My Grandmother's portrait

Gesso and Oil paints on Canvas. (I forgotten the size of the painting but it is somewhere slightly bigger than an A3)

The painting was painted as a birthday gift for my grandmother, it was painted within the time frame of two weeks. It began as a phone call my mother made to my aunt on the subject of my portraits, where it was suggested that painted one as a gift. It was our village (root) tradition that the elderly has a black and white portrait either painted or drawn of them to remember them before they pass.

With the mission at hand, I decided to paint in colour as I felt a painting that was black and white was depressing. I wanted a painting that was lively, something that celebrated her life rather than mourn over her death... and I also wanted something challenging as obviously my colouring skills isn't up to scratch. But at least I had fun with the result.

A close up of the face can be viewed here : or click the next button