Portrait painting tips Norman Brodeur Norman Brodeur is an oil painter

Portrait painting Norman Brodeur William Nichols
Norman Brodeur William Nichols is an oil painter vastly influenced by the Spanish arts. His love and specialty is the portraits, a genre in painting where the artist illustrate a person or an animal subject. Most portraitists presently create the portraits by commission, and it can be ordered for public consumption or private individuals, also can be done just by inspiration or affection for the subject. Historically, portraits are often remembrances for a family record, and have primarily memorialized the rich and powerful, especially in the times of kings and queens. Today, the portrait paintings are still generally made for the rich and powerful, as governments, corporations, groups and clubs, but are more and more being ordered by middle class individuals as a form of record and entering other areas of art, like tattoos.