PRICES 2010

Adult Portraiture
Oils from £3800
Charcoals/ Drawings from £1500

Child Portraiture
Oils from £2500
Charcoals/ Drawings from £900

Group Portraiture
Oils and charcoal drawings priced on application

Military Portraiture and Scenes
Oils and charcoal drawings priced on application

Telephone
Studio : +44 (0) 20 7376 3925
Mobile: +44 (0) 7702 177 064

Email
portraits@arabelladorman.com

In order to achieve the greatest sense of vitality and psychology within a work, Arabella paints directly from life. In adherence to the British School of portraiture, she uses the traditional 'sight-size' method by which she places canvas and sitter side by side, whilst standing back herself several paces between each brushstroke. This technique enables the artist to view both sitter and painting to scale from a distance, thus giving an overall unified focus to the work, with a breadth of handling and looseness of brushwork associated with the past masters of sight-size, such as Sargent and Raeburn.

Arabella needs a minimum of 4 sittings (3 hours each) for an oil painting and 2 for a drawing. Larger compositions may require further sittings. Generally Arabella prefers to work in her studio, Chelsea, London, however she is also happy to travel to the sitters home, either locally or abroad, though additonal expenses will apply. It is usually necessary to book portraits ahead although where there is an urgent deadline every effort will be made to help.

After four sittings

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