Painting titled "Custom portrait - s…" by Mateja Marinko, Original Artwork, Pastel

Custom portrait - soft pastel on velour (2020) Painting by Mateja Marinko

Original

Sold

See more from Mateja Marinko

The artist offers works on commission

Did you miss the opportunity to buy this work? Good news: the artist can also create a custom work, just for you!

Seller Mateja Marinko

Original Artwork (One Of A Kind) Painting, Pastel on Fabric

Artworks classification

One of a kind (OOAK / Original Artwork)

One-of-a-kind works of art are also known as “OOAK” artworks. This means that every work of art is unique and there will never be another identical one.
Dimensions Height 6.3in, Width 4.7in
Framing This artwork is not framed
Categories Paintings under $500 Illustration

Custom pencil portrait is a priceless remembrance gift and beautiful Family portrait for Home Gallery.

Portrait size: 12" x 16" (30 cm x 40 cm)
If you would like another size please contact me.

HOW TO ORDER:
Please send me a clear photo of the person you want me to paint.
It will take 5-7 days to complete the portrait, depending on the size and number of people. Each additional person is only 40% of the base price.

When the pencil portrait is completed, I will send you e-mail with a digital photo of a painting for you to check. Any corrections or adjustments you might require will be made at this time.

Your happiness is very important, and I want to make sure you’ll love your portrait before shipping.

SHIPPING:
Finished pencil custom art will be sprayed with a light protective fixative to ensure its safety and long life. After that your drawing will ship out within 2 business days with Priority Mail.

If you have any additional question please contact me.

Thank you for visiting my shop!

About this artwork: Classification, Techniques & Styles

Painting Pastel

Pastel is an instrument widely used in plastic arts. Taking the form of a colored plastic stick, it is composed of pigments, a filler (chalk or plaster) and a binder (gum arabic, oil, wax). We mainly distinguish fatty pastels (oil or wax), dry pastels, whether soft or hard. Invented in Europe at the end of the 15th century, this tool was very quickly used by great portrait painters of French royalty, such as Charles Le Brun, Rosalba Carriera, Jean Siméon Chardin or Maurice Quentin de La Tour, who will be considered the "Prince of pastellists", thanks to a method of fixation of which only he knew the secret.

Pastel

Drawing made with a colored stick. It consists of pigments, a charge and a binder. A distinction is made between dry pastels (soft or hard) and fatty pastels (oil or wax).

Technic Painting

Painting is an art form of painting on a surface by aesthetically applying colored fluids. Painters represent a very personal expression on supports such as paper, rock, canvas, wood, bark, glass, concrete and many other substrates. Work of representation or invention, painting can be naturalistic and figurative, or abstract. It can have narrative, descriptive, symbolic, spiritual, or philosophical content.

Mateja Marinko

Slovenia

I am Mateja and I come from small European country Slovenia. I live in small village with my husband and four beautiful children and our dog. Since I was a little girl I loved art, but I have never found[...]