This is my sister Lynn. She was ten years older than me and mentally challenged. She pasted away now 20 years ago now. She died suddenly and is missed to this day.
I was recently given an awesome picture of her from my sister-in-law. I never had a good picture of her. Since receiving it I have been working of first this pencil drawing of her, and then this first attempt at a watercolor of her. I really would love to have a really good painting of her to add to my collection of family portraits. I am not as pleased with the watercolor as I am the pencil sketch. I will make another try at it and will up load the another soon.
Some people can be very hard to capture their personality in a portrait especially when you have a lot of emotions attached to them. I know for me it has been both a happy and sad thing working on a painting of Lynn but really want to keep at it until I get it perfect, or at least right.
Happy New Year, Dawn. It's great that you were given a photo of your sister by your sister-in-law. It really brings back memories of the way things used to be. That's one reason I treasure photos as well. I always say they're like a visual diary for me. They capture my life in pictures. You see places you've visited, people you know (or have known). It's really wonderful.
ReplyDeleteI hope you manage to capture the essence of your sister in your next watercolor painting. Sometimes it can be pretty hard to do, can't it?
Have a great day ~