A lot of business offices and hotels will display the works of famous portrait artists. If you are lucky enough to have your work hanging up in a hotel lobby or on the walls of some prestige businesses, you will truly know you have made it. Portrait artists work hard and often for very little reward, sometimes, life can be pretty hard for portrait artists.
Perhaps it is hard for the portrait artists to make a decent living for themselves or their family because for many years a long time ago, having your portrait painted was only for the very wealthy and famous people.
Today with the help of modern technology it is no longer the case that only the wealthy can sit for portraits. Maybe it’s because with the help of digital photography and artists can work in their own home at their own pace using the image taken from a digital camera.
Because when you take a picture with a digital camera, you can see the image straight away you the consumer will know if you want to use that picture for your portrait or not. If you don’t like it, its ok because all you need to do, is simply press the delete button on the camera and take another photo. Long gone are the days of taking a photo and having to wait days for the film to be developed just so you can check if it is suitable to use. Perhaps that is one of the sad things about digital cameras as well. It seems that these days, we can see instantly our images that have been captured, we either delete them or we simply forget about their existence all together.
In fairness though even with
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