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| | | | | Featuring a happy couple and a vision of their long future together.
2B, 4B, 6B, charcoal and varying sepia toned pencils on heavy watercolor cartridge paper.
16" x 20". 2007.
Unmounted. Unframed.
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 | I commissioned this portrait as an anniversary gift for my wife. It is my intention to have a portrait of my family created every year and presented to my wife on our anniversary. This is our first anniversary and I wanted to have the work done by a professional. It was my desire to have the work be representative of us at that particular time in our lives but also to allow a great amount of creative space for the artist to work with. I want each portrait to embody our energy but also the energy and style of the artist. My instructions to Lis where to use whatever medium she wanted in whatever style she thought appropriate. I gave her a photograph I had taken on our anniversary and asked her to keep us in roughly the same pose. I suggested that she create whatever background she desired and to be as free as she wanted with style. She showed me some of her works and we agreed on a realistically drawn style. I was very impressed with her sketches and looked forward excitedly to my first commissioned portrait. I... | -- Joseph Quinlan, 3/22/07
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