Grandma Joanie, my mom’s mom, looking stunning in a museum. I’m assuming my grandpa took this photo. Circa 1950s or so. It was a bit hard to capture her more demure smirky look in the original photo (below), but I do like how it turned out. She can be a very tough and sometimes cold person, so I feel the sketch I did catches this other side of her; perhaps I drew the side of her I am more familiar with... Anyways, it was still fun to do. I like the starkness of my grandma with her black hair and dark eyes, and the mirrored look of the young girl in the painting to the left, against the spaciousness of the white walls of that little corner of the museum. The original photo of Joanie in the museum
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