Portraits
The people and moments you carry with you.
Some moments become markers in our lives.
The beginning of a marriage. The quiet days after bringing a child home. A family gathered together. Someone whose expression, presence, or memory you want to hold onto.
I create original painted portraits from photographs, personal references, and the stories surrounding them.
Each painting looks beyond likeness alone. Light, gesture, landscape, atmosphere, color, and small details help preserve something of what it felt like to be there.
Portrait commission bookings are now open for 2026 - 2027.
More Than A Photograph.
An Heirloom Made From Your Story
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There is a particular tenderness to the beginning.
An engagement portrait preserves the season when you were standing between the life you knew and the life you were preparing to build together.
Your painting may begin with a proposal, an engagement photograph, a meaningful destination, or simply an image that feels like the two of you.
I can incorporate subtle details from the place where your story unfolded, allowing the portrait to hold more than a likeness. It can hold a sense of where you were and who you were becoming.
Perfect for: proposals, engagement photographs, anniversary gifts, wedding gifts, and heirlooms for your future home.
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You spend months, sometimes more than a year, planning a wedding.
The flowers are eventually taken down. The cake is eaten. The music stops. The dress is carefully stored away. Hundreds of photographs begin their quiet life inside a digital folder.
The day remains important, even as its smallest details become harder to recall.
A wedding portrait gives one of those moments a physical presence.
Perhaps it is the first look. The walk back down the aisle. A quiet exchange during the reception. The two of you standing beneath a landscape that became part of your story.
Together, we choose the photograph and details that feel most like the day you remember.
From there, I create an original painting intended to live with you through the years that follow.
Perfect for: wedding portraits, bridal portraits, first anniversaries, milestone anniversaries, gifts from parents, and family heirlooms.
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They will never be quite this small again.
The first weeks with a new baby are filled with details that feel ordinary while you are living them. Tiny fingers wrapped around yours. A sleeping face. A familiar blanket. The way they fit against your chest.
Then they grow.
A newborn portrait preserves something photographs sometimes struggle to hold: the softness of this brief season.
Your painting can be created from a professional newborn session or a photograph taken quietly at home. Together, we can choose the image, colors, and details that best reflect the memory you want to carry forward.
Created for the nursery today and perhaps their own home many years from now.
Perfect for: newborn portraits, adoption celebrations, first birthdays, Mother's Day, Father's Day, and gifts for new parents or grandparents.
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A portrait does not always need an occasion.
Sometimes a particular season of someone's life deserves to be remembered simply because it existed.
Individual portraits are created as thoughtful studies of a person, considering expression, posture, atmosphere, color, and the quieter details that make someone recognizable beyond their physical features.
These may be portraits of yourself, your child, a parent, a grandparent, or someone whose presence has shaped your life.
They can mark a milestone or simply preserve who someone is right now.
Perfect for: personal portraits, children, graduations, milestone birthdays, parents, grandparents, and meaningful gifts.
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Some portraits begin with someone we can no longer sit beside.
A memorial portrait is created with particular care.
I work from the photographs you have, including older or imperfect images when necessary, and learn about the person behind them. Their expression. Their character. The places they loved. The colors you associate with them. The small details that immediately bring them to mind.
When appropriate, elements from several photographs can be thoughtfully brought together to create a portrait that could not have existed as a single photograph.
Legacy portraits can also be commissioned during someone's lifetime.
A parent. A grandparent. A family matriarch or patriarch. Someone whose story deserves to remain visible for the generations that follow.
These paintings are intended to become part of a family's visual history.
Perfect for: memorials, celebration-of-life pieces, parents and grandparents, generational gifts, family homes, and legacy collections.
Portfolio
CLR Creations accepts a limited number of portrait commissions each year, specializing in engagements, weddings, newborns, and family milestones.
Each portrait is individually painted from your photographs and developed through conversation and artistic interpretation. Rather than simply reproducing a photograph, the goal is to preserve the people, atmosphere, setting, and details that make the moment meaningful.
Engagement & Wedding Portraits: Transform a favorite photograph into an original painting. Portraits may focus closely on the couple or incorporate the landscape, architecture, florals, light, and other details surrounding the day.
Newborn & Family Portraits: Preserve a fleeting season through an intimate portrait of a newborn, child, or family. These works are created as contemporary heirlooms intended to remain within the family for generations.
Materials
Choose from:
Archival Oil Paper: An intimate, heavyweight oil-painting surface intended for professional framing.
Archival ACM Panel: A smooth, rigid and highly stable surface with a contemporary presentation.
Oil-Primed Linen: A traditional fine-art surface with subtle texture, particularly suited to portraiture and expressive brushwork.
