FAMILY PORTRAIT - Just let it go...

Progression of  a Family Portrait

I started  this painting around a year ago maybe less. I wanted a painting that I could hang over my bed that showed Me and Nelly with  my sisters with there children. It is when we where young and beautiful of coarse!

This will always be a special painting for me because it was made with all my love for them. My family and there kids (And their husbands) are the most special people in the world to me. I feel so bad for people that don't have that family bond. We are not perfect like I said before. We have our arguments. We have a history and we know what buttons to push. But we have learned to let the small stuff go. It is not worth not seeing and talking to each other.  If you have a loved one that you have not seen for awhile because of some dumb fight or stupid thing call them up, forgive them or ask

for their forgiveness and then hold on to them tightly. Make peace.

I painted over a huge painting that I had that I didn't like anymore

Didn't like the faces so I stuccoed over them and started all over

Did the background a bit and started the faces again

More work on the background and faces

Was not sure what I wanted to do with the frame around it. Wrote some words.

I decided that I would rip paper and make a patchwork kind of frame. I smucked it up then with ink and paint

Close up of the patchwork and ribbon

This is the finished painting! I refined everything.

Heidi and her boys Joshua and Kellen

Me and Nelly

Jamie and her kids Isaac and Keely

JUST LET IT GO

Just love them that's all

It's as simple as that...