Sunday, March 6, 2011

Well, here we go!

 
 Dara
Oil on Canvas, 2010


Here is the beginning of my blog.  Let me introduce myself.  I am Paul Morin, a San Francisco-based portrait artist.  My work is currently on 5 continents and in the White House collection.  I paint portraits, figures and landscapes and am available for commissions.  My style is very "old master" with a modern sensibility -- I start with a complete underpainting and then add glazes and scumbles in local color.  I feel that my work is timeless and won't look dated in 5 years like so much of what is being produced right now.

In this blog, I hope to be able to give you a look inside  the process of creating a portrait and my reasons for being a portrait artist.  Commissioning a portrait is something that is a bit scary -- you pay a lot of money to someone you may not know very well and hope you will get something in return that looks like you and captures your spirit .  In these postings, I plan to de-mystify the process and hopefully help you understand what an amazing and gratifying experience the whole process is!  At the end of the process, you are left with a small piece of immortality that you are able to hand down to future generations!

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