Pat Millius


Fine Art and Custom Portraits


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Nellie Smith



Mixed Media Paint on Wood Panel



Hughes Wedding 1927



Mixed Media Paint on Wood Panel



William Robert Millius



Mixed Media Paint on Wood Panel



Woodthrush



Mixed Media Paint on Wood Panel



Cudjoe Lewis



Mixed Media Paint on Wood Panel



Marco & Michelle



Mixed Media Paint on Wood Panel



Ada & Nondas 1933



Mixed Media Paint on Wood Panel



Plateau



Mixed Media Paint on Wood Panel



Bertha Auer 1882



Mixed Media Paint on Wood Panel



Flippy



Mixed Media Paint on Wood Panel



Jack & Shirley



Mixed Media Paint on Wood Panel



Quimby



Mixed Media Paint on Wood Panel



My portraits and my process are a communion of sorts. I want to help each subject see his or her dignity as participants in the grand human journey. To help them envision their own ideal self. To help them see the divinity within, or even to embrace their inner demons. I want them to see themselves as part of history unfolding.

And along those lines, I enjoy using old grainy black & white photographs as reference material, and reading between the lines so to speak to see who is there. One of the things I like to offer is to take people’s old family photos and breathe new life into them through paint.

My techniques have evolved organically over decades. Unlike buon fresco where the paint is applied to wet plaster I let it dry before I start. So I guess what I do is called fresco secco with many various forms of pigment.The reason I do this is to surrender a degree of control to the materials, similar perhaps to the way a watercolorist uses the paper to absorb the pigment in its own way at that unique moment.





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