I work from my studio in Kilcock. It is a small room with shelves all around to put my finished and unfinished work onto. I like to give each work a few days to 'rest' before I completely finalise them and email my clients their portrait scans. On this page, you will find more information on how I work together with some progress photos and videos of my process. I discuss the materials I use and how I go about completing each piece of work. Because I work from photographs, I like to share them here too for comparison. You can subscribe to the blog and receive updates 3 to 4 times a month.
This is the next stage of labrador Monty’s and collie Jessie’s pet portrait. I have detailed Monty’s face and chest and added some background in the form of trees and grass behind him. It is a slow process and in the next stage I will be detailing Jessie’s head and…
I started on this drawing yesterday and I have now completed the initial sketch. The pet portrait is of a black labrador Monty and a collie Jessie and it is drawn at 14 x 18 inches (35 x 45 cm) size. I am using Staedtler graphite pencils on Fabriano paper…
I have finished work on the wildlife painting of a sumatran tiger. I worked on it most of this week and it is now scanned. The painting is 12 x 10 inches in size / 30 x 25 cm. It was such an enjoyable painting process, lots of layering was…
Here are more progress images of the sumatran tiger wildlife painting I have been working on over the past couple of days. The detailing around the nose and eyes is just about finished together with the background. I will now concentrate on the ears, chest and rest of the body.…
I started working on this wildlife painting yesterday and I have taken photographs of the progress so far. The painting is smaller in size at 30 x 25 cm – 12 x 10 inches. There is lots more detailing to be done and I will work on it over the…
Since finishing work on Alfred’s portrait, I have been updating the website with all the recently worked on portraits. I have created new pages for each one of the six new artworks and included them on my gallery page. The new artworks include two pencil family portraits, a lovely pencil…
Today I have finished work on Alfred’s portrait. I spent the last three days working on the details and finishing off the landscape. I think it worked out quite well and I hope the clients will like it too. The finished portrait is on stretched canvas, sides are painted and…
This is the stage I am at with Alfred’s portrait. I have painted in all details for the distant scenery including mountains and sky, and I have started detailing Alfred. In the next stage I will mostly work on Alfred and his immediate surroundings.
This is the next step of Alfred’s pet portrait. Today, I have started blocking in basic colours for the background and added some more detailed shading to Alfred’s head and body. Up to this stage, no white has been added into the portrait. I like to start with pure pigment…
I started working on Alfred’s portrait today. Alfred was a beautiful dalmatian that sadly passed away recently. His owners wanted a pet portrait of him in his favourite walking spot in county Wicklow, so there is going to be a lovely landscape background in this painting. The client also asked…