Victoria Anne King incorporates the Methods and Techniques of Renaissance Master Artists in her paintings, regularly completing a variety of commissions.

Victoria King is able to discuss your ideas for a Commission with the associated costs, without a fee. Commissions may be either a Portrait, oil Painting or Drawing in pastel or graphite.

A Portrait may aim to capture and hold the memory of someone special, or to celebrate a specific birthday or event. Equally a Commission may be a Still Life of very special objects, a view of a house, or well loved landscape.

The uniqueness of an oil painting is without dispute,as it is able to hold an image across years, against photograhs which often fade or discolour

The use of very high quality materials maintains the ability to hold the qualities of the subject matter to an unsurpassed level of sensitivity. Portraits require only a few sittings and are completed in conjunction with drawings and reference photographs.

Painting Methods and techniques changed when oil paint became more readily available together with the use of wood panels, made of oak or walnut, prepared with a light gesso ground. (This was followed by the general use of linen stretched across a simple wooden frame eith different paint mediums. poppy, walnut or linseed oil)..The main aim is to lock layers of oil paint applied in layers. within the medium. which when fully dry offers a luminosity and brilliance of colour.

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