Custom Portrait Commission | Engagements, Weddings & Newborns [Frame Not Included]
A hand-painted heirloom created from your photographs and memories
Hand painted by CLR Creations. 100% GENUINE HAND-PAINTED ART.
Every portrait begins on a blank surface and is painted by hand using professional oil or acrylic paints. No printing, digital painting, or photocopying process is used in the finished artwork.
Created with archival-quality materials, each portrait is intended to become more than a record of how someone looked at a particular moment. It is an heirloom that preserves the people, relationships, places, and seasons of life we carry with us.
CLR Creations accepts a limited number of portrait commissions each year, with a special focus on engagements, weddings, and newborns.
Engagement Portraits
Preserve the beginning of a shared chapter through a painting inspired by your engagement photographs. The setting can become an important part of the composition, allowing the landscape, architecture, season, light, and atmosphere surrounding the proposal to remain part of the story.
Wedding Portraits
Transform a favorite wedding photograph into an original painting created to live beyond the wedding album. Portraits may focus closely on the couple or incorporate the landscape and details surrounding the day, from mountain ranges and coastal horizons to gardens, historic architecture, florals, and evening skies.
Newborn & Family Portraits
The earliest days of a child's life pass quietly and quickly. Newborn portraits preserve this fleeting season through soft color, intimate details, and thoughtful observation. These paintings can celebrate a newborn individually or include parents and siblings, creating an heirloom intended to remain within the family for generations.
Portraiture is closely connected to the larger themes within my work: memory, identity, place, experience, and the passage of time.
I am interested in the details that make a memory feel alive. The way evening light settled across a wedding landscape. The expression exchanged between two people. The folds of a dress. A newborn's tiny hands. Flowers carried down an aisle. The colors of the sky. The place where an important chapter began.
Your photographs provide the visual reference, while our conversations help me understand the story behind them.
Throughout the process, you are invited into key moments of collaboration. We will discuss your preferred photographs, composition, setting, color palette, mood, and the details that feel most important to preserve. Reference images and progress updates help guide the painting while leaving room for artistic interpretation and the natural character of the materials.
The finished work is not intended to simply reproduce a photograph. It is an artist's interpretation of a memory, created slowly and individually by hand.
Choose from:
Cotton Canvas
Linen Canvas
Birchwood Panel
Oil or acrylic paint will be selected according to the desired surface, style, and character of the commission. All paintings are created using quality archival materials intended for long-term preservation.
Small: 9" × 12" to 11" × 14"
Ideal for newborn portraits, intimate compositions, and single-subject portraits.
Medium: 12" × 18" to 18" × 24"
Well suited for engagement portraits, couples, newborns with parents, and compositions incorporating more of the surrounding environment.
Large: 24" × 30" to 30" × 40"
Designed for statement wedding portraits, family compositions, and paintings where the surrounding landscape plays an important role.
Gallery: 36" × 36" or larger
Created for large-scale heirloom portraits and expansive compositions integrating portraiture and landscape.
Select your preferred portrait size and surface, add your personalization, and place your order.
Send a selection of high-resolution photographs from your engagement, wedding, newborn session, or other meaningful occasion. Whenever possible, include several photographs so I can understand the subjects, setting, light, and details of the day.
Within 24–48 hours, I will reach out to begin the collaboration process. We will discuss the story behind the portrait, your preferred composition, colors, atmosphere, and any details you would especially like included.
Once the direction of the painting is established, I will begin creating your portrait by hand. Progress images will be shared at key stages before the work is completed.
Once finished, the painting will be carefully prepared and shipped to you.
Each commission takes approximately 6–8 weeks from execution to delivery.
Painting Time: Approximately 6–7 weeks
Shipping Time: Approximately 2–8 business days
Oil paintings may require additional drying or curing time before they can safely be varnished, packaged, or shipped.
Timelines may also vary according to the size, number of subjects, complexity of the setting, material selection, and overall scope of the commission. If the portrait is intended as an anniversary, wedding, holiday, or other time-sensitive gift, please reserve your commission as early as possible.
Delivery methods are determined by surface type, painting size, and destination to ensure the artwork arrives safely and in optimal condition.
Small and medium portraits are generally shipped flat and fully protected. Larger flexible works on linen or cotton canvas may be shipped rolled when scale or destination requires it, with final stretching completed by a professional framer upon arrival.
Paintings on birchwood panel are shipped flat with rigid protection. Large-scale works may require custom crating, freight shipping, white-glove delivery, or coordinated installation.
Each delivery method is selected according to the individual artwork and conservation needs of the piece.
Clients are responsible for providing photographs they own or have permission to use as reference material. For professional engagement, wedding, or newborn photography, permission from the photographer may be required before the image can be translated into a commissioned painting.
CLR Creations can work with multiple reference photographs when appropriate to develop the final composition.
Because every portrait is created specifically for you, made-to-order commissions do not accept returns or exchanges.
Collaboration is an important part of my commission process. I want to understand the people, memories, and details you are trusting me to preserve before the painting begins. If you have questions about photographs, sizing, materials, composition, or the commission process, please contact me before ordering.
Engagements become anniversaries. Wedding days become family histories. Newborns grow into lives of their own. A portrait captures that moment forever.
Reserve a CLR Creations portrait commission for your engagement, wedding, or newborn and transform a meaningful photograph into an original work of art created to be carried through generations.
