Portrait of my Bug

I found an amazing portrait artist a few weeks ago, amazingly on Craigslist. This artist does pencil drawings from a photograph that she comes out to take. I had portraits like these done for Morgan and Grant when they were 4 and 2 and wanted to have one of Sophie~Bug too. I could not locate the artist who did theirs again, but when I stumbled across this artist's ad on the website, her style looked much like my other portraits hanging in the living room.

So, a couple weeks ago, she came out to take pictures of Sophie. We had both fallen asleep for a little nap when she came to the door. Luckily, it was at the tail end of Sophie's nap, so I just pulled her out of her crib and had Grant try to get her to smile. Her eyes were a little squinty from just waking up and being placed in the sun. And, of course, I did not have time to re-do her hair... but the portrait came out great. This is a photograph of the portrait that she sent to me before she delivered it.



I love that she is laughing at her brother in this picture... and I am amazed at the talent it takes to draw so well.