A Portrait of a Young Family
I completed this portrait only a few weeks ago in spring 2023. It was for a client returning to me for another commission. I created a number of drawings of her family, her sister and brother and their families. This…
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Sinead and Stephan
A drawing of this lovely couple Sinead and Stephen was commissioned as a surprise wedding gift from their friends. The drawing is 30 x 30 cm in size drawn with graphite and charcoal pencils on paper. I had one photograph…
A Portrait of Parents and Their Dogs
This is one my recent commissioned family drawings. The couple in the portrait are my client’s parents, now deceased, and my client wanted a keepsake portrait of them to display in her home. Her mum Tess loved the outdoors, flowers…
A Portrait of Dad
Back in September 2022, I was contacted by a client from a local area. Mary and her siblings wanted a special gift for their Mum’s birthday and they decided on commissioning me to create a pencil drawing of their Dad.…
Simba the Cocker Spaniel in Two Portraits
I created two portraits of Simba a few weeks ago. Her owners lost her a few months ago due to old age and they miss her so much. They wanted to have some unique artworks of her in their sitting…
Brendan’s Father – a pencil portrait
I only finished this small drawing a little more than a week ago. It is of an elderly man, who sadly passed away earlier this year. The drawing was commissioned by my client Mary as a present for her good…
Two Brides and One Dress
Earlier this year I was contacted by a client looking for me to draw her friend’s wedding photo together with her friend’s mother’s wedding photo. She wanted the two brides beside each other in a portrait. The reason being that…
Jamie
This is a pencil drawing of Jamie, a 13 year old boy, pictured in the portrait ringing a bell in the hospital where he successfully completed his cancer treatment. The drawing was commissioned back in June this year as a…
A Family Portrait of Four
I worked on this drawing back in July this year. It is a family portrait drawing of parents and their two children. Their children live in Australia and they don’t have a clear photograph of all four of them together.…
Two sisters, Nell and Edith, holding hands
I finished on this drawing only a couple of weeks ago. It was such a lovely commission to work on, so unusual having the main characters lying down. The two sisters are so cute in the photo, holding hands and…
A Wedding Couple Cutting their Cake
This drawing is based on a vintage wedding album full of interesting images taken on the day of the couple’s wedding. The portrait was a very special gift for the couple’s daughter. Her husband Frank contacted me and visited my…
Two portraits of parents
I worked on these two drawings in the beginning of July this year (2022). They were commissioned by a client in Douglas in county Cork. The drawings feature the client’s parents, one of both parents at a wedding and the…