~~ Just recently I started to do human portraits. My Mother was always the portrait painter in the family. As a child I posed for hours. I never liked her paintings of me or my brothers and yet, now after her death and I have archived her art in my home, I treasure them.
This is a whole new journey for me. Who knew I could paint people? And though I have become known as 'the artist that makes people cry' when I send a commission art portrait of a passed pet to its owner.... I feel like I have caught an essence of a subject for loved ones to embrace. Well, this is just new calling for me to embrace too.
This is a whole new journey for me. Who knew I could paint people? And though I have become known as 'the artist that makes people cry' when I send a commission art portrait of a passed pet to its owner.... I feel like I have caught an essence of a subject for loved ones to embrace. Well, this is just new calling for me to embrace too.
~ Meet Austra, and The Quiet Within Her...
~ Watercolor wash
10 X 12.5 inches
~ Austra is my first human portrait. And she is also my first grandchild and was born in Long Island , NY. So when she came to visit at 8 months old- the first time we were to meet her-I took this photo. She is a very happy smiley child. But it was this photo that I saw the quiet with in her. That mouth of hers that any artist would want to paint in its beautiful fullness and shape. My Mom always said that people look older in portraits and I think that is true. Art images are always an impression and I believe we do not appreciate what the artist captures every time. Maybe it is because our brains have multi images of the people in our lives. But I am keeping this one, already hung where I can have her in my life everyday.
10 X 12.5 inches
~ Austra is my first human portrait. And she is also my first grandchild and was born in Long Island , NY. So when she came to visit at 8 months old- the first time we were to meet her-I took this photo. She is a very happy smiley child. But it was this photo that I saw the quiet with in her. That mouth of hers that any artist would want to paint in its beautiful fullness and shape. My Mom always said that people look older in portraits and I think that is true. Art images are always an impression and I believe we do not appreciate what the artist captures every time. Maybe it is because our brains have multi images of the people in our lives. But I am keeping this one, already hung where I can have her in my life everyday.
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~ Meet Hagen
~ Ink study
7 X 9 inches
Hagen is my youngest son
7 X 9 inches
Hagen is my youngest son
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~ Meet Ashlee
watercolor
13 X 18 inches
gifted to Mom Bridgett
Ashlee is my newest Grand daughter
13 X 18 inches
gifted to Mom Bridgett
Ashlee is my newest Grand daughter