She came into my gallery and workshop and looked around. She was amazed and coulld not believe the custom pop art for portraits and other goodies that filled the studio. Not tech savy at all she asked is I could go to her house on my way home pick up the picture and scan it at my studio so I could create a pop art masterpiece.

She seemed easy enough to deal with. Maybe a ted eccentric but im used to people like that, meet them all the time in my line of work.

She decides the realism abstract painting style of the picture of her children, grand children and their pets. Tried to sell her on doing a pet portrait but thats another story. Our abstract realism style combines both digital and oil paint. Sort of new technology with an old medium, which created a masterpiece. It was a nice bill as there were 14 people in the picture and 4 pets.

She was the ideal customer. She gave me her 50 percent deposit a few days after the scan, easy enough I thought. Usually customers who do kids portraits are the easiest. But who was i to judge.

My team of talented artist came up with a masterpiece. The custom portrait from photo was one of the best we had ever done. Everybody who we showed it to though the oil painting was amazing.

We scheduled a meeting at my office. She came in looked at it and thought all the people looked great but the pet images were off. I have a passion for pets and any pet portraits from photos we do are some of our best work. Oscar Sun is known in our company as one of the best in capturing pet portraits so I was surprised with her comment.

She had no complaints about her beloved grandchildren and kids but made me retouch the 3 dog and cat 4 times.

What strated as breezes ended up us a unique custom pop art. Unique pop art for what i went through to create it !!!!!!!!

A chill filled the air as I ventured out on that cool Autumn night. It was routine, another weekend another blind date. Little did I know down custom pop art would be a source of aggrevation. Ok back to the story.
She sounded nice on the phone, seemed smart and was quite cheerful.

Arriving 10 minutes early I sat ordered a glass of red wine and waited for her to arrive. To my excitement she arrived and was actually cute. Dark hair, nice eyes, cute little body… Hm please dont let the other shoe drop.

We also had things in common. She owned a business, as did I, she had a dog as did I and she worked out, a passion of mine as well. I told her I did pop art portraits of dogs from photos she asked if i would do one of her dog. It was set not only would I see her again on a second date but I would get business out of this. Always the capitalist !!!
We said our goodbyes and made plans to see each other during the week.
Like I love sick puppy Im counting the day until I can call her. Tuesday arrives, I call, she doues not call back. After 2 messages she calls and says she is sick and we wil need to reschedule. I call the week after and never hear back.
Bieng the neurotic I am after a month of emailing her 10 times she responds telling me she is in the hospital. After emailing her another few times over the coarse of a month she finally responds that she had a masive tumor in her stomach and just got the biopsy the day before confirming is was non cancerous.
She really appreciated my concern over the few month and told me she wanted to meet up. We agreed to hook up at the dog run.
She looked good actually, I brought my camera and told here I would create a pop art portrait of her dog for her at no charge. She was thrilled and accepted.
After a few cancellations on her part we never hooked up again. She never picked up her dog painting which i thought was amazing. I informed her that I wanted to make copies of her pet portrait and add a caption to it. In an email she stated no problem.

After 2 years of no chatting I email her just to see how she is doing. I get a reply back ” Who told you it was ok to make copies of my dog portrait” I saw him in A store window and am very upset ” My lawyers will be contacting you if you dont tell me how many you sold ”

After all my concern over her situation, she turns out to be a real nutbarr, I had not sold any of the prints of her dog but was freaked about the whole thing.

Morale of ther story dont contact old blind dates and get everything in writing !!!

At Poppizzaz we are always looking for different substrates that are unique and marketable. We introduced the vinyl because it was inexpensive and can be sold at a price that would be afforedable to most. Colours are still vibrant as we use a glossy art vinyl that would brighten any room with a Poppizzaz custom pop art from a photo.

The vinyl can also even look good on your refrigerator. Any flat surface would work, even the floor.
The vinyl is easiest to work with when the size is 30″ 30″ inches and less. Anything bigger still works but we would need to send it to you in 2 pieces for easiest application. Just slowly peel off one side and with pressure smooth over when you are applying on the surface until you reach the bottom of the vinyl. Another way is to peel the backing off the sticker and then slowly apply it to the surface and flatten so no bubbles appear.

If you have any questons we would love to chat with you.

A icon that is still beloved to this day Audrey Hepburn pop art is still selling by record numbers. A few of my customers even asked if I could to a custom pop artin a Audrey Hepburn style.

Nobody can tell me that her beauty and style would hold up today by today standards. Naturally gorgeous and having that girl next door look made America and the rest of the world fall in love with her. You can Actually find some great Audrey hepburn art at www.audreyhepburnart.com

I tell my customers that is they want a really cool audrey Hepburn like style thay should creat a oil painting portraitwith thick brush strokes. We will send you different textured backrounds for you to see and choose from. For some reason I love red when I do my own textured backrounds.

