Papa Leon and Biscuit

Commissioned by three grandchildren from photographs, six weeks after he stopped being able to sit for one.

All Every head on file Gift portraits August 2026
The sitting
Client
Private commission
Use
Gift, framed
Medium
Ink and gouache
Size
14 x 18 in
Delivered
December 2025

The family sent forty photographs and one paragraph about him. The paragraph is what I drew from: he fed the dog from the table and then denied it. Getting a likeness out of photographs alone means finding the same feature in five different pictures and trusting it, and here it was the distance between his eyebrows and his glasses. Framed and delivered the week before Christmas.