This next one is very personal, it's a self-portrait! I was about a year old, I guess and the photo that I based this on was taken at a rental house in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana. I can't find the original picture to show you (two car accidents have forced me to move my art supplies out of the back of the 4Runner and I haven't been able to find some things since.) The original was in black and white, but painting from B&W photos never seem to bother me. It just frees me to use my imagination and choose which colors I like.
The setting is typical of many family photos from the 1960s: a child getting ready for bath time. (Although I think I had just gotten out of the bath and was watching the water drain.) I even had the trademark Kewpie doll pointed hair in the photograph and I included it in the painting. People don't take pictures like this very much now because it's not p.c. (or they print them on their home computers. ) Too bad, I think they are adorable. And this picture brings back great memories of a wonderful childhood. I even remember some of the bath toys I had as a kid.
Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear, Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair...
I did have some fun when I finished this one. I had it turned backwards and announced to family that I had finished my "first nude self-portrait" and was proud to show it to everyone. They were stunned into silence but had a good laugh when I turned the painting around.
I took the picture below of my nephew when he was a baby. He's now in his 20's. I know I want to paint it someday. Adorable, adorable! (But then, I'm prejudiced.) He has a little boy now who looks just like that.
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