Wedding Painting
This is a 30 x 30 cm wedding painting. I worked on the portrait in September. It was commissioned as a wedding present for the couple in the picture. I loved the setting of the photo, the colours work really…
Frisk
This is a small horse portrait I worked on in August. The horse is Afriska ‘Frisk’ and it was commissioned by his owner as a keepsake. I worked from two photos, one for the pose and one for the detail.…
Four Dogs Painting
This is a portrait I worked on back in August. I am still playing catch-up with my blog 🙂 The painting is 30 x 40 cm in size painted with acrylics on stretched canvas. It was commissioned by a return…
Bride and Groom Drawing
This drawing is 30 x 40cm in size and drawn with graphite pencils on paper. I use mostly Staedtler pencils on Fabriano paper with cotton. I use a HB pencil to sketch the initial portrait and then work with 2B,…
Harry
This is a portrait of a lovely bichon dog called Harry. The client commissioned his portrait as a present for her sister and her fiancee, Harry’s owners. The portrait is 25 x 30 cm in size and it is a…
Alfie and Oscar
This is a portrait drawing of Alfie, a black cocker spaniel, and Oscar, a king charles cavalier dog. It was commissioned by their owner as a keepsake. The drawing is in coloured pencils. I worked from a couple of photographs…
Rossnowlagh Beach Painting
This painting was commissioned as a birthday present for the client’s wife. Tom asked me to recreate a photograph of his wife’s favourite spot, Rossnowlagh Beach in county Donegal. The painting was 40 x 60 cm in size and painted…
Boy Painting
This painting was a present for the client’s partner. He provided me with a really detailed photograph so my most challenging job was to make it into a unique portrait. The painting was 30 x 40 cm in size painted…
Bride Portrait
This is a wedding portrait painting commissioned as an anniversary present for the bride in the image. The client, her husband, wanted to keep the same background as in the reference photo. It was a lovely photograph to work from…
A drawing of a flutist
This drawing was completed a couple of months ago. It was the forth portrait I completed for the client. The lady pictured is his daughter who is a professional musician. The photograph was taken in the eighties and the portrait…