A woman refused to pay her artist friend after she “sexualized” her in the portrait she commissioned. In a post shared to the forum on , a married woman wrote that she asked her painter friend if she could paint a custom wedding portrait for . Knowing her friend’s work, the bride wasn’t expecting anything but beautiful.
“I thought it would be a good one year anniversary gift,” the woman explained. “I have seen her work and she can do realist painting of people.” The artist agreed to a $700 fee, with the woman giving her a $300 deposit as well as a few photos for reference.
But when the woman received the final product, she was dismayed to find that the artist had noticeably altered parts of her body to look more sexy. “She showed me the painting yesterday, my husband looked great but I looked completely different,” she wrote. “In short she sexualized me and I find it so gross.
” She noted that the artist painted her with much larger breasts, and changed the dress so that it was a lot more skin-bearing, even going so far as to add a split to her dress that wasn’t there before. “My wedding dress is showing much more skin,” the woman continued. “She even added a split to my dress to show off more leg.
I don’t look like that in any of my photos I gave her. I find it really gross.” Because of the situation, the woman told her artist friend that she would not pay her for her work unless she fixed the painting, leading to a huge argument between th.