This drawing is one of the pet portraits I worked on last year and just never got a chance to put up on the blog. I completed it in June 2020. It is of Daisy the beagle and Elsa the doberman. Both dogs are deceased and Elaine, my client, wanted to gift this portrait to…
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Pencil drawing of a vintage photo
This is the first commission I worked on in 2021 and it was very enjoyable. There is something about old photographs that I just love interpreting on paper. Graphite works so well to translate old photographs to an artwork. This one is of a man looking over his shoulder. The composition works very well and…
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Son and Father at graduation
This pencil drawing is of a father and son at the son’s graduation. It was drawn based on one reference photograph and was commissioned as a 30th birthday gift. It was commissioned by the young man’s girlfriend. She wanted to give him something special for his big birthday. The drawing was drawn with graphite pencils…
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Bob sitting in his box
This is a portrait of Bob, the beautiful tabby cat whose portrait was commissioned as a Christmas present. Bob was sadly killed on the road last year and the client commissioned his painting as a gift for his wife. They both miss Bob terribly and wanted a keepsake of him in the form of an…
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40th Wedding Anniversary Gift
This painting was commissioned as a wedding anniversary present for the bride in the photo. The couple would have celebrated their 40th anniversary in summer 2020 but her husband sadly passed away the year before. Her children decided to gift their mom a special present of a painting of one of their wedding photos. I…
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Dog and Owner Portrait
After a long break I am writing here again. I have been so busy over the past two months working on your commissions. There have been many, drawings and paintings alike, of all sorts of subjects, landscapes and even houses. This year has been a very strange sort of year and I experienced a very…
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Two Brothers at a soccer match
I drew this portrait based on one photograph taken at a soccer stadium. The client is one of the boys and he commissioned this drawing as an 18th birthday gift for his brother. It was a sentimental photograph and I wanted to capture the connection the two brothers share in that moment in time. The…
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Checky the Lab cross
The painting of Checky was a birthday present to his owner Caitlin. She was celebrating her 21st birthday during the lock down in May. Her parents wanted to gift her something special and since Caitlin is ‘animal mad’ as they described her, they decided to commission portraits of her with her pets. I had a…
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Molly the tabby cat
Molly is a stray cat that visits my client on a regular basis and has become a part of her family so much that my client decided to commission a portrait of her. I worked on her painting back in June this year. I worked from one photograph for the portrait, with some adjustments to…
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Upside down Clementine
This is a drawing of a gorgeous grey cat called Clementine or ‘Tiny’ for short. The portrait is 20 x 30 cm in size and I used graphite pencils and coloured pencils to create a tint in her eyes. Tiny sadly passed away last year and the client commissioned her portrait for her husband. Tiny…