A great way to reach potential clients is the opportunity to showcase our portraits at a business expo. Last Wednesday we did just that, at the Culver City Business Expo that took place at the Veteran’s building. Many visitors stopped at our booth and took part in our raffle to win a discounted painting or drawing. The winners were notified today, and I look forward to create a beautiful one-of-a-kind portrait for them!

During the event we offered quick 15 minute sketches, as you can witness below, making this event a very fun afternoon:

Small and powerful! By slowly adding soft layers to reach the level of detail in this graphite drawing, this one-year old toddler is looking right at you!

How lucky we are to be on the receiving end of the unconditional love of our pets! And isn’t it great that they, too can be eternalized in an original oil painting. Here are two samples of detailed “Realism” oil paintings that I created from photographs. Millie the Dog and Rama the Cat are both painted just a tad below life size. Notice the colors of Rama’s eyes – one is greener than the other, which is due to how the light hit Rama when this picture was taken. Other unusual colors can be detected in Rama’s portrait. And Millie’s face shows us she’s a real sweetheart!