50th Anniversary Present

30x40", Acrylic

This Fall is my parents' 50th wedding anniversary. I decided to paint a portrait for them of John & I with my sister and her daughters.
Do you know how hard it is to get good reference photos with a camera on timer and 2 of the 5 people not liking to get their photo taken? And then everyone looked their best in a different photo. So I had to merge together several photos. Despite that and the tight time schedule for this painting, I'm very pleased with how it turned out.