Watercolour portrait of my Friends Daughter with her Friend – Now and Then

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Adult portrait, Art, Artistic, Artistic moment, Artistic scene, Arty, Children portrait, Friends, Friends portrait, Memories, Nostalgia, Now, Now and Then, Old photographs, Original art, Original friends, Original portrait, Photograph, Photography, Then, Watecolour, Watercolour multi person portrait, Watercolour original, Watercolour portrait

Getting one portrait right is hard enough!!!

When my Friend asked if I would do a portrait of her Daughter and Friend together as a special 18th Birthday present, I agreed. Then, she asked if I would do it as ‘Now AND Then’ as they had been friends since the very first day of school. I think I held my breath the whole time I was painting it. Starting one portrait over again is hard enough to bear should anything go wrong, but when I got to the third face I was terrified I might make a mistake. Thankfully all went to plan. This was the finished result. (See thumbnails of the photographs I worked from below)

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Watercolour Sepia Family Portrait from Old Photograph

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Art, Artistic, Artistic moment, Artistic scene, Arty, Memories, Nostalgia, Old photographs, Original, Original art, Original portrait, Original watercolour, Photographs, Photography, Recreating, Self taught artist, Sepia watercolour, Watercolour painting, Watercolour portrait

Family portrait – looking back in time

As an artist- even though I am self taught, I love recreating old photographs onto canvas. The styles of the clothes and hair gave it away as being from another era. Also, from just being an old damaged scrap of a picture, I can enlarge to any given size and take away the years of damage. Recreating memories on a larger scale to enjoy once more!

Oil portrait of a friend’s daughter

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1st Prize and cup winning Exhibit, Best in show, First place, Lady in red, Oil painting, Oil portrait, Old photographs, Original, Original art, Original portrait, Photographs, Photography, Winner of Edgworth Horticultural Society annual show 2012

Watercolour portrait of My Mum

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Memories, My Mum, Nostalgia, Old photographs, Original, Original art, Original portrait, Original watercolour, Photographs, Sepia tones, Style, Style of the times, Watercolour. Watercolour portrait

My Mum when she was 17 years old

I recently did this water colour painting of my mum from a’quite’ old photograph. I think that was ‘quite’ diplomatic – not to give any dates or ages away!!!

Watercolour portrait of my son

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Artist, Artist's Son, Halle Youth Orchestra, HYO, Lookiing back, Memories, Old photographs, Orchestra, Orchestra member, Original, Original art, Original portrait, Personalised, Photographs, Portrait, Son, Violin, Violinist, Watercolour

My little boy!

My son was one of the first watercolour portraits I had ever painted. it was done to commemorate him gaining a place in the Halle Youth Orchestra, playing in first violins, at the age of fourteen. A VERY PROUD PARENT MOMENT!!! I was also quite pleased with the portrait too.

(Also see Watercolour Portrait of ‘That’s My Boy’ with some of His Achievements)