The Portrait of 230 Horne Street

This piece measures 20 in x 18 in.  It is drawn with archival sepia ink on a natural 80lb Strathmore paper.  Their are subtle highlights added with white Prismacolor pencils.

This original drawing was commissioned by Charlotte Cotton, who also happens to be my mother   This [...]]]>

The Portrait of 230 Horne Street

This piece measures 20 in x 18 in.  It is drawn with archival sepia ink on a natural 80lb Strathmore paper.  Their are subtle highlights added with white Prismacolor pencils.

This original drawing was commissioned by Charlotte Cotton, who also happens to be my mother   This is the house I was raised in.  This is the house that my single mother bought by herself.  This is the house that is tied to all of my childhood memories, and this is the house that will soon be sold to some other family.  It is enough to make my heart ache with sweet nostalgia. Gone are the days when my only responsibilities were washing the dishes or cooking dinner for our hard-working Mama. The days of birthday sleepovers of 15 girls and Jeff (my poor male cousin), the days of after school porch parties, the days of laying out in our bathing suits in the front yard – they are all merely memories now.