She is able to convey both her portrait subjects’ personality and vitality - this has led to multiple commissions for family portrait commissions and institutional portrait commissions.The hints of my future as an impressionist artist were first ignited while watching my mother paint in Israel, the country of my birth. In her portrait commissions, Sonia is known for bringing out the very best in her portrait subjects. Commissioned portrait artists evoke the best of the portrait subject and their character. Custom oil portraits bring us all together in a way that photographs cannot do.

She is now a nationally-known, top portrait artist and continues to carry on with the portrait artist tradition with clients as near as a few streets away and as far away as around the world. Her adult pastel portrait of “Andrew” won “Best of Show” with the Wellesley Society of Artists. Sonia went on to enter national portrait competitions and has won Finalist awards in oil portrait competitions all around the country in Atlanta, Georgia Manhasset, New York and Birmingham, Alabama for her children’s/ family portrait paintings.

She is also able to paint portrait from photos, as she studied hard in her earlier years and this shows in her portrait paintings, even though they are usually painted portraits from photos. All the top portrait artists of today have studied portrait painting by painting from life. He encouraged her to work from life and this brought her great growth in her work.

She is ever-lastingly grateful to him for his generous nature and kindness in helping guide her with her first portrait commissions. He was kind enough to mentor her by reviewing photographs of her painted oil portraits and later by email. She wanted to learn how he created such incredible portrait flesh tones, as well as a sense of vitality of the portrait subjects and took workshops with him at the Copley Society of Boston and in New York at the Art Student’s League. Sonia is a lifelong artist, who worked at a graphic designer in the Boston area and later was fascinated by top portrait artists’ works, most especially including Everett Raymond Kinstler. Ives Gammell at Fenway Studios in Boston and Constance Flavell Pratt, a well-loved artist Boston portrait artist of mostly children’s pastel portraits. She also studied with top portrait artists Robert Cormier: former longtime president of the Guild of Boston Artists and student of famous Boston portrait artist R.H. Trump and a former Board Member of the Portrait Society of America. Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. Presidents, including Richard Nixon, Gerald R. She studied with Everett Raymond Kinstler: a famous portrait painter of eight U.S. Sonia Hale studied with many top portrait artists. Most ofter her hand-painted portraits are accepted with the smallest of changes to the presented oil painting or no changes requested at all. She is now an oil portrait artist with eight five-star Google reviews and numerous accolades, which can be seen on this portrait website under “Client Comments.” She works closely with her portrait clients and takes careful notes to be sure the completed portrait painting is exactly what her client wished for. Sonia enjoys working with her clients to be sure that they are truly satisfied with their commissioned oil portrait painting. Dhange, founder of a hospital in India and several oil benefactor portrait commissions for the Pearle L Crawford Library in Dudley, Massachusetts. Other institutional portrait commissions have included a posthumous oil portrait of Dr. Sonia’s portrait painting of John Ettling, past president of SUNY Plattsburgh in New York was also recently unveiled. Some of the most notable institutional portrait commissions that she has received include the portrait of Karen Van Winkle, past president of the Harvard Club of Boston, which hangs on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston. She has been a professional portrait painter for 20 years and has completed numerous family portrait paintings and institutional portrait paintings of presidents. Award-winning, professional portrait artist Sonia paints her portrait commissions in her studio just outside of Boston, Massachusetts in Wellesley. Welcome to the fine art portrait artist website of Sonia Hale.

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