This is my father's mother, Dorothy Mae Mackey Dearing. I painted this from one of Dad's favorite pictures of his mom. The greatest difficulty was that it was one of those old fashioned studio portraits that hand painted over the lips and cheeks. So it was difficult to see where the true lip line and cheek structure was. It gave me a lot of pleasure to see how much Dad liked his surprise Christmas gift.
I printed it in two ways: the original color version, and the black and white on brown paper. I liked the way they both turned out.
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