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Old 05-13-2002, 10:48 PM   #4
Karin Wells Karin Wells is offline
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Location: Peterborough, NH
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This is a portrait of my husband's grandfather's first wife Grace. It is from a very old sepia photo. Her skin and hair coloring are taken from a photo of her daughter who resembled her. She died when she was still in her 20's. Grandaddy soon married again, and his second wife Elizabeth tragically died at an early age leaving three young children.

Grandpa, left with 4 small children, never married again. In his later years, he donated a large chunk of his land and helped the town build a grade school. This school is dedicated to his two wives.

I have been asked to paint Grandaddy (Wellington) Wells, Grace Ewart Wells and Elizabeth Brewer Wells. These portraits will hang, side by side, in the school.

All the paintings will be the same size and I plan to use the painted oval device in all of them.

I really like the Genesis paints and I plan to begin new work with them. They look and "paint" like traditional oils.

Normally this portrait would have taken a couple of months (maybe more) with traditional paints because of the long drying times. This Genesis painting was done in a day and a half!
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