Nirvana (Matilde)

A friend of my mum who lives in Portugal requested a mug for each of his five children.

I asked for their hobbies and interests.

I struggled to think what to do for his teenaged daughter Matilde as I felt she was at an age where some of the hobbies and interests her father had listed would not be her interests for much longer.

Finally I had a brainwave. He'd listed one of her favourite bands as Nirvana and who grows out of them?! So I decided to do my own version of the cover of their album Nevermind.

I did my best to paint her name freehand in the Nirvana font...

The iconic baby pose (without the willy)...

I covered her modesty with flowery bikini bottoms (taken from a selection of photos her father had sent to me) and a tshirt with the Nirvana smiley face logo. 

I think, of all the mugs I've done, this is my favourite.

Chemistry, Maths and Family Guy (Duarte)

A friend of my mum who lives in Portugal requested a mug for each of his five children.

I asked for their hobbies and interests.

Duarte likes maths, chemistry, reading and Family guy. 

I painted his name using elements from the periodic table and surrounded it with mathematical symbols...

Alongside his name I painted a pile of books...

and Duarte holding a smoking test tube. On his tshirt I painted Brian from Family Guy who is striking a similar post with a cocktail glass...

On the handle I painted Duarte's name in the style of the Family Guy font...

Artist (Rita)

A friend of my mum who lives in Portugal requested a mug for each of his five children.

I asked for their hobbies and interests.

Rita likes art so I painted paintbrushes spelling out her name...

and her painting the Mona Lisa...

dressed in an artist's smock and beret...

On the handle I painted her name on paint splatters

World Cup (Andre)

A friend of my mum who lives in Portugal requested a mug for each of his five children.

I asked for their hobbies and interests.

Andre likes football. 

His favourite teams are Man Utd and Sporting Clube de Portugal so I halved each kit using Ronaldo's number from when he was in SCP on the shorts...

and his number from Man United on the back...

I copied a Ronaldo pose from this photograph...

On the handle I painted each letter of Andre's name between footballs...

and wrote his name on the World Cup.