Mother and Son portrait
I completed this portrait a couple of weeks ago. It is a lovely drawing of a mother with her son. The portrait was given to the mum as a birthday present from her partner. I worked from two photos for…
Category family portraits
A couple portrait
This is the latest family portrait I have finished. It is of a couple to be married in March. It is a present from the groom to his future bride, both in the picture. The portrait is 50 x 50…
Woman portrait
I have finished working on this portrait last week. It is quite large in size, 50 x 60 cm, painted with acrylics on stretched canvas. The reference photograph that the client provided me with, was very detailed. My challenge with…
Mother and Daughter Portrait
I completed this portrait a couple of weeks ago. It was commissioned before Christmas and it is my second commission for this year. The portrait was square in size and as you can see, it is a selfie. I wasn’t…
Family portrait
This is the latest portrait to come off my easel. I finished it just today and here is the scanned image. The portrait is 25 x 30 cm in size and it is painted with acrylics on canvas.
Family portrait from St. Andrews
I have finished working on this portrait during the week. I have taken a photograph of the canvas and scanned a section of it to show the detail of the main subjects. The canvas is quite large at 50 x…
Wedding Portrait
This is the latest family wedding portrait to come off my easel. It is drawn with coloured pencils on paper. The wedding took place in Portugal and I worked from two reference photos, one for the background and one for…
Family Portrait
This is the final scan of the pencil portrait I have been working on. I finished it today and scanned it. It is always hard to scan drawings, the scanner doesn’t show up all the subtle pencil lines. I find…
Family Portrait
I have just finished working on another portrait. It is a family portrait of a cocker spaniel called Charlie and her owners. Charlie has sadly passed away and her owners wanted a portrait of her and themselves as a keepsake.…
Family Portrait
I have finished this portrait today. It worked out quite well I thought. The scan is looking very close to the original, although I always feel the texture of the paper is really lost in a digital image. I hope…
Update on new finished portraits
I have been very busy in the studio over the last few weeks and I never got time to update the blog. I will be working on a new family portrait soon and I will update this space with progress…
Family portrait
Hello everybody. I have finished another pencil family portrait. I have scanned it today. It is always hard to capture all the detail of the pencil in the scans, but I did my best. The originals look so much better.…