This personalised caricature was a Christmas gift for this couple. It features them walking on a beach in matching his and hers tracksuits!
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Personalised Wedding Signing Board Caricatures
Personalised Wedding Signing Board Caricatures: this caricature was for one of my canvas wedding signing boards for a wedding last December. It features the couple with their interests in GAA, going to gigs, reading, and also present is their pet dog! The hotel they were married in appears in the background.
I got some nice feedback from the customer on it too:
“That signing board you did for me went down an absolute treat- they were thrilled with it, thank you so much.”
Personalised Caricatures from Communion Photos! 📷
This fun caricature from photos with a then-and-now theme was based on the communion photos of the 3 subjects, with the updated versions from more recent photos up above!
40th Birthday Gift Caricature: Queen and her Courtiers!
This 40th Birthday caricature features a Downton Abbey fan with a fascination with all things royalty! She’s presented as a queen on her throne surrounded by her ladies-in-waiting who happen to be her best friends! She’s also a teacher so there’s a wee blackboard and chalk in there too! A complex piece to produce but the customer was very happy! There’s a few little easter eggs in there too that aren’t immediately visible but will be spotted eventually. I love putting in little not-immediately-obvious details because they can get a reaction weeks, months or even years after the caricature has been presented! My personalised caricatures from photos can be ordered online and are available for delivery all over Ireland. My colour caricatures are drawn in Indian ink and colouring pencil, with pastel backgrounds. Customers report that the whole ordering process is very simple. If you have a significant birthday coming up for a loved one and you’re looking for a unique and unforgettable gift, a personalised caricature by Allan Cavanagh is the way to go!
Two Little Girls on Swings Caricature
This caricature of two little girls on swings was a Christmas gift from an uncle to his two nieces!
Caricature of a Dairy Consultant!
One of the coolest things about my job is learning about technical stuff from other occupations. Case in point: in this personalised caricature of a dairy consultant I had to draw a plate meter (the thing he’s holding in his left hand). I’d never heard of a plate meter so I was very curious about what it is and what it’s for! Turns out it’s a device for measuring grass height! It also never occurred to me that grass needed to be measured, and if someone had asked me to do it I’d have gotten on my hands and knees with a ruler and a comb. The customer gave me some details:
“The plate meter has a suspended plate that measures grass height. It converts this height into Kg of dry matter grass per hectare. The aim is to graze the grass at the correct stage. Too high and quality reduces. Too low and growth rates reduce.” I learned something about dairy farming!
The subject here is an agriculture dairy consultant who was returning home to New Zealand (what a good place to be”) after working in Ireland for years. He’s pictured in his work shirt with his company logo on it. He’s got his bag packed for his return trip and it contains a bottle of glenlivit 18 whiskey, running shoes, and a sticker for the Kerry Way Ultra run, a 200km run that happens around the Ring of Kerry! Also pictured are a particular breed of cow and a bag of fertiliser with some Post-It notes! In this instance I even had to get a particular type of grass for the field the subject is standing in, called multi-species. I learned something else! In the background are 26 mountain peaks representing another run the subject did across the 26 highest peaks in Wicklow.
“Allan created a brilliant representation of a good friend. Couldn’t speak highly enough of the end product and delivery was very prompt.”