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…
Category family portraits
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.…
Happy New Year and a brand new Pencil Portrait
I would like to wish everyone a very Happy New Year. I had a lovely break and I am all ready for my new commissions this year. I have completed the first one which was scanned today. It is a lovely family…
Family Wedding Portraits
These are the latest family portraits I worked on for the past week. They are a Christmas present for the clients’ parents. The pictures are from the clients’ wedding. The portraits are drawn with graphite pencils on paper and are…
Bride portrait final scan
Today I have finished working on the bride portrait. I scanned it then in the afternoon, which took a while since it is a larger painting. I had to scan it in six pieces and put together on Photoshop. I…