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'Okay, let's try again,'he said 'What are you?' For the first time...she really smiled. It was a transformation, but not of a kind that made him feel easier; she did not look any less adult. 'You know,' she said. He insisted 'What are you?' She smiled all through her amazing response. 'I am you.' 'No I am me. You are you.' 'I am you.'
Ghost Story Peter Straub

the Sisterhood \ Remembrance | updated 26/02/05

Artists Description and general comments.

Client : Private Commission; variations.
Brief : Portrait commissioned in remembrance of a family's young daughter who had died aprox. 5 years previously. I was asked to age her features and paint her as she 'could' have looked today.
Medium : Acrylic Painting (on Canvas) 100cm by 80cm :
reworked and photographic elements blended in Adobe Photoshop 2005 a.d
Design Notes : Recreating this young woman's appearance really put the hook in me, (having to ask questions about someones sister who has 'passed away' can be quite a head-trip while trying to look at the commission as just another job.). To show family members the suggested changes in appearance I did a photo mock-up (adding a smile, reshaping her face, changing her hairstyle...). I recently blended the painting and the mock-up and got a far closer aesthetic representation of what she would look like. Out of respect for the clients I won't display the original source photos.
Soundtrack (music to draw to): Tom Waits - Alice

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