I work from my studio in Kilcock. It is a small room with shelves all around to put my finished and unfinished work onto. I like to give each work a few days to 'rest' before I completely finalise them and email my clients their portrait scans. On this page, you will find more information on how I work together with some progress photos and videos of my process. I discuss the materials I use and how I go about completing each piece of work. Because I work from photographs, I like to share them here too for comparison. You can subscribe to the blog and receive updates 3 to 4 times a month.
This is a family portrait I have been working on for the last few days. I have postponed work on Robin for a moment as this is a Birthday present for next week. I will resume working on Robin’s portrait straight away. The family portrait is 30 x 20 cm…
Below are next couple of stages of the rottweiler dog portrait I have been working on over the last few days. Robin’s portrait is coming on really well and I am now refining the painting with every new stage. I have put down the basic sketch first, then added a…
This is a new dog portrait I have started working on yesterday. It is of a beautiful rottweiler called Robin who has sadly passed away after her battle with cancer. She was only six years old. The client has commissioned her portrait as a present for his wife, Robin’s owner.…
I have finished this white horse painting yesterday morning. It was such an enjoyable painting to work on. The plan originally was to create a subtle landscape background with some greenery, but at the last minute I have decided to keep it much simpler. By just using a soft mixture…
I have progressed on the horse painting this week. Having put down a blue-grey wash first after the sketching stage, I then started detailing sections of the muzzle and head overall. I am using a lovely mixture of burnt sienna, titanium white and a little cobalt blue. The burnt sienna…
I have started working on the new horse portrait today. I have taken some photographs of the progress so far. The first stage is now completed with the sketch and some basic shading down on canvas. The size of the painting is 10 x 12 inches (25 x 30 cm)…
I have been working on redesigning the rest of my website all this week. I am nearly there. I have added lots of new pages of pet portraits finished in the last two months. They include of course my first horse portrait which was a lovely graphite pencil drawing that…
Below is the final scan of the horse and jockey portrait drawing I have been working on for the past few days. It is 25 x 20cm (10″ x 8″) in size, it is drawn with graphite pencils on Fabriano paper. The pencils I used were a combination of Staedtler…
Here are some more progress photographs of the horse and jockey portrait I am currently working on. Next step is to finish off shading of the rest of the horse and background. When this is done I will assess the entire portrait and its tone and I will go back…
I am now working on a horse and jockey portrait in graphite pencil. I have put down the initial sketch and the next step will be shading and tone. The portrait is for a client in Ireland. It is 25cm x 20cm in size (10″ x 8″), on Fabriano paper…