Portraits & Commissions
Great portraits provide a window into the subject’s character and personality.
Whether your desire is to celebrate a love or to honor an accomplishment, I do my best to capture the likeness and the spirit of the subject. I also encourage your own fingerprints, your marks, special items to be integrated into the works when cast. These will carry these forward for generations and centuries to come.
POW Monument Head
Sculpture Portraits may be done via sittings at my studio in Poway, California (San Diego area), or from photos or video. Travel to your location can sometimes be arranged depending on our mutual schedules.
If we create the portrait in person, the first session usually lasts about one hour where I take a few photos and measurements, and we agree on the the style, the and the feelings you wish to convey.
If sculpting remotely, or posthumously, the initial discussions are similar — just provide any images and video. We’ll correspond over email and I will also provide private links to the work in progress.
Prices vary depending on the size, complexity and
Ember meets bronze Louie
medium. A typical life-size bronze bust on a beautifully polished granite base ranges from $5k to $10k USD (see the Matt Bancroft bust as an example). Smaller works, reliefs, fired terracotta are less expensive.
I can also create full body works of any scale or create custom garden and fountain elements, medallions, couples, etc. And I love to do pets.
Since portrait commissions are such a unique, deeply personal gift, and they take months to complete, I can provide a nice commission note for you to include in your special gift card.
If you would like to discuss this, ask questions, with no obligations at all, just drop us an email at: studio@richardbecker.com
Or if you prefer, use our contact form:
Richard-Becker-Contact-Form
I look forward to hearing from you.
Bust of Captain Matt Bancroft
-Richard
References happily provided upon request.
Cheers!
Frank Burger, WWII hero.
Mayor Kile Morgan
Bancroft bust in progress