Hello,
I am interested in hearing your thoughts on commissioning custom decorative paintings.
During the building planning phase, I have already received recommendations and offers to have my portrait or favorite place painted as an oil painting. These works are very high quality and distinctive, but also expensive. However, I would also like to have my own images turned into paintings to hang on the walls, instead of IKEA posters. Therefore, I would like to hear your opinions:
What do you think about this? Does anyone have experience with it?
Best regards,
Yqsquare
I am interested in hearing your thoughts on commissioning custom decorative paintings.
During the building planning phase, I have already received recommendations and offers to have my portrait or favorite place painted as an oil painting. These works are very high quality and distinctive, but also expensive. However, I would also like to have my own images turned into paintings to hang on the walls, instead of IKEA posters. Therefore, I would like to hear your opinions:
What do you think about this? Does anyone have experience with it?
Best regards,
Yqsquare
ypg schrieb:
Commission a custom painting? If I weren’t painting myself, I probably wouldn’t consider that much as an option. Because when I look at a painting, it has to really grab me. I need to like it a lot. Once, I bought one for 150€ (about $160) in Berlin from an artist at a market. I still like that painting. Our bathroom picture (posted here before) only cost 30€ (about $32). Besides, I wouldn’t spend much more than 200 euros (about $215) on wall decoration.
Portraits in living areas: I don’t like them. Not even above the bed. Thanks for your reply! You’re right, style is important; it won’t help if the painting doesn’t move me emotionally. Plus, it also has to fit with the furniture and everything else.
SumsumBiene8 Oct 2021 14:47I personally find self-portraits a bit "narcissistic." If at all, only in connection with a partner, child, or other two-legged or four-legged companions.
Oil paintings feel too "heavy" for me. I prefer drawings or watercolor paintings. I have commissioned such a picture twice (a horse family) and am now considering having our deceased dog painted as well. The cost would be around 300 euros for a chalk drawing, which is quite pricey. But there is a lot of work involved.
For the watercolor portraits, I paid roughly 70 euros.
Oil paintings feel too "heavy" for me. I prefer drawings or watercolor paintings. I have commissioned such a picture twice (a horse family) and am now considering having our deceased dog painted as well. The cost would be around 300 euros for a chalk drawing, which is quite pricey. But there is a lot of work involved.
For the watercolor portraits, I paid roughly 70 euros.
Nude paintings don’t belong in the bedroom, and a 40 x 50cm (16 x 20 inches) gentle goddess doesn’t fit anywhere at all. Nude and miniature together is an extremely tacky combination.
I hope they are all the same size, so you can rotate them regularly.
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Tolentino schrieb:
I have experience with acrylic paintings (1.5 x 1m (59 x 39 inches)). I own three of them. I had space for them in my old apartment, but not in my current one, and my wife doesn’t like them either. I’ll have to see if I can hang one in the house.
I hope they are all the same size, so you can rotate them regularly.
https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bauen-jetzt/
SumsumBiene8 Oct 2021 15:4611ant schrieb:
Nude paintings don’t belong in the bedroom, and a 40 x 50 cm (16 x 20 inch) depiction of a benevolent goddess doesn’t belong anywhere at all. Nude art combined with miniatures is an extremely tacky mix.
I hope they’re the same size so you can rotate them regularly. I’ve seen this kind of thing exactly three times among friends or acquaintances (meaning nude self-portraits). I was given a tour to admire the new apartment, which naturally included the bedroom. No, I’m not prude, but there are things I simply don’t want to know about friends.
I guess children feel something similar when they realize their parents do more than just hold hands :p
SumsumBiene schrieb:
No, I’m not prudish, but there are things I simply don’t want to know about friends.Firstly, oil paintings are not photographs, so the term “know” would already be inappropriate. Secondly, nude portraits of living contemporaries are even more out of place than small-scale ones, and naturally it’s the height of inappropriateness if they depict the homeowners themselves (except, of course, in your case—as I just received the email—if it were the homeowners from 1900).https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
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