I created two portraits of Simba a few weeks ago. Her owners lost her a few months ago due to old age and they miss her so much. They wanted to have some unique artworks of her in their sitting room to keep their memories fresh. One was a painting of just her, looking very…
Tag: pencil art
Brendan’s Father – a pencil portrait
I only finished this small drawing a little more than a week ago. It is of an elderly man, who sadly passed away earlier this year. The drawing was commissioned by my client Mary as a present for her good friend Brendan. It is to be a birthday present. Mary was really happy with the…
Two Brides and One Dress
Earlier this year I was contacted by a client looking for me to draw her friend’s wedding photo together with her friend’s mother’s wedding photo. She wanted the two brides beside each other in a portrait. The reason being that the wedding dress was the same, with some adjustments made to the daughter’s dress. The…
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…
Jamie
This is a pencil drawing of Jamie, a 13 year old boy, pictured in the portrait ringing a bell in the hospital where he successfully completed his cancer treatment. The drawing was commissioned back in June this year as a gift for Jamie and his parents. My clients wanted to gift this portrait to their…
A Family Portrait of Four
I worked on this drawing back in July this year. It is a family portrait drawing of parents and their two children. Their children live in Australia and they don’t have a clear photograph of all four of them together. I worked from many different photos to create one composition. The challenge was to make…
Two sisters, Nell and Edith, holding hands
I finished on this drawing only a couple of weeks ago. It was such a lovely commission to work on, so unusual having the main characters lying down. The two sisters are so cute in the photo, holding hands and sharing a beautiful moment. It was commissioned by their aunt as a gift to their…
Two portraits of parents
I worked on these two drawings in the beginning of July this year (2022). They were commissioned by a client in Douglas in county Cork. The drawings feature the client’s parents, one of both parents at a wedding and the other of just her father from the same setting. The first portrait was commissioned as…
A Drawing of Niall Moran
I was commissioned to create a pencil portrait of Niall Moran, the Irish hurler who played for Limerick, by a client a few months ago. The client really enjoyed the coloured pencil drawing I completed of Donal Og a while ago. She wanted to have a drawing of the same effect for her portrait of…
Two basset hounds, a cherry blossom tree and two butterflies
This commission was a compilation of photographs and ideas that a client contacted me with a couple of months ago. His idea was for me to create a portrait of his two dogs, beautiful basset hounds, with a cherry blossom tree in the background. He also wanted some butterflies in the drawing. I researched images…