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Behind the Portet of Andy
"It is 1932 and she is graduating from a small town in Iowa. It is the time of the great depression in America - what will future hold for her," wrote her son, my virtual friend
Don Parrish, when I asked him when the photo was taken.
Touched by Don's words that his mother died before the age of digital photos and captivated by the emotion within the photo,
I had a wish to try and create a portrait of Andy in color / Rembrandt pastel, although quite aware that the portrait I'll create will look different from the photo to the left.
With Don's help describing the color of her eyes and hair I managed to portray as close as possible a young lady, ' dark blond girl with blue/hazel eyes", determined to
walk against the wind...
What I wanted to capture is determination therefore I asked for another photo of her from later on in life, the photo to the right... There I saw tenderness.
So, I created the Portrait of Andy by combining the best of two photos: determination from the left and tenderness from the right photo... I imagined and added the
bookshelf to symbolize the source of such personality in a human being, graduation thereof.
I diminished what photographer captured - Incitement, and gave voice to the quietude of her story.
(( This was a virtual gift to a virtual friend who became a Top Ten member of MostTraveledPeople.com (MTP), and was ranked # 5 in the world at the end of 2010 ))
Thank you for visiting globalvenus.com
Venus
*****
Don Parrish
www.donparrish.com
I think Venus has done a remarkable job of expressing my mother's quiet determination
and showing the power of art over photography.
"It is 1932 and she is graduating from a small town in Iowa. It is the time of the great depression in America - what will future hold for her," wrote her son, my virtual friend
Don Parrish, when I asked him when the photo was taken.
Touched by Don's words that his mother died before the age of digital photos and captivated by the emotion within the photo,
I had a wish to try and create a portrait of Andy in color / Rembrandt pastel, although quite aware that the portrait I'll create will look different from the photo to the left.
With Don's help describing the color of her eyes and hair I managed to portray as close as possible a young lady, ' dark blond girl with blue/hazel eyes", determined to
walk against the wind...
What I wanted to capture is determination therefore I asked for another photo of her from later on in life, the photo to the right... There I saw tenderness.
So, I created the Portrait of Andy by combining the best of two photos: determination from the left and tenderness from the right photo... I imagined and added the
bookshelf to symbolize the source of such personality in a human being, graduation thereof.
I diminished what photographer captured - Incitement, and gave voice to the quietude of her story.
(( This was a virtual gift to a virtual friend who became a Top Ten member of MostTraveledPeople.com (MTP), and was ranked # 5 in the world at the end of 2010 ))
Thank you for visiting globalvenus.com
Venus
*****
Don Parrish
www.donparrish.com
I think Venus has done a remarkable job of expressing my mother's quiet determination
and showing the power of art over photography.
