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

So feel free to contact Victoria, to discuss initial ideas for a Commissioned Painting, Portrait Drawing or Painting for which there is no fee. A Portrait may be in memory of a special person or or to celebrate a birthday, or event. Equally a Commission may be of a Still Life of special objects, view of a house, or well loved landscape.

The fee for a Drawing starts from £150 for a Head/Shoulders in graphite or pastel, completed in approx 1/2 weeks. An Oil Portraits requires more time allowing for oil paint layers to fully dry, with the fee starting from £1,500.

Victoria’s Portraits ‘hold life’ beyond a mere photograph, and can last decades with the finest paint materials being used. A few sittings are needed to agree the overall composition/plus photographs of the sitter, to help capture both an obvious likeness and unique character of the sitter.

Originally Fresco painting was first established in Roman times where an image is painted directly into wet plaster, left to dry and completed in sections; Botticelli’s Birth of Venus / or Michaelangelo’s Sistine Chapel are examples of this.

However painting Methods and techniques changed when oil paint became more readily available together with the use of wood panels, oak or walnut, prepared with a light ground. This was followed by the use of linen stretched across a simple wooden frame and different paint mediums poppy, walnut, or linseed oil then used.

The main aim is to lock the glazing of oil paint applied in layers within the medium when fully dry, which offers a luminosity and brilliance of colour.

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