50th Birthday Present Ideas Ireland – Caricature Gifts from Photos

50th birthday presents ireland

This caricature gift for a 50th birthday went out deep in lockdown earlier this year. It features the birthday boy, who is a builder, pouring a pint from himself from a cement mixer! The sibin/speakeasy was a gag that appeared in a number of pieces since the pandemic began!

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Wedding Gift Caricature for a Spanish Couple

Spanish Wedding Present Gift Caricature

This gift caricature went all the way to Spain to celebrate the wedding of the pictured couple. There were some nice details in this one including the traditional wedding dress and the distinctive tattoo on the bride’s ankle! There was some debate about which ankle the tattoo was on and some relations had to be enlisted to confirm! 🤣 Other details included are midwife references and clarinet and trumpet and of course, they’re pictured on a beach!

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Fun Wedding Caricatures during drinks reception in Listowel Arms Hotel, Kerry!

allan cavanagh caricature artist for weddings

Back in July I was able to entertain the guests of Jennifer and Richard in the Listowel Arms Hotel Kerry. It also marked the first time I’d been in Kerry since March 2020, when one of my last weddings before lockdown was in the Killarney Great Southern. It felt strange to be out of the house let alone in another county! It didn’t feel strange for too long though as Kerry people are just the chattiest and I always have a ball there!

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Cork Wedding Entertainment, Fernhill House Clonakilty

Fernhill House Hotel Wedding Caricature Artist Cork 17

Cork Wedding Entertainment: here’s a selection of live wedding caricatures from a recent wedding in Clonakilty. Fernhill House is a beautiful secluded hotel just outside Clon and has amazing grounds. I was drawing in the garden marquee where the wedding ceremony was during the drinks reception and it was such a lovely setting to be drawing in! An ideal drawing situation for me is one where I can talk to the guests as I draw them and I had that on this day, with a large group of guests spectating behind me as I drew. As you can see from the laughter my wedding caricatures go down really well with the wedding guests! The newlyweds are firefighters and there was a fire engine there for their wedding photos, unfortunately I didn’t get a go but it did drive around Clonakilty with them on board! Thanks to the management and staff of Fernhill house for being so welcoming and accomodating, I had a lovely day myself! I can’t stop saying how great it is to be drawing live caricatures at weddings again, I really missed the best part of my career which is meeting and drawing hundreds of people all over Ireland every week!

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