Art Commission - Couple

This is a commission I did for someone I bumped into on the A19 outside Morpeth, and I do mean literally bumped into, (I kind of bumped my car into the back of his and after exchange details etc), he rang me up out of the blue and asked for this commission as he recalled I was an artist of sorts from my card. Doesn't life meander in weird ways!

Still using the reference photo he provided me with, I sketched his parents (he wanted a Christmas prezzie) on A3 cartridge paper , and had to use my vast collection of Derwent graphic pencils (well 4H, 2H, H, HB, B 2B and 4B to be precise). The hardest areas of this sketch was the man's silver hair and the woman's floral patterned top, the latter, which I feel compliments her sketch.

Art Commission 4 of 4 - Skip the Dog

At last, the final piece of my commissioned dog quartet, this is Skip, sadly no longer with us, his owner and my mate marmite (almost rhythms).

This one was somewhat difficult in that I wasn't able to take reference photos like I normally do, and was limited to only one photo. Still I feel I have captured his likeness and this I achieved by using only about four pencils (4H, 2H, HB and 4B - which gives me a great range of tones and shades) on A4 cartridge paper.

I then use this image together with the preceeding three others to compile a "quartet" of the four dogs, and had them printed all together on a white boxed canvas (26" x26") which now hangs proudly in marmite's tea rooms in Stannington (Stannington Nurseries, Station road, Stannington - there you are Marmite a free plug).