Birchwood Panel: A substantial rigid surface with a warm, tactile character.
Oil or acrylic paint is selected according to the surface and desired character of the painting. Available materials vary by size.
Sizes
Small: 9" × 12" to 11" × 14"
Newborns, single subjects, and intimate compositions.
Medium: 12" × 18" to 18" × 24"
Couples, parent and child, and portraits incorporating more of the setting.
Large: 24" × 30" to 30" × 40"
Wedding, family, and statement portraits.
Gallery: 36" × 36"+
Large-scale heirloom and portrait-landscape compositions.
Pricing & Consultation
The listed price reflects a 50% deposit toward your commission. Final pricing is based on the selected size, material, and composition and will be confirmed during your consultation before the commission agreement is signed.
Multiple subjects, complex settings, extensive detail, specialty materials, or significant reconstruction from several photographs may require an additional fee.
Any adjustment is discussed and approved before your commission agreement is signed and before painting begins. You may approve the revised price, adjust the concept to remain within your original budget, or request a refund before signing the agreement.
How It Works
1. Reserve — Select your size, material, and payment option.
2. Share — Send several high-resolution photographs and tell me about the people and moment you would like preserved.
3. Consult — Within 24–48 hours, I will reach out to begin the collaboration process. We will discuss setting, color, atmosphere, materials, and meaningful details.
4. Approve — I’ll confirm the final scope, price, and timeline. Your commission begins after the agreement is signed.
5. Create — Your portrait is painted individually by hand, with progress images shared at key stages.
6. Deliver — Once complete and sufficiently cured, your painting is carefully prepared for delivery.
Timeline
Allow approximately 10–12 weeks from signing the commission agreement, including approximately 10–12 weeks for painting and 2–8 business days for shipping.
Oil paintings may require additional drying time. Larger or more complex commissions may require longer. For weddings, anniversaries, holidays, or other time-sensitive gifts, please reserve early.
Photography
Clients are responsible for providing photographs they own or have permission to use. Professional wedding, engagement, or newborn photography may require permission from the photographer.
Shipping
Small and medium works are generally shipped flat and protected. Large works may require custom crating, freight, white-glove delivery, or installation. Additional delivery costs are quoted when applicable.
Commission Policy
Because each portrait is made specifically for you, commissions cannot be returned or exchanged once the agreement has been signed and painting has begun.
Before signing, you may adjust the scope, approve any price adjustment, or request a refund.
Reserve Your Portrait
Engagements become anniversaries. Wedding days become family histories. Newborns carry on legacies.
Transform a meaningful photograph into an original painting created by hand and made to remain within your family for generations.
Frame not included. Shipping, specialty crating, and installation may be quoted separately when applicable.
Reserve Your Commission
A hand-painted heirloom created from your photographs and memories.
CLR Creations accepts a limited number of engagement, wedding, newborn, individual, family, and legacy portrait commissions each year.
Every portrait is 100% painted by hand using professional oil or acrylic paints and archival-quality materials. Your photographs provide the visual foundation, while our conversations bring forward the people, places, atmosphere, and details that make the moment meaningful. Together, we consider composition, setting, palette, and the elements you want preserved, allowing the finished work to become an artist’s interpretation rather than simply a reproduction of a photograph.
Portraits are available on archival oil paper, ACM panel, oil-primed linen, or birchwood panel, from intimate 9" × 12" works to gallery-scale paintings 36" × 36" and larger. Learn more about materials and sizes.
Your reservation is a 50% deposit toward the base commission price and secures your place on the studio calendar. Final scope and pricing are confirmed during your consultation before the commission agreement is signed and painting begins.
Please allow approximately 10–12 weeks from signing to completion, with additional time possible for larger or more complex works and oil paintings requiring extended drying or curing.
Created individually and slowly by hand, each portrait is intended to become an original heirloom, preserving a meaningful chapter of your life in paint for the generations that follow.
Some of the most meaningful gifts begin with a memory someone already treasures.
A commissioned portrait can mark a wedding, anniversary, new baby, milestone birthday, Mother's Day, Father's Day, or remembrance of someone deeply loved. Created from photographs and the stories you share with me, each painting becomes a one-of-a-kind heirloom made specifically for the person receiving it.
A portrait is deeply personal because it cannot be chosen from a shelf or duplicated. It preserves a person, relationship, or season of life that already carries meaning for the recipient. Hand-painted with archival-quality materials, it is also a gift designed for longevity, something that can become part of a home, move with a family through different chapters, and eventually be passed from one generation to the next.
Rather than giving something for the occasion alone, you are giving a lasting piece of the story behind it.