Cuddle Portrait

I just found this photo on my phone of a watercolour I did in the summer that I had forgotten about. Drawn and painted from an old photo - I am cuddling my son and wearing an angora cardy that was so soft. I think I am expecting my daughter too so there are three of us in the picture, I wonder where the cardy went, in one of my too enthousiastic clear outs probably?

Its a combination of watercolour pencils, used with watercolour on pre-stretched paper. The hairstyle was so eighties, but fun to draw in watercolour crayons then paint over in watercolour. I didn't enjoy painting the window as I did it last, probably looked better white. I don't like the pink at all. I really should have done a landscape with a path as symbolic of how they grow up and move away; suppose it would make it a bit sad though. Maybe I'll repeat as an oil and paint the landscape too.

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