One of them is "The Artist," which is my first painting in 2013.
The other two are entitled "Mom and Babe" and "A Moment with Dad." Both paintings feature a parent and a child, with "A Moment with Dad" portraying a father, and "Mom and Babe" portraying a mother. I completed the former on the 20th of January and the latter on the 8th of February. I used acrylic paints on a 22" X 28" stretched canvas for each painting.
Just like what I did when I painted "The Artist", I had used photos of real people to start with when I painted the two pieces. I found those beautiful black-and-white photos from the Facebook photo albums of my younger brother and my sister-in-law. Of course, those pictures were black-and-white, so I had to come up with my own colors.
I chose a black background for the "A Moment with Dad" painting, and a landscape scene with a blue sky, white-bluish/pinkish clouds, and a mixture of red, green and yellow plants for the "Mom and Babe."
I have added halos around the heads of the father and the child in the "A Moment with Dad" painting to make the figures stand out in the dark background. The lighter yellowish color around their heads made their dark, black hairs more distinct, separating the dark colored hairs from the dark background.
