up like the photos you see to the left. Pictures taken on a phone are nearly always to pixillated to work from.

If you have a favourite photograph that's suitable, then that's fine. However if none of your photos are that great, remember that if the portrait you want is of your own child or pet, then you can always take new ones! Do a little photo shoot with them in nice clear daylight. This will also give you the opportunity to dress them in whatever you like.

PHOTOGRAPHS OF MORE THAN ONE PERSON
I can sometimes 'compose' a portrait from more than one photograph, but it's much better if the photo was taken of all of the subjects together, or at least at the same time so that the light and tones are similar like these two portraits.

Group portraits

If you have more questions about how to commission a portrait from photos, you can click the link to go to my website, or click here to email me.

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