Friends’ Portraits

At her forty five Alison is doing nicely – she loved her work as a decorator, really loved it. Although she considered herself to be an amateur artist, she finished art school and felt color and line perfectly. She studied graphic art and was fond of painting more and more. She painted friends’ portraits and other pictures. She even intended to show her works after she left college – it would be great for her future job but she rejected the suggestions due to her shyness and modesty. Alison continued to paint portraits. It was in portraiture that my sister made her first achievements. There was some landscape painting of romantic style and pictures of daily life but she gave up it at the sake of portraits. During summer days she could be seen wandering along the city in search of an unusual face to paint. It became her obsession actually. Of course she would take pictures and after a few years loved to look at her old photographs and imagine as if she had been young and careless. Alison’s brilliant period began after she was thirty two – she represented a portrait of her grandfather who was ninety years old. She seemed to be matured in expressing her granny’s old features – his worn face with wrinkles on it and sunken mouth. However, his eyes were bright and young as if he had been fifty at least. I should add that my sister has her personal vision while painting a portrait – she can give her feelings to people – sorrow, joy, or fear. As anyone knows, a picture is a kind of language with which the artist talks with the audience and very often it is more understandable than a spoken language. Perhaps old photographs helped my sister to become an outstanding artist in portraiture – nobody knows exactly the secret of being a gifted person. The only thing is clear – talent is hard work in the youth. I know you want to follow your friends to the lake, climb your favorite canoe and paddle forgetting about everything and go to disco and dance listening modern music …. But your inner voice is to keep whispering: ‘Work! Work! If you don’t, you’ll get nowhere, you’ll be nothing …

Friends’ Portraits
At her forty five Alison is doing nicely – she loved her work as a decorator, really loved it. Although she considered herself to be an amateur artist, she finished art school and felt color and line perfectly. She studied graphic art and was fond of painting more and more. She painted friends’ portraits and other pictures. She even intended to show her works after she left college – it would be great for her future job but she rejected the suggestions due to her shyness and modesty. Alison continued to paint portraits. It was in portraiture that my sister made her first achievements. There was some landscape painting of romantic style and pictures of daily life but she gave up it at the sake of portraits. During summer days she could be seen wandering along the city in search of an unusual face to paint. It became her obsession actually. Of course she would take pictures and after a few years loved to look at her old photographs and imagine as if she had been young and careless. Alison’s brilliant period began after she was thirty two – she represented a portrait of her grandfather who was ninety years old. She seemed to be matured in expressing her granny’s old features – his worn face with wrinkles on it and sunken mouth. However, his eyes were bright and young as if he had been fifty at least. I should add that my sister has her personal vision while painting a portrait – she can give her feelings to people – sorrow, joy, or fear. As anyone knows, a picture is a kind of language with which the artist talks with the audience and very often it is more understandable than a spoken language. Perhaps old photographs helped my sister to become an outstanding artist in portraiture – nobody knows exactly the secret of being a gifted person. The only thing is clear – talent is hard work in the youth. I know you want to follow your friends to the lake, climb your favorite canoe and paddle forgetting about everything and go to disco and dance listening modern music …. But your inner voice is to keep whispering: ‘Work! Work! If you don’t, you’ll get nowhere, you’ll be nothing …
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