I was commissioned to draw a pencil illustration of the old school building back in January this year. The drawing was gifted to the school Secretary who retired earlier this year. The school is a beautiful historic building built in 1914. I was contacted by the school principal Stephen. He took a photograph of the…
Category: house drawings
Accepting Commissions now for Christmas 2024
It is getting closer to that time of year when everyone starts thinking about gifts for the special day. I know it is only September but I get very busy coming up to Christmas and ordering early means securing a place on my portrait list. I already have a few on that list this year….
Brand New Gallery Page is Now Live!
I have been collating some of my previous landscape, house and building commissions over the last few days. I put them together into a brand new page on my website’s Gallery. It includes paintings and drawings of places of wedding receptions, wedding proposals, corporate buildings for office gifts, family homes as birthday or anniversary gifts….
Family House Drawing
I recently finished on a pencil drawing of a family home. It was commissioned by the owners’ daughters as a 30th wedding anniversary present. Their mum always wanted a portrait of her house and I can see why. The house is just beautiful and looked after so well. The grounds are quite large with some…
House and Building Drawings and Paintings
I have been asked a number of times to create drawings and paintings of houses, buildings and landscapes. I even painted a construction site! I always welcome the challenge and enjoy working on urban landscapes sometimes to break the routine of portraits only. I decided to put together a few recent drawings and paintings in…
Thatched Cottage Drawing
I created this drawing for a return client a couple of weeks ago. He commissioned it as a present for his brother who lives in the US. They both grew up in the cottage which is no longer there. This is the third portrait I created for the same client. The drawing is 25 x…
Drawing of Rathsallagh House in Wicklow
I have finished working on the Rathsallagh House drawing today. I have scanned it now and matched it to the original. The detailed images below show the drawing at its real scale. I used graphite pencils ranging from HB to 6B and for the tint I used polychroma pencils in yellow ochre, burnt umber, burnt…