Live Portrait Sittings

If you're local to the Portland, OR Metro Area, you can book a live portrait painting session at my home studio. My in-person portraits are small head-and-shoulders oil paintings made on 8x8 inch panels.

Timeline

My schedule is open most weekday mornings (weekend availability is rare, but possible, please email me). Each piece is started during an in-person painting session, and finished afterwards based on a photo from the sitting. The sessions are: 1 hour for kids (ages 6-12), 2 hours for adults, 3 hours for couples. The painting takes about 1 week to dry, before it's ready for pickup or to ship.

Cost & Payment

Kids: $300
Adults: $400
Pairs: $800

A non-refundable $30 deposit is required to schedule the booking, which goes towards purchasing the materials for your painting. If for any reason you can't make it to the sitting, you can re-schedule at anytime. The remainder of the payment is due at the end of your sitting.

A live portrait sitting in progress: the artist painting at a small pochade easel while her sitter poses in an armchair across the room.
A finished live-sitting portrait: a dark-haired woman in a rust top against a pale ground, painted in warm oranges and cool greys with visible brushwork.
A sitter holding her finished portrait — a small square oil painting on panel, roughly the size of two hands.
The sitting set-up in the artist's home studio: a chair for the sitter, a wooden stool and a portable easel on a light wood floor.