This is the first commission I worked on in 2021 and it was very enjoyable. There is something about old photographs that I just love interpreting on paper. Graphite works so well to translate old photographs to an artwork. This one is of a man looking over his shoulder. The composition works very well and…
Tag: family pencil drawing
Wedding Proposal in Pencil
This is a tinted and graphite pencil drawing of a proposal in the Wicklow Mountains. I worked on the drawing earlier this year. The portrait is 20 x 20 cm in size and I used mostly graphite and black graphite pencils on paper. The tinted areas of the yellow coat and the green hat were…
A pencil portrait of two brothers
I created this portrait a couple of weeks ago. It features two brothers who were very close. The portrait was commissioned as a birthday present for one of them by his girlfriend. I worked from a number of photographs to create a drawing of them standing close together as they always did. The drawing is…
Father and Daughter Portrait
My days have been so busy in the studio over the last three months. I have completed a number of commissions and prepared a series of six drawings for a group exhibition at the Kilkenny Arts Festival. I am exhibiting with Carysfort Gallery there. I am going to try and catch up posting all of…