Sunday will be the 10th anniversary of my mother’s death. A few years before she died, when she was suffering from dementia, I took the photo on which this drawing is based. If you look closely you can see that the expression in her eyes is both “with it” and a bit “out of it.”
I owe artist Susan Avishai a debt of gratitude for teaching me this technique. Take a photo, enlarge it, put it on a light box, cover it with drawing paper. Then trace the photo using pencil, pen, markers, and paint.
