Pre & Post Production: See notes to the right >

Wishing you and your heirs

a glorious holiday season

May your new year be filled with entitlement

and all the finer things expected for a family

of elite status, such as yours.

Diana, Michael, Juliana, Olivia

The Cohenshire's

Pre & Post Production:

After browsing many famous paintings, John Singleton Copley's 1778 oil painting of

Sir William Pepperrell and Family was the closest thing I could find for what I had in mind.

Obviously, it was not "perfect". Olivia was no longer a baby, so the body of the older girl on

the right side of the original painting had to be used, which was difficult to do realistically.

This was especially true around the arms and dress. Each of us posed with powered faces to

slightly minimize the amount of digital face retouching needed in order to simulate the

oil-on-canvas relief and reflection properties of the original. Beyond that, the actual post

production work on each face was extensive. The goal of the joke was to

make it look 100% real. With that in mind, it took a considerable amount of time to achieve

a completely believable "undoctored", oil-on-canvas appearance.