watercolor, pencil, and oil pencil
12″ x 10″
2013
This is yet another (there were, surprisingly enough, four in all) portraits commissioned this past Christmas season by a middle-aged daughter/son-in-law…..for his/her spouse, and of the spouse’s recently deased father. I thought that was awfully sweet, to be honest.
I never met any of the actual fathers-in-law, but I’ve heard plenty of tales. The subject of this portrait was, I gather, particularly jolly and much loved (and, now, much-missed) by everyone. I do love his posture and his attitude (which, rather obviously, is “Honey?….Bring us another round of bloody-Mary’s when you have the time, please….what’s the POINT of being at the beach, otherwise?”. He sounds like he was awfully fun…..