Mom in Key West Hat

My Mom Likes to Sit in the Sun and Do the Puzzle.

She's 84 years old and struggling a bit, but when everything is perfect, she'll look up with a glowing smile that is downright disarming. 

This is part of my series on faces in sumi ink. I'm working on capturing personality in quick gestural drawings that are better at capturing emotion and a person's essence than every little detail.

The prints are beautiful.

The original drawing is 17" x 14" using sumi ink on cream colored Strathmore paper. I print them on 22" x 17" archival Hahnemuhle German Etching paper using pigment inks with a 1.5" border on the sides and a 2.5" borders on the top and the bottom. Just buy a cheap 17" x 22" frame and there's no need for a mat. The prints look like lithographs with black blacks and every detail like the original.