The provincial capital city of Chiang Mai in Northern Thailand is truly a shoppers’ haven, simply due to the wide and varied range of unusual items that are offered here at bargain prices. The quality of the goods may be variable but you still can get great value for money and most visitors fly back home with much fuller baggage than at the time of their arrival here!

The city’s shopping hub is definitely the Night Bazaar in the heart of the downtown area, taking up every evening several blocks along the vibrant Chang Klan road. Here visitors can stroll among the numerous arcades and pavement stands admiring the brilliantly crafted handicrafts.

When walking around the night market area you’ll certainly notice the many portrait painters, which are busy creating a lifelike reproduction of one of the photos given to them by their customers. The portrait painters based in Chiang Mai rank among Asia’s best!

You can find these artists scattered all over the night bazaar but the most skilled and experienced of them are working in the Vieng Ping night market building.

It is truly amazing to observe how meticulously they draw or paint oil colour portraits, sepia colour portrait paintings and black and while charcoal pencil sketches right on site.

The painted figures vary from Northern Thai hill tribe peoples, famous musicians such as Bob Marley and Jimi Hendrix, to price winning pictures like the afraid-looking Afghan woman with the green piercing eyes that was published in National Geographic magazine.

Visitors to Chiang Mai that might have forgotten to get this everlasting splendid and unique souvenir from the night market should no longer feel regretful as now they can get their most precious photographed turned into a magnificent portrait painting via a newly launched online portraiture atelier.

Dutch-managed CmPortraitPaintings.Com offers professionally painted works of portraiture at very affordable fees. They work with six, art school educated, artists creating paintings that could be a copy of the picture they used creating the work.

It was never easier ordering your charcoal pencil sketch or oil colour on canvas portrait safely online at rates three to four times cheaper than those in Europe, Australia and the US, while the work’s quality is of similar or even better standards.

Depending on the amount of received assignments, it takes in general five days to complete a portrait and within 15 working days customers will receive their painting at the address they’ve provided.

A birthday, anniversary, father’s day, mother’s day, Christmas or a wedding, a 100% handmade portrait painting is a valuable and everlasting gift suiting any joyful occasion!