Memoriam

This is a water color and line art portrait drawn from memory. I drew my grandfather because of some of his memorable features. He has a prominent nose and ears, always wore a hat and plaid shirts. The hat said "lame and lazy club" on it but I opted to not add text on this one. His eyes are wider than I think they actually were but it's my nature to accentuate eyes more than they're supposed to be realistically. I attempted to draw the first couple of sketches as realistically as I could, this was not successful. The mind does remember things in that way. This was the last sketch I tried, much more loose and gestural. It allowed me to be less tight when I went back to add water color and I like the color being loose and as Rusty would say "water color being water color." If I could keep my water color loose and stress free and combined it with my own more precise line art, then I think I'd had a style that I really enjoy working with.