Classical stillness (oil, halo, and painterly form)
Portraits that want to be lived with — serious, unhurried, a little ceremonial.
“Classical” here does not mean stiff. It means the *register* of painting that assumes you have time: visible brush, warm or candle-lit flesh, a sense that the sitter and the room agreed on the shot before the shutter.
Some of the treatments below (Sargent-brushed, gold-ground) are the direction your finished gallery can move in after the session; a few Sargent study chains are still in the training pipeline, but the *look* is available to discuss with your photographer. Use the linked styles as a shared language — “I want the brush to read” is enough to start.
This register pairs well with a slow shoot: fewer poses, more room to adjust a hand or a chin without rushing into the next look.
Vocabulary: artist methods
Short descriptions of the treatments Vela can discuss with your photographer. Warhol method pages on the magazine open in a new reading tab; other families link here as the magazine hubs expand.
Gold Ground Portrait
Magazine method pages for this artist are rolling out. Your photographer can help you name this look in session and in the style catalog below.
Klimt gold-period portrait: vision caption of the source, then FLUX + gold-ground LoRA — flat Byzantine gold leaf, ornament-integrated dress and field, Vienna Secession register.
Byzantine Halo
Magazine method pages for this artist are rolling out. Your photographer can help you name this look in session and in the style catalog below.
Klimt Byzantine halo: BlazeFace bbox (shared Modal) → procedural gold disc / rings / mosaic-texture halo behind the head; optional gold fill in transparent background (rembg chains).
Pattern As Flesh
Magazine method pages for this artist are rolling out. Your photographer can help you name this look in session and in the style catalog below.
Klimt ornament-as-flesh: vision caption, then FLUX with the pattern-as-flesh adapter — eyes, spirals, scales, rectangles, triangles integrated into the figure; optional rembg-based silhouette + lum…
Try the style in Transformation Studio
When you work with a Vela partner, these are the client-facing “looks” the pipeline is built to deliver. Your photographer can match one of these to what you want from this register. Prices and examples are for partner surfaces.