GALLERY OIL PORTRAIT PORTFOLIO

Using a photographic image as the subject matter, opaque brush work results in the creation of a truly timeless full brush studio oil portrait. Furnish your own photographs or request photographic services for an additional fee and she will create a one of a kind original oil portrait destined to become a treasured family heirloom.

Mama's portrait was to become the trademarked symbol of the restaurant, but there was a problem. Only two photographs existed of Mama. One was from 1910 and the other was a tiny, blurry image from the 1960's of Mama wearing a hat. Mama needed to be aged to her 50's and to her 70's, as most of the family remembered her, and definitely NOT wearing a hat.

To create the needed portraits for Trademark Registration, Kathryn Rutherford enlarged the 1910 portrait of Mama to a 20x24 image. Then, using her knowledge of portraiture and how the human head mathmatically changes as it ages, she painted on top of the 1910 portrait to age the facial features throughout time.

A 1925 Magazine Cover provided the perfect dress for Mama as she would appear at that time in her early 50's. Her dress and sweater were more appropriate attire from the later photograph and what the family remembered her wearing most often.

Mama's trademarked portraits hangs throughout the Farmhouse Restaurant with a large convex glass oval portrait displayed in the lobby above an ornate fireplace and mantle.