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.…
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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…
Two basset hounds, a cherry blossom tree and two butterflies
This commission was a compilation of photographs and ideas that a client contacted me with a couple of months ago. His idea was for me to create a portrait of his two dogs, beautiful basset hounds, with a cherry blossom…
Parents with a Church Background
I created this drawing earlier this month. It was commissioned by the couple’s daughter and features her parents together with their local church in the background, which is a special place for them. The portrait is a gift for the…
Two Small Dog Portraits
I have recently worked on two very small drawings. They were each just 20 x 15 cm in size which is the smallest size I work in. I used graphite pencils by Staedtler and Faber-Castell all with some charcoal content…
Large Family Portrait
This is the largest family portrait I have worked on to date. It includes a family of thirteen. The drawing was commissioned as a gift for the grandparents pictured in the drawing with all their children and grandchildren. The drawing…
Elderly Couple
This pencil sketch was commissioned as a birthday gift for the lady in the photo. Her husband sadly passed away and her daughter decided to gift her a pencil drawing of the two of them. The drawing was based on…
Drawings of happy couples
I completed these drawings last summer for a return client. She commissioned two small drawings, both as gifts to her brothers. Both brothers are pictured with their partners and the drawings are the smallest size I work in at 20…
A Man at Work
This drawing was completed last year in June. It was commissioned as a retirement gift and is from the retiree’s (Cyril) favourite photo of his father at work. It was commissioned by his work colleagues at the School of Natural…
Girl holding her godson
This drawing was the last Christmas commission this year. It was commissioned by a return client whom I completed a pet painting in the past. He asked me to draw a portrait of his girlfriend holding her gorgeous godson, a…