Painting, Drawing or Sketch From a Photo.

Post by: **AlfaLofa** » Sun Dec 21, 2014 12:03 pm

Can anyone recommend an artist (in the UK) who can take your favourite Elan photo and convert the photo into a half decent painting?

Post by: **mbell** » Sun Dec 21, 2014 12:27 pm

I can't and it probably not what you want but have you considered just having the photo printed on to a canvas.

Had one done for the now wife of a scenic view with good results (and very happy wife).

Post by: **Elanconvert** » Sun Dec 21, 2014 12:30 pm

hi steve
there is someone who advertises on ebay, but can't vouch for them or their work...
a good old friend of mine has a great reputation for doing paintings from pics, but he is very expensive\!!

fred

Post by: **TroonSprint** » Sun Dec 21, 2014 2:08 pm

We have a member in the Caledonian Centre of the MGCC who has done this in the past. I will email him and see if he is still able to do this and what he charges.

Mike

Post by: **AlfaLofa** » Sun Dec 21, 2014 2:21 pm

Thanks Mike

Post by: **tonyr27** » Sun Dec 21, 2014 2:47 pm

Have a word with Chris Duggan. His website is

http://www.christopherdugan.co.uk

Chris has always some nice Lotus prints for sale.

TonyR

Post by: **TroonSprint** » Mon Dec 22, 2014 11:14 am

Here we go. Chris Hastie (MGB and MGRV8 owner) lives in Stirling and is an artist by profession. He is very capable of painting your car in watercolours. He has a web site here: http://www.hohadesign.co.uk/ Give him a call and hopefully he willbe able to produce what you want.

Mike

Post by: **AlfaLofa** » Mon Dec 22, 2014 12:02 pm

How I wish I could draw and paint !!!

A good few hours must go into each piece of work - so a starting price of ?450 is probably reasonable - but I wonder what you get for that.

I don't know if I'll get in touch - but it has opened my eyes.

Post by: **Robbie693** » Mon Dec 22, 2014 3:41 pm

AlfaLofa wrote:
A good few hours must go into each piece of work - so a starting price of ?450 is probably reasonable - but I wonder what you get for that.

More like a few weeks. A lot of people are surprised how long it takes, especially the realistic style stuff. All my work is within the industry and I charge 25 quid an hour or thereabouts so you can imagine how that would mount up over 2-3 weeks work. There are folk who do purely commissioned works to the public and charge a lot less (I'm thinking those ads you see in magazines offering to paint your dog or whatever) and to be quite honest I don't see how they make a living...

Robbie

Post by: **AlfaLofa** » Mon Dec 22, 2014 4:11 pm

I was talking about actual time not elapsed time - so using ?25 per hour for the lowest price drawing he would take about 17 hours to produce the drawing - presumably spread over several days.

Post by: **theelanman** » Mon Dec 22, 2014 6:36 pm

I'm getting one done by Guy Allen

www.guyallen.co.uk/

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Post by: **AlfaLofa** » Mon Dec 22, 2014 7:02 pm

Thanks for the link elanman.

I like the style - can you give any indication of the cost?

Post by: **theelanman** » Tue Dec 23, 2014 4:25 pm

Erm.......no......

Mine's a present....

:-D

Post by: **AlfaLofa** » Tue Dec 23, 2014 4:36 pm

Great present !!!!!

Post by: **Spyder fan** » Tue Dec 23, 2014 7:14 pm

One way of doing it economically with surprisingly good results is to use photoshop: apply artistic filters: save file and send to a specialist poster printer to have printed the size you want to frame

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