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Mar 11, 2014
Media: acrylic
Size: 5x7 in
I'm still raiding our family photo album. How can you resist this fabulous smile. It's larger-than-life. This is one of my grandfather's sisters. He came from a large family, having eight siblings. I wanted to be bold with the background, but that didn't work, so I went with a nice calm green. At least, it's not taking away from the portrait. I think I wrote before, how hard backgrounds were for me. I guess I'll try to be bold again next time. In the end I went with the soft green. I thought of the colors of my grandmother's bedrooms. When I was growing up, one was a soft pastel green. The other a soft pink. It always seemed dated and never changed. Then at the age of about eighty, she painted every room, and I do mean every room in her house white. When I went to visit and saw what she had done, I asked, who had helped her? She told me her niece, who was seventy years old at the time. I'm still raiding our family photo album. How can you resist this fabulous smile. It's larger-than-life. This is one of my grandfather's sisters. He came from a large family, having eight siblings. I wanted to be bold with the background, but that didn't work, so I went with a nice calm green. At least, it's not taking away from the portrait. I think I wrote before, how hard backgrounds were for me. I guess I'll try to be bold again next time. In the end I went with the soft green. I thought of the colors of my grandmother's bedrooms. When I was growing up, one was a soft pastel green. The other a soft pink. It always seemed dated and never changed. Then at the age of about eighty, she painted every room, and I do mean every room in her house white. When I went to visit and saw what she had done, I asked, who had helped her? She told me her niece, who was seventy years old at the time. |
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