Not much to report on at the Artpizzaz gallery. Working on creating another style for www.poppizzaz.com. I will tell you about it soon enough.

Happy hollydays for those of you who celebrate Passover and Easter which falls on the weekend.

Although the title from this entry seems a little harsh, it’s really just to make a point. Unless you were involved with creating custom pop art portraits from photos you would not really know that not all images are created equally- Some are better then others.

At the studio we constanly receive images taken with an old and outdated camera. The camera you purchased 5-10 years ago does not create the ame resuts as the one you bought 1-3 years ago. Without getting technical your camera has a mega pixel marking on it somewhere. Anything less the 7.5 megal pixels will not be able to create the best results. If you have a 5 megal pixel camera you can set it to the highest resolution and take a picture but still results will vary. Most digital cameras manufactured today have at least 10.0 mega Pixels and will create fantastic custom pop art and portraits from photos results no matter what the setting is. Obviously, a higher setting will have more mega pixels so it best to take photos that you want turned into custom pop art on the highest setting. Anything less the 180 dpi and less then 2000-3000 in dimensions and less then 180 DPI is a challenge to work with.

To find out information about your digital picture right click the image and a box will appear. At the bottom of the box it will show properties. Click properties and ontop click details. You will see both the dimension and DPI.
A custom oil panting portrait can be done in lower Dimension and DPI but like mentioned before creating a digital materpiece will be a challenge.

A little while back a customer sent a 96 dpi pic which was very low resolution. He loved the picture of his family and only wanted to use that particular image- I pleaded with him and explained he would not get a good result. After a lengthy conversation on this matter I gave in and created the image in out Phsychedelica style he wanted. Not terrible as you can see but not our best.

If you need any technical information we always are here to answer your custom pop art questions.

custom pop art on glosse paper

Pop pizzaz is currently working on a more economic line of pop art. Currently we only offer our custom portraits on canvas, either in giclee style or in oils. After experimenting and finding the right supplies Poppizzaz will offer an alternative and less expensive glosse paper format which will include a choice of frames in a few colors.

Lets face it $300.00-$400.00 may be a little to expensive for people to spend on custom pop art. Portraits on paper format will be cost 30-40 % less then canvas and become marketable to a wider spectrum of people. The glosse paper really brings out the vivid colors in each portait for photos we do. We still love our canvas style and recommend it to most people but paper is a superb alternative.

Poppizzaz is still working hard to create other styles that are different, pop, fun and marketable. If you read this and have an idea we would love to hear from you. Brainstorming can be an enlightening experience so don’t be shy and contact us.

At the gallery you will find more then custom pop art. We have a great selection of real oil paintings to choose from. Styles include abstract, Realism, landscape, group and pop art style. We also exhibit some amazing wooden wall art sculptures by Marko Martinez. The golfer, Horse, Violin Man, Hockey man, Hockey Man 2 are all limited edition series and would look amazing in any Home, Office or Hotel. Sculptures are made from wood veneer and unique.

If you live in the Montreal area we also offer a LIFETIME EXCHANGE PROGRAM. Buy any 40 by 40 inch painting for $359.00 and have the ability to exchange it for another painting anytime you want. Great Promotion for those of us who want to keep things fresh and alive. Imagine being able to keep updating the look of your home or office with different paintings every week, month or year, its up to you.

If you have questions about www.artpizzaz.com or www.poppizzaz.com please contact us. A customer service agent will get back to you within 3 hours 24 hours a day 7 days a week.

Creating portraits from photos is what poppizzaz.com. Trying to find new styles to add onto the collection, dealing with artists and customers takes most of my time. I derive a sense of accomplishment when we create a oil painting portrait or any other style that the customers loves.

The other side of the business which takes up tons of time is to be found online. Countless hours of writing articles trying to understand googles page ranking and what to do to get to the first page is perplexing to say the least. Until you have your own web site you will never know what it entails. Which brings me to the “Woman who knew everything”

Sitting in my gallery one day I receive a phone call from a woman who strated off by saying she loved my custom pop art art she saw online but that my website was totally lacking focus, creativity and google search friendliness. Since we lived in the same city we decided to meet. Within 10 minutes of sitting down she started to drill me “oh you are far, far, far away from being found on google….”
She gave me some tips which seemed reasonable but nothing that really blew me away. I listened to her for 30 minutes and then asked her some of the work she had done. She informed me she was a Addword credited specialist. Google by the way generates 90 perecent of their revenue from adwords, but it has proven to be more effective with global brands . She mentioned she was as well starting who own company ” Yes, ive been working on my own website for 3 months now- its hard work but i love it ”
Since she brought her laptop she went to her site. She only had the logo of her site on the page, that was all. I was amazed, here I was sitting with a googleiknoweverythingologist and she was ok trashing my site but yet after 3 months she had only developed some crazy logo for her site !!!.

Needless to say I was not impressed and left soon afterward to get back to my pop art gallery instead of listening to the woman who knew everything !!