Commissioning My Father's Portrait Taught Me What Oil Portrait Artists Actually Do
Looking back, most of what separates memorable oil portrait artists from forgettable ones has nothing to do with talent in the abstract. It has to do with whether they insist on starting from something real.Cost came up honestly, more than once, during the ****. It landed somewhere between a nice frame and cons****erably more than that, depending entirely on size and finish. Once I understood what the price actually covered, materials built to last decades rather than years, hours of hand work nobody would ever see directly, it stopped ****ling like an indulgence and started ****ling like the obvious choice.
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