COMMISSIONED PORTRAITS IN GRAPHITE, CHARCOAL & WATERCOLOR
A person, a presence, a moment that matters — original works, created entirely by hand from your reference photographs. One-of-one, never a print or reproduction.
Each piece is drawn in archival graphite, high-density charcoal, watercolor, or sanguine on museum-grade cotton paper — capturing the subject in its truest, most faithful form. Every work is matted and framed to museum standard, ready to hang — a private collaboration, made to last generations.
Operating from the Houston studio, with insured worldwide shipping. A limited number of commission slots are reserved each season, by private reservation.
Explore the studio samples on this page to find the style and scale for your piece.
See the detailed pricing table and available dimensions at the bottom of the page.
CHARCOAL
Female Figurative Portrait
"She offers no sanctuary. The gaze is unblinking, blistering — every rational thought settling like ash across the freckled face. Crowned in the dark gravity of her hair, she holds absolute dominion over the room she's in. This is not a portrait that asks to be liked. It is one that refuses to look away first."
An original charcoal portrait — head and shoulders, rendered in semi-blended tones on archival cotton paper. Artwork 18 × 24 in; framed 24 × 30 in, delivered ready to hang.
sepia TONES
female figurative portrait
"The old wood still holds the drowsy warmth of the sun. I am standing at the threshold, a cool glass in my hand, and time has stopped turning — because you are there, caught in the gentle sway of the hammock. Knees drawn up, your gaze lost where the sky bleeds into the sea. But it's the corner of your mouth that undoes me — the ghost of a smirk, a knowing curve holding a secret the ocean itself couldn't guess. The dreamer and the conspirator, the serene saint with a beautiful, private joke. The ice in my glass has never melted. You have never looked away."
An original female figurative portrait rendered in warm sepia tones on archival cotton paper. Artwork 14 × 18 in; framed 20 × 24 in, delivered ready to hang.
graphite
Male portrait
"A male portrait demands a different dialogue with the paper — heavier architecture, sharper angles, denser corridors of shadow. The intensity is quieter here, held rather than declared. Strength rendered not as force, but as stillness."
An original portrait in graphite on archival cotton paper. Artwork 12 × 18 inches; framed 18 × 24 inches, delivered ready to hang.
GRAPHITE & WATERCOLOR
Female Portrait
"She emerged from the steam not cleansed, but baptized in a heavier truth. The white linen wrapped about her head was no longer simple cloth — it was a crown of domestic exile, worn with the distracted grace of a queen who has lost her country but kept her pride. She looks away from the mirror, refusing to meet her own eyes, fixing her gaze instead on the cold, indifferent light from the window. The delicate strap on her shoulder holds the weight of a gown that feels less like silk than a shroud for the woman she was yesterday."
An original work in graphite, finished with watercolor washes applied over the drawing to pull the light, on archival cotton paper.
sepia tones
Female portrait
"In her face, still flushed with the day's heat, there is no vanity — only a profound, simple peace. Her beauty asks for nothing, for it is everything: the toil of the harvest and the grace of a goddess made one. In that moment he knows that all the sunsets and vineyards he has ever loved were merely crude rehearsals for the breathtaking, living truth of her."
An original head-and-shoulders portrait in warm sepia tones on archival cotton paper.
GRAPHITE & WATERCOLOR
Female Half-Figure
"Not a back, but the pale architecture of a spine against a gathering storm of shadow. Not silk, but a liquid void peeling from the skin in a silent cascade. The moment is a fever — the electric instant of the fall, caught not in soft lines but in the beautiful violence of the smudge. A gasp made visible. A madness that clings to the retina long after you look away."
An original full figure in graphite on archival cotton paper. Artwork 18 × 24 inches; framed 24 × 30 inches, delivered ready to hang.
CHARCOAL
Female Full Figure
"She is a storm dressed in the delicate wreckage of a memory. Wrapped in a web of lace that holds her like a fragile vow, she turns — not to leave, but to burn the bridge with a single unyielding glance. Her hair is a cascade of midnight, a wild dark gravity pulling the light into its depths. This is the moment elegance fractures into wildness — a soul too vast for the silk that binds it, staring back from the edge of a dream you are terrified to wake from."
An original full figure in semi-blended charcoal on archival cotton paper. Artwork 22 × 30 inches; framed 26 × 34 inches, delivered ready to hang.
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THE COMMISSION
Each work is hand-drawn to order and arrives framed, ready to hang.
12 × 18 — from $2,800
14 × 18 — from $3,100
16 × 20 — from $3,400
18 × 24 — from $3,800
19 × 27 — from $4,400
Larger and multi-subject works are quoted privately.