Custom Owl Portraits - Bringing Your Story to Life
Each owl is a symbolic portrait - painted from your story, emotions, and inner landscape.
A quiet collaboration between your lived experience and my intuition as an artist.
This is one of my favorite types of commissions.
Each one feels like a journey into a new world.
Here, I explore personality through symbolism - using your favorite colors, dreams, memories, and the small things that bring you joy as references. This is not about turning someone into an owl in a literal way. It’s a deeper, more personal process: translating your unique inner landscape - the essence of what makes you you - into a symbolic portrait.
The owl is simply a vessel. A way to channel your inner world, your qualities, dreams, contradictions, and quirks.
Each portrait becomes a story told through color, pattern, and symbols - quietly woven between feathers.
We work on this piece together. I think of it as a collaboration between me, as an artist and storyteller, and you, as the subject, the main character of your own novel.
Once I begin working on the piece, we’ll have a more detailed conversation. I’ll ask you questions that help shape the concept and emotional direction of the painting. I create an initial sketch and a color palette, which we discuss and refine together. After that, I move into painting the original work.
These portraits can be deeply personal or created for someone close to your heart - a dear friend, a couple, or even a family. I’ve had the honor of painting all of these, and each story feels meaningful to hold and translate.
Paintings can be created on watercolor paper, wooden board, or on a page from an antique 150-year-old book I use for the #100daysofowlfeelings project.
I also offer guidance and support with framing, if needed.
Each painting is a singular piece. A unique story, waiting to be discovered.
Custom owl portraits are commissioned as deeply personal works of art - often to mark a transition, honor a relationship, or give shape to an inner chapter that feels ready to be seen. Each personalized owl painting is created as a one-of-a-kind original, guided by symbolism, intuition, and the stories you share.
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