Meet Bakhtawar Saeed and Samantha Swann – two awesome marketing interns from UNCC – who have added serious value to ART GALLERY ORIGINALS. So Bakhtawar and Sam, you have learned a lot about children’s oil portraits. “I didn’t know that children’s oil portraits was so popular in the South” – Samantha “I had a…
HAPPY NATIONAL SIBLINGS DAY! This week our nation celebrated National Siblings Day. Happily– through the commissions of children’s oil portraits, we at Art Gallery Originals are reminded of loving brother/sister relationships and every combination thereof, on a regular basis. In our fifteen years, we have worked with clients who wanted paintings with multiple subjects, an…
It was 15 years ago the ART GALLERY ORIGINALS received its first Children’s Oil Portrait commission. Actually, commissions — a sister and a brother: Since then, we have had over 1,000 Oil Portraits commissions and worked with clients nationwide. As these current photos of our first subjects attest—there has been change in the last 15…
Portraits, portraits portraits 2013 is off to a great start! Highlights of the first quarter include presenting “It’s Elementary: Art and Design,” a look at the elements of design as they relate to landscapes and portraits, to undergraduate interior design students at Meredith College in Raleigh, NC. Meredith’s design program is very strong both with…
Earlier in the week I presented “It’s Elementary: Art and Designers” to interior design students at the Art Institute of Raleigh- Durham. What a great space! The school is located in the repurposed American Tobacco Warehouses in Durham. And, what great students! Everyone enjoyed looking at the art slides: van Gogh, Dali, Hockney and Warhol. …