Portrait Styles

McNeil Designer Portraits specializes in family wall portraits on canvas…

We offer the following 3 choices for completing your family wall portrait:

"The McNeil"

This is our very finest finish and combines the elements of The Classic and The Painterly to create this beautiful work of art.

By applying hand-painted oils over the photographic image on stretched canvas, your oil portrait will be a realistic interpretation created by Mr. McNeil of the photographic image selected by you. Our artists invest several weeks of additional effort, studying the original image, and hand-painting and modifying their creation to provide you with a personal art piece of exceptional beauty. The finished image is then sealed with multiple protective coatings of matte & finish lacquers.

Upon its completion and framing, your portrait as a piece of personal family art, will be worthy of display in a prominent location within your home or office.

The McNeil oil on canvas has become the Hallmark for us here at McNeil Designer Portraits and our most popular portrait to date.

"The Painterly"

The Painterly Portrait is created with the same care and handcrafting as "The McNeil".

In the digital realm our artist’s working with a stylus and pressure sensitive monitor add thousands of individually placed brush-strokes directly on the image. So, by adding these brush-strokes our artist's paint the image, just like on canvas, except it is in the computer.

The difference between the McNeil and the Painterly is that the texture in the Painterly is added in the computer whereas with the McNeil oils are added to the final print.  The final print in the Painterly style is then bonded to canvas (the same process as The Classic) and completed with a brush acrylic finish.

Samples of the Heelan Family and The Painterly style:

Close-up of The Painterly style:

"The Classic"

Using our patented 21-step process, your portrait is preserved on hand-crafted canvas specially designed for photographic purposes.

First the image is color analyzed from which a work print is made. Further corrections are made to the work print such as retouching, enhancing, cropping, density control, color saturation, dodging, burning and vignetting. The finished print is then made from these specifications.

From this final print, the emulsion is carefully stripped from the paper backing and, using heat and pressure, is bonded into the fibers of the artist’s canvas. From here the portrait is stretched over an artist’s stretcher frame. The image is then sent to our master craftsmen for print enhancement and final retouching. The finished image is then sprayed with multiple protective coatings of matte & finish lacquers. The image is then ready for framing and display.

Are you ready to have Craig McNeil create a memorable, one-of-a-kind portrait for your family?

Then give us a call today at 720-981-9705 to book your design consultation.

“We have never seen our boys photographed so beautifully.”

Every time we walk by our family portrait, we have to stare. It evokes an emotion. It is a moment in time that we wanted to preserve and cannot be replicated.    You chose the perfect location and time of day.  Despite our family’s uncontrolled laughter, we have never seen our boys photographed so beautifully. This portrait is an heirloom that our family will forever cherish. Thank you for making this experience a memorable one.

Sincerely,
The Najjar Family