Pierce's portrait

After having people over on Halloween and looking at our house with a critical eye, I realized that we don't have many pictures of Pierce around. Granted he's just a little guy and hasn't had time for too many photo opts but I decided he needed to make an imprint on our home decor.

On a side note, when Luke was about 18 months old I made a graphic inspired painting of him for David's office. When I visited his office the other day and saw the painting I realized he needed one of Pierce too. David fell in love with the picture of Pierce in the Spartan football crocheted hat so I knew that was the one. I altered my original photo in Photoshop, printed it out, traced it to save time (shhh don't tell my students) and then painted it in.

Here is the original photo:



And my painted one:


Since I had the left over printout that showed me what colors I used (and since I have been on such a photo transfer kick lately) I decided to make one for the house. I put green underneath as it was just a color I happened to have. The bottom picture of the transfer was much more distressed. Probably because I wasn't patient enough to really let it dry. I painted over the face with some watered down paint to help it stand out a little. Happy accidents as they say. I love the finished product!