'People think they are photographs': Incredible sketches done by Shropshire girl, 16, after only picking up her first piece of charcoal in November
A Shropshire schoolgirl has received orders from as far afield as New York and London after taking up charcoal sketching just last November.
Poppy Seabright, from Alveley near Bridgnorth, picked up her first piece of charcoal when she went on a course with her dad Simon just before Christmas.
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Home-schooled Poppy, who is just 16 and currently doing her GCSEs, so impressed her dad with her new pastime, he agreed to sell her work in his craft centre in Manchester, and the orders began flooding in.
“People think they are photographers so I have to keep telling people that they are charcoal sketches,” he said.
“Poppy and myself did this course in Alveley. It was a two day charcoal course. At first she said she didn’t think she’ll like it, but on the first day she brought in a picture of a dog and replicated perfectly.
“We have friends who have horses and dogs and they were impressed with her work they paid her to do pieces for them.
Other people heard and began commissioning her to do sketches.
I put some of her sketches on the wall in my craft centre and we had a lady from New York who commissioned a work and another from London.
“So far she has done around ten pieces for people and earned around £1,000 already.”
He said they have now set up a website to sell Poppy’s work.
“She is getting in two to three orders a week now and think she may branch out and pick this up as a future career.”
You can see Poppy’s incredible sketches at: https://seabrightart.com/pages/poppys-artwork
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