Aarky!

22 x 25cms

  Framed Pastel

'Yes mum loved the portrait! She cried. He's now hanging in our living room. ' 

Jessica

posthumous portrait

Aarky died unexpectedly and Jessica wanted a suprise portrait for her mother on Mother's day. She didn't have many good photos of him.

The original reference photo ( below) wasn't good enough - too dark , blurry and drab.

Not a great reference photo- blurry and flashed out eyes but it was the only one that suited the pose.

I managed to find a photo of his head that would fit on a good photo of his body and created the portrait you see at the top.

Nice photo for his lovely blue coat  but we also wanted to show his lovely green eyes so that's where my creativity came in!

 Usually I'd say it wasn't possible to paint from these photos but I wanted to do my best to create a portrait for them to remember him and the good times.