Custom Father and Son Paintings from Photo

Father and Son Portraits in Oil on Canvas

Not every picture is worth being published as just another picture in a dusty old album. Some images are too valuable, too important, too vital to permit them to drift into oblivion. When a father and son share a moment – whether on a first fishing trip, a quiet afternoon in the yard, or hearty laughs that need no comment – this moment should be immortalized. This is what makes the father-and-son paintings so widely popular in homes across America. The artists at Portraithy are professional artists who take your everyday photos and paint them by hand in oil on canvas, creating valuable artworks that tell the story of a relationship, comment on the beauty of friendship, and make heirlooms to be passed down to descendants in the family.

What is the difference between a father and son painting and a photo on your wall? A photo records a moment. But an oil painting has breath. It has life. Each stroke of the brush, each finger, and each tone bring to view the significance of affection, history, and invisible ties that make up the personality. As an artist works on an oil painting on canvas, he is not merely copying the shapes and lines of the face; he is working with the feelings and putting them into pigment and texture. The technique brings a depth of color and warmth that oil paint is known for. The light plays on the painting a new light every time you look at it. The painting develops in your consciousness, becoming closer each succeeding year. This naturally explains why collectors term oil portraits investments in memory, in legacy, in love itself.

Dad and Son Painting – Unique and Personal Gift

The painting of a custom oil portrait is a highly personal matter. It begins when you share your photos with the skilled artists of Portraithy. They do not paint the things as they see them. They look for the story pictured. Is it an endearing moment between a little boy and his father? Is it a potent representation of two men bonded by tradition and experience? Are composition, lighting and the emotional impact of the picture taken into account? It is this individual attention that separates professional father-and-son portraits from those reproduced in mass quantities. Each painting is unique because each relationship is different. After you approve the composition, the artist paints your portrait in oil: true to your photo, with the soul of a painting. It arrives in about 4 to 5 weeks, or 3 to 4 weeks with express.

Why do families select oil paintings over other forms of pictures? Because of their permanence and originality. Printed photos can lose their brightness over time, while an oil painting on canvas is a lasting heirloom, passed down for generations. It becomes more beautiful with age, acquiring that patina which signifies decades spent in a beloved home. The art historian will look upon portraits painted 300 years ago with the same degree of vision and vibrancy they possessed centuries ago. The Dad and Son portrait you obtain will also prove very striking to your grandchildren when they come to receive it.

Painting of Father and Son – The Path to Adulthood

The subjects for these portraits vary greatly. Some families order Dad-and-Son portraits showing a father and his little boy – the helplessness of childhood combined with the strong, protective power of a father. This depicts a certain age or time, it is the time when it becomes the boy’s privilege to take “dad’s” hand, and the world seems safe with mother about. Among other patrons are those who desire to hand down portraits of the grown son sitting beside his father. This has an entirely different significance. Two men, products as it were of time and experience, stand together as men, both of equal consideration, but the tie of parent and son exists. The value of these portraits lies in their truth — in the companionship, true through love for each other, in the form of physical presence, intellectual community of interests, and priceless friendship and comradeship over the years.

Many Dad-and-Son portraits are built around shared interests. A hunting picture shows the father and son in their own field of effectiveness, where conspicuously are the streams, the hunting land, and the guns, where one can analyze the look of concentration, determination and vehemency upon their face as they engage in a pastime much favored in their respective generations. A fishing picture shows you something further back in it, in the form of two shadows right at the water’s edge, all the possibilities and promises of adventure embedded therein, the mere fact of their being there making evident the loveliness of leisure whenever and wherever it is given the opportunity. Golf, camping, and working on the car are equally worthy subjects to immortalize in oil. These are not depicted as laborious undertakings, but merely as pictures of relationship, of implied conversations between the two who understand each other.

Here is also an opportunity, in the form of a commission for a custom portrait, to combine many pictures into one representation. You should show in various poses and positions in life a son with the father. You want to present impressions of events at key epochs in their history in a compact representation that has depth, unity, and purpose, which the onlooker would appreciate. Portraithy artists can do this for you. It is a one-of-a-kind piece, made individually for you.