[Frame not included]
Custom Portrait Commission | Engagements, Weddings & Newborns [Frame Not Included]
A hand-painted heirloom created from your photographs and memories
Hand painted by CLR Creations. 100% GENUINE HAND-PAINTED ART.
Every portrait begins on a blank surface and is painted by hand using professional oil or acrylic paints. No printing, digital painting, or photocopying process is used in the finished artwork.
Created with archival-quality materials, each portrait is intended to become more than a record of how someone looked at a particular moment. It is an heirloom that preserves the people, relationships, places, and seasons of life we carry with us.
CLR Creations accepts a limited number of portrait commissions each year, with a special focus on engagements, weddings, and newborns.
Engagement Portraits
Preserve the beginning of a shared chapter through a painting inspired by your engagement photographs. The setting can become an important part of the composition, allowing the landscape, architecture, season, light, and atmosphere surrounding the proposal to remain part of the story.
Wedding Portraits
Transform a favorite wedding photograph into an original painting created to live beyond the wedding album. Portraits may focus closely on the couple or incorporate the landscape and details surrounding the day, from mountain ranges and coastal horizons to gardens, historic architecture, florals, and evening skies.
Newborn & Family Portraits
The earliest days of a child's life pass quietly and quickly. Newborn portraits preserve this fleeting season through soft color, intimate details, and thoughtful observation. These paintings can celebrate a newborn individually or include parents and siblings, creating an heirloom intended to remain within the family for generations.
Portraiture is closely connected to the larger themes within my work: memory, identity, place, experience, and the passage of time.
I am interested in the details that make a memory feel alive. The way evening light settled across a wedding landscape. The expression exchanged between two people. The folds of a dress. A newborn's tiny hands. Flowers carried down an aisle. The colors of the sky. The place where an important chapter began.
Your photographs provide the visual reference, while our conversations help me understand the story behind them.
Throughout the process, you are invited into key moments of collaboration. We will discuss your preferred photographs, composition, setting, color palette, mood, and the details that feel most important to preserve. Reference images and progress updates help guide the painting while leaving room for artistic interpretation and the natural character of the materials.
The finished work is not intended to simply reproduce a photograph. It is an artist's interpretation of a memory, created slowly and individually by hand.
Choose from:
Cotton Canvas
Linen Canvas
Birchwood Panel
Oil or acrylic paint will be selected according to the desired surface, style, and character of the commission. All paintings are created using quality archival materials intended for long-term preservation.
Small: 9" × 12" to 11" × 14"
Ideal for newborn portraits, intimate compositions, and single-subject portraits.
Medium: 12" × 18" to 18" × 24"
Well suited for engagement portraits, couples, newborns with parents, and compositions incorporating more of the surrounding environment.
Large: 24" × 30" to 30" × 40"
Designed for statement wedding portraits, family compositions, and paintings where the surrounding landscape plays an important role.
Gallery: 36" × 36" or larger
Created for large-scale heirloom portraits and expansive compositions integrating portraiture and landscape.
Select your preferred portrait size and surface, add your personalization, and place your order.
Send a selection of high-resolution photographs from your engagement, wedding, newborn session, or other meaningful occasion. Whenever possible, include several photographs so I can understand the subjects, setting, light, and details of the day.
Within 24–48 hours, I will reach out to begin the collaboration process. We will discuss the story behind the portrait, your preferred composition, colors, atmosphere, and any details you would especially like included.
Once the direction of the painting is established, I will begin creating your portrait by hand. Progress images will be shared at key stages before the work is completed.
Once finished, the painting will be carefully prepared and shipped to you.
Each commission takes approximately 6–8 weeks from execution to delivery.
Painting Time: Approximately 6–7 weeks
Shipping Time: Approximately 2–8 business days
Oil paintings may require additional drying or curing time before they can safely be varnished, packaged, or shipped.
Timelines may also vary according to the size, number of subjects, complexity of the setting, material selection, and overall scope of the commission. If the portrait is intended as an anniversary, wedding, holiday, or other time-sensitive gift, please reserve your commission as early as possible.
Delivery methods are determined by surface type, painting size, and destination to ensure the artwork arrives safely and in optimal condition.
Small and medium portraits are generally shipped flat and fully protected. Larger flexible works on linen or cotton canvas may be shipped rolled when scale or destination requires it, with final stretching completed by a professional framer upon arrival.
Paintings on birchwood panel are shipped flat with rigid protection. Large-scale works may require custom crating, freight shipping, white-glove delivery, or coordinated installation.
Each delivery method is selected according to the individual artwork and conservation needs of the piece.
Clients are responsible for providing photographs they own or have permission to use as reference material. For professional engagement, wedding, or newborn photography, permission from the photographer may be required before the image can be translated into a commissioned painting.
CLR Creations can work with multiple reference photographs when appropriate to develop the final composition.
Because every portrait is created specifically for you, made-to-order commissions do not accept returns or exchanges.
Collaboration is an important part of my commission process. I want to understand the people, memories, and details you are trusting me to preserve before the painting begins. If you have questions about photographs, sizing, materials, composition, or the commission process, please contact me before ordering.
Engagements become anniversaries. Wedding days become family histories. Newborns grow into lives of their own. A portrait captures that moment forever.
Reserve a CLR Creations portrait commission for your engagement, wedding, or newborn and transform a meaningful photograph into an original work of art created to be carried through generations.
[Frame not included]
