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- 1) COMMISSION A PORTRAIT:   Celebrate the childhood of your kids,  mark a special occasion, a birthday, or an anniversary by offering to your loved ones - or yourself - the unique gift of a hand painted portrait! The first step is to choose a reference photograph. A single subject can be commissioned for as little as €  250.00! (Send an email asking for a quote). These portraits are always hand-painted.

Send an email (or snail mail) with the  photo of your loved ones and your beloved  pets, in order to commission a portrait. I advice you to not choose a reference photo that is flattering, but not very close to how the sitter looks like... Choose a photo that is clear and sharp, preferably with contrast between light and darkness, and has a strong likeness to the sitter, especially in the eyes - the seat of one's personality.

Each commissioned portrait is supplied with a complementary greetings card featuring the portrait. Further copies can be ordered. These commission cards can be used for any occasion from invitations to general correspondence, and personalized stationery. In addition, other products such as key rings, fridge magnets, mugs, notebooks, posters can be ordered featuring your commission. Completion time for prints vary (from 1 – 3 weeks)

(Payments can now be made through PayPal as well) 

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Ancestral portraits.

A pictorial family history.

You can also send photos of your ancestors, (parents, grandparents, distant uncles etc). I can use these to create an image or a series of images, with their faces and figures, their place of origins, their ancestral city, symbols and objects related to them, or the time they have lived, poems or art pieces they loved, letters they have written, items they have used, etc etc. creating in this way a kind of history of your family or a kind of pictorial family tree if you like. These "Ancestral portraits" are a combination of digital and hand painted art.

Portraits of Stars & famous people.

Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood

Pope John Paul II & Dalai Lama

Bruce Springsteen

(detail of a bigger painting, click here to view)

Paul Newman

Hamphrey Bogard

Fred Astaire

Madonna

Laurel & Hardy

Laurel & Hardy

Fred Astaire

Marilyn Monroe

Fantasy Art Portraits

You may like to see yourself (or your loved ones) as the protagonist of a Fantasy Art  piece. For example wearing garments of a different era, a bygone or even a future time,  riding a horse or even a dragon, holding a symbolic object, or an animal, being part of a mythical story, a famous play or movie, or a sci-fi world etc etc. These portraits can be hand painted or digital.

Reference photographs:  As a rule, I work from photographs. When you are choosing the reference photograph, make sure that is reasonably large and as sharp and clear as possible. In the case of the Fantasy Art portraits, a clear, sharp and reasonably large photograph of the subject’s head is required, but also one that is posed in the same way as the final portrait. If for example I will be painting a portrait of you grasping a sword, I need a photograph of your actual hand, doing the same movement. I will add the details (sword, armor etc) myself.

 Completion time: Completion times can vary between 2 - 8 weeks depending on the complexity of the work or current workload, so always allow plenty of time if planning a birthday gift, etc. If you require completion more quickly, just ask - I may be able to help.

 Deposit: A non-refundable deposit of 50% is required before commencement of the work - the remaining balance being due on completion.

Approval/Delivery: Once completed, you will see the work and once you are satisfied, and the remaining balance has been received, the portrait will be dispatched to you by a secure method. If you are not satisfied with the result, I will keep the original and the non-refundable deposit, and you will not pay the remaining fee.

Copyright holder of all work created by her, is Fanitsa Petrou. The right is reserved to photograph all work for private portfolio and to use any unsold commissioned work for resale, exhibition, advertising, etc. Images of sold commissions will only be used for promotional purposes with the express permission of the purchasers.

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