Saturday Show Offs # 8 {Mother's Day Sister Painting}

Mothers Day is coming up next month, and Ive got a few things

in mind as for gifts for my mom. So far they are just ideas and designs

in my head... we will see how they pan out. Of course

I will most likely take pictures along the way and share them

with all my lovely readers. :)

But until then I thought I would share the gift

I gave my mom 3 years ago!

This was around the time, I got back into painting.

I MISS painting! And am wanting to try to make more

time to do it.

For Mother's Day 2008, I painted this 

Sister sequence portrait for my Mom. :)

The top Left is My older Sister Mona, then Me

Bottom Left is my younger sister Alea, and the baby sis is Sammy.

I based this painting off of These Photos below!

Mona

Me

Alea

Samantha

And  a little more up close detail:

Mona

 

Me:

 Alea:

Sammy:

Back then I only had a point and shoot camera.. so the pics

arent that great. But I sort of took some pictures of the process.

If you click them.. you can view them slightly bigger.

Here is what I started out with...

I free hand sketched out our pictures.. just by looking at the 

original picture I printed out of my sisters and I.

And then slowly painted one sister at a time.

Drawing and painting myself was the hardest!

I felt like I couldnt get it right.. that it didnt really look like me!

haha But over all I stayed pretty close to the picture of me.

Even though its not the best, I am pretty proud of how

it turned out! :) And my Mom LOVED it!

She was shocked when she saw it. :) 

It makes me smile when I see it.. I LOVE my sisters

so much! They are all my BEST friends!

Now looking back, Im inspired to really step up my crafty-ness

and get to work on another sweet gift for my Momma!

Have you thought about Mother's Day recently?

Have you planned anything special for your Mom?

 What gift ideas do you have in mind?

Also how are YOU planning to spend Mother's Day?

Do your kids or husband normally plan anything special

for you on this wonderful day?

Anything you are wanting or hoping for?

The hubs usually takes the kids out to pick me

out some special jewelry and we go out to lunch.

Its very sweet, I always love it.

Though I wouldnt mind a completely

free relaxing day... with no momma duties.

and maybe some spa time. :) *hehe*