Tim Brown Portraits

Still with the “family portraits” theme but a slight tangent with this one as it’s a couple of older portraits of my wife’s Auntie Delphine and Uncle Alf, both now no longer with us. I drew them from their 1978 passport photos and enlarged them up to A3 size I believe (it was four years ago and ...

Family portrait #2
A cheeky grin from our youngest son Luca.
Pastel pencils on A4 hey toned paper...

High time for some family portraits!
First up is my lovely wife Nicky, drawn in pastel pencil on A4 grey toned paper...

It's all gone a bit quiet around here lately, hasn't it?
Hopefully this will break that silence quite effectively though, as I can finally unveil probably the biggest portrait I've ever done!
A group portrait, made up of members of a family wedding party, all taken at the same shoot, but compiled...

Well well well....you probably haven't seen much from me on here for a little while, but I've not been idle - here's some new SuperShoes I've recently painted for a poorly young man in Northern Ireland who is going through chemotherapy at the moment....

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, also known by her initials AOC, is an American politician and activist, last November becoming the youngest woman ever to serve in the United States Congress.
Faber Castell Polychromos on Strathmore grey toned paper, A4.

A recent commission for a returning customer, with a stipulation for a "colour cast", which I took to mean...well, this sort of thing. Not full-spectrum, but not black and white. Not too tricky to translate all the colours of the source photo into the monochrome "fifty shades of sepia" I used her...

....and the actual finished piece itself.

Just finished a brother and sister portrait commission, in graphite on drawing paper, and as it's safely in the hands of the delighted customer I can reveal it here on the world wide web.
First of all a progression video/slideshow to see how I did it....