by Megan on January 29, 2010
I’m so excited! This image is the first of a series of portraits I am creating for my family. My father came up with a wonderful concept to create a large scale family tree on one of the walls in my parents’ home. I met with both my parents to discuss their vision for this project. Together, we came up with the concept of a visual family tree, documenting members of our family at different ages and stages of their life. Face #4 is my grandfather. This is one of my favorite images I’ve worked on lately. In this photo, my grandfather must have been around the age my father is now. I love my grandfather’s glasses in Face #4, and I actually think that my father recently purchased a pair that resemble these. When I create a portrait from a family photograph, I can’t help but try to find comparisons between my relatives then and now. It’s a really incredible experience working on a portrait like this, because you study someone’s face so intently, it’s almost like you’re communicating with them somehow.
by Megan on January 22, 2010
This sweet baby boy was christened late last year, and Face # 3 was my gift to the family. The photograph I drew from came on the inside of this family’s Christmas card. I was so tickled by little man’s outfit, I knew I just had to draw him. He reminds me so much of his dad in this image, I wonder if he will continue to resemble him as he gets older?
by Megan on January 15, 2010
Face #2 is the second pair from the gratitude portraits. What I love about both Face #1 and Face#2 is the inherent history in both the photographic references I worked from. Both of the images depict somber men from a past era. Although both images portray faces with serious expressions, there is a softness and vulnerability in both as well. These images now reside together in the same frame a father and his son.
by Megan on January 8, 2010
This is the first portrait that I’ve worked on this year, and it is truly such a meaningful image. I was asked to create a pair of portraits as a gift of gratitude for a woman who has sacrificed many things in her life in order to care for aging parents and relatives . Face #1 is the image of this woman’s father, a man she adored.
