Hey!  I’m Michael McManus and Co-founder of M2 Photo and this is how this all started.

In January 2015 I was with my daughters at a church where they took piano lessons.  While one was taking their lesson, I’d hang with the other in a classroom.  I decided to do a quick drawing on the chalkboard and take a picture of my daughter.  From that point on, each week I’d make a drawing.

Eventually, we created a small chalkboard wall in our kitchen.  Then my wonderful wife gave me a big wall to play with.  This changed my drawings because it gave me more than 45 minutes to do a drawing and allowed me to stretch a drawing out over a few weeks if needed.

If you’re interested in collaborating or commission a drawing please contact me.

Oh and this portrait of me?  Taken by my daughter when she was 8!  She’s rad.