{"id":4572,"date":"2015-02-21T13:56:42","date_gmt":"2015-02-21T13:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.katja-sauer.de\/?p=4572"},"modified":"2019-09-30T15:50:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T15:50:06","slug":"portrait-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.katja-sauer.de\/en\/portrait-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Portrait painting by Katja Sauer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Portrait\u00a0painting &#8211; a new challenge<\/h2>\n<p>Again and again I am asked if I offer also portrait painting on commission.<br \/>\nYes, now I finally dared me to the subject of portraiture. :-)<br \/>\nI am working on a children&#8217;s portrait. In contrast to animal drawings, portrait painting is a very different challenge for me.\u00a0Painting realistic skin is not easy and it it is\u00a0not comparable with\u00a0painting fur of animals.\u00a0Many subtle tones, shades and colour transitions make the task really challenging for artists of all levels.<br \/>\nIf I draw animals, I focus mainly on the eyes to reflect the character.\u00a0In portraiture a lot more factors play a role, such as eye shape, mouth shape, nose shape, etc.<\/p>\n<p>With my portrait painting, I am trying to create not only the pure representation of the respective people, but to capture the mood and character traits.<\/p>\n<p>Please feel free to\u00a0<a title=\"Contact\" href=\"https:\/\/www.katja-sauer.de\/en\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contact me<\/a>\u00a0if you want to commission a portrait painting.<br \/>\nYou can find a price list for portraits in the menu item <a title=\"Prices for commissioned works\" href=\"https:\/\/www.katja-sauer.de\/en\/prices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prices<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4566\" style=\"width: 535px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4566\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4566\" src=\"https:\/\/www.katja-sauer.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Kinderportrait-by-Katja-Sauer-1.jpg\" alt=\"Child portrait in progress - portrait painting in soft pastels and charcoal by Katja Sauer\" width=\"525\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.katja-sauer.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Kinderportrait-by-Katja-Sauer-1.jpg 525w, https:\/\/www.katja-sauer.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Kinderportrait-by-Katja-Sauer-1-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/www.katja-sauer.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Kinderportrait-by-Katja-Sauer-1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4566\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Child portrait in progress &#8211; portrait painting in soft pastels and charcoal by Katja Sauer<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portrait\u00a0painting &#8211; a new challenge Again and again I am asked if I offer also portrait painting on commission. Yes, now I finally dared me to the subject of portraiture. :-) I am working on a children&#8217;s portrait. In contrast to animal drawings, portrait painting is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.katja-sauer.de\/en\/portrait-painting\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"morelink-icon\">Read more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,230,231,214,215],"tags":[234,235,236,311,232,312,233],"class_list":["post-4572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gift-ideas","category-portrait-painting","category-portraiture","category-process-of-creating-a-painting","category-tutorials","tag-child-portrait","tag-children-portraits","tag-human-portraits","tag-portrait-painting","tag-portrait-paintings","tag-portraiture","tag-portraitures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katja-sauer.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katja-sauer.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katja-sauer.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katja-sauer.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katja-sauer.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4572"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.katja-sauer.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15510,"href":"https:\/\/www.katja-sauer.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4572\/revisions\/15510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katja-sauer.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katja-sauer.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katja-sauer.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katja-sauer.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}