Your Best Day
fine art oil portraits
BY SARAH GRIFFIN THIBODEAUX
This is your year!
Come to New Orleans and have your portrait painted.
Stop time for a moment before your child grows up, loses that first tooth, stops painting like a kid.
Celebrate a special event--a milestone birthday, a graduation, an engagement, an anniversary, a big event . . .
Or just simply because you are here and you are beautiful and loved.
Commission a custom portrait of your wife, husband, child, or to remember someone special in your life.
come sit in my portrait chair!
CORPORATE PORTRAITS
Celebrate a career of service with a portrait.
Thibodeaux's portraits are stately and steeped in tradition, yet they have a contemporary freshness that feels new.
A great addition to any boardroom, library, or company headquarters.
See Thibodeaux's work in the public collections of Tulane University and the City of New Orleans.
CHILDREN'S PORTRAITS
Today you are busy. There are socks on the floor and applesauce on your car seats.
But it won't be forever.
In a year these shoes won't fit. The baby curls will straighten.
Let's do the portrait this year.
For keeps.
Companion PORTRAITS
Celebrate your love with companion portraits!
Celebrate your enduring love with companion portraits. These are two separate paintings that hang together in a room and "look at" each other.
These capture the feel of each individual while show your connection to each other.
A lovely way to capture your relationship for years to come.
Mother & child paintings
Celebrate your new baby with a mother and child painting!
Come sit for a painting to commemorate your pregnancy or sit with your new baby for a mother and child portrait.
This is a moment you need to keep.
This painting will live with you as your child grows up and then as a treasured heirloom for generations to come.
Family memory paintings
Turn your summer snapshot into a custom oil painting!
You just took a glorious vacation. Climbed mountains. Hopped trains. Witnessed breathtaking vistas. Kayaked with whales.
Now the photos are in your phone. Or your dropbox.
It's time to take them out of digital storage and create a painting for your wall.
There is nothing like an original oil painting to preserve the feeling of this moment for your family.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Sarah Griffin Thibodeaux is a contemporary realist artist painting in the alla prima style--a painting done in one session wet into wet instead of layers--in the tradition of John Singer Sargent, handed down by generations of master painters.
Griffin Thibodeaux studied at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts with Auseklis Ozols and M. Dell Weller, the Art Students League in New York with Ronald Sherr and the Florence Academy of Art with Daniela Astone. She has studied with contemporary artists David A. Leffel and Jeremy Lipking. She holds a B.A. degree from Newcomb College, Tulane University, in New Orleans.
She has been painting for thirty years and loves her job doing doing portrait commissions, painting live event paintings, leading travel artist workshops, and teaching realist painting in oils at her atelier Studio Thibodeaux in New Orleans.
What folks are saying about their portraits . . .
"We absolutely love it and [our two year old] is quite pleased with it as well! "
"It's so special to have the portrait in our house and I know we'll cherish it for years to come. "
"We've hung it in the entryway to our master bedroom and it can also be seen from our living room as well! The frame is perfect for both the painting and our house. Plus, since it came framed, I was able to have it up on the wall within a few weeks of arrival as opposed to inevitably waiting a year or more! "