caricatures

40th wedding anniversary gifts for parents!

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Caricature ruby anniversary gifts Ireland

40th wedding anniversary gifts for parents (Ruby Anniversary) Want to order a 40th wedding anniversary gift caricature for your parents? Simply click Add to Cart below. Framed A3 caricature anywhere in Ireland is €280. For more options visit my order caricatures online page. I really enjoyed drawing this one. Nope it’s not a hipster wedding … Read more

Family Caricature – Seven Grandchildren!

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family caricature of seven children playing sports
This family caricature was commissioned last week. It had a very tight turnaround time but I pulled out all the stops and got it done and delivered in jig time! Each child is portrayed playing their favourite sport, which went down very well with the client. There’s football, hurling, swimming, horse riding, Taekwondo, cricket, and gymnastics. I liked the details I got to include in it.
Star Wars logo drawing with Chewbacca
Yes that’s Chewbacca you see there, and there’s a Wonder Woman t-shirt in there too!
framed family caricature by Allan Cavanagh with 7 children playing sports

This is the finished piece framed. It was an A2 piece so bigger than my scanner can handle, hence the top image is partially in shadow as it’s a photo rather than a scan. All the frames for my caricatures are hand made with great care by Mark in the Framing Loft here in Galway.

My caricatures make ideal birthday presents, especially if there’s a big brood of grandkids, so drop me a line if you’d like to know more about my family caricatures! You can leave a comment below or head over to my contact page. I deliver all over Ireland and the UK.

New Doctor, or “The Female Doctor Who” – Jodie Whittaker as the 13th Doctor

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Cartoon caricature of New Doctor Jodie Whittaker by Allan Cavanagh
I haven’t watched any of the current series of Doctor Who but the introduction of the new Doctor gave me chills. Here it is as broadcast by the BBC:


The thing with the key is new, and exciting. By the way, of course an alien who can regenerate at the cellular level from a species with at least 2 biological sexes could come back as a woman. Yes, I’m talking about the Master. If your arch-nemesis changes sex during a regeneration, what’s a man to do? I’m wondering if Jodie’s is a new face, or is she someone the Doctor has met? There’s precedent for that too! Lastly, Eleven thought he might have regenerated as female after he came into being. This isn’t such a shock. You can use any toilet you like on Gallifrey.

Anyway, would you like to win the original drawing pictured above? Just comment below and if there’s enough interest I’ll do a draw (no pun).

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Gift Caricature marking first Transatlantic Flight from Cork Airport!

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Gift Caricature of man in Norwegian Airlines plane waving an American flag by Allan Cavanagh
This was a gift caricature for the head of communications in Cork Airport to mark the first direct transatlantic flight from Cork Airport last month. It was a tight turnaround (this things usually are) but I got it there in plenty of time and the client was delighted. An historic day for Cork too, making it the first port of call for lots of tourists flying in from across the Atlantic. Maybe they’ll get to order a gift caricature from me while they’re here! If you’d like to order a gift caricature you can visit my Caricature Gift Order page.

Aviation history was made at Cork Airport today with the departure of Norwegian flight D81821 from Cork to Boston/Providence – the airport’s first ever scheduled transatlantic service.

The new transatlantic service will operate three times per week, linking the South of Ireland region to the Greater Boston, Rhode Island and New England areas. The long-awaited opening of the new route will lead to greater travel, trade and tourism between the two regions.

Speaking at the inaugural ceremony, Niall MacCarthy, Managing Director at Cork Airport, thanked the team at Norwegian for partnering on the long and hard journey to deliver new direct transatlantic service from Cork to Boston Providence. “I would like to thank especially all of our stakeholders, on both sides of the Atlantic, who assisted us with their support to secure the granting of the licence,” he added.

“I also want to acknowledge the wider team here at Cork Airport, across our own and many companies, who work seven days a week, fifty two weeks of the year, to deliver outstanding customer service to all of our passengers. I am proud to say that this great service from all our staff was recognised recently when Cork Airport won the ‘Best Airport in Europe’ award of its class at the Airport Council International Congress in Paris earlier this month.

“The official history of Cork Airport was last published in 2011 in a book entitled ‘Fifty Years Have Flown’. Today I am very proud to say that a new chapter can be added to that book and Cork Airport is now Ireland’s and Europe’s newest transatlantic airport.

Staff Parties – Live Caricatures from Avvio Summer BBQ, Limerick Strand Hotel!

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Smokey Caricatures!

Had a great night in the Limerick Strand Hotel with the staff of Avvio. They were enjoying a Summer BBQ and of course who better for staff parties than a hape of caricatures by Allan Cavanagh, drawn on the spot in 3 minutes!

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Canvas Signing Boards for Weddings!

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Canvas signing boards for weddings

Canvas signing boards for weddings are a unique, fun, and highly personalised alternative to wedding guestbooks. I create a caricature from your photos and descriptions of dresses/suits, your hobbies, work, pets, (or any other reference you’d like included!) The newlyweds pictured are a teacher and electrician respectively, as you can probably ascertain! I’ve drawn everything … Read more