Sep29
The Challenge of Commissions
2011Article posted by Gilly
As I’ve mentioned previously, this year I’ve taken on several commissions, so I thought it might be of interest to talk about the process of painting commissions as it is very different from just sitting at the easel and working on something purely for one’s own pleasure. To begin with, there is quite a bit of stress (for me, anyway) of trying to produce something to someone else’s specifications and for someone else’s vision, not to mention that the final painting must really please them.
I was very small when I began to draw so I can’t remember when it all started. I do remember that as a little girl my bedroom walls were covered in my drawings of horses and animals and that I wrote my own stories and illustrated them - I still have some of them